Biography: 

John-Alan Pascoe is an assistant professor at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering of TU Delft. John-Alan's research focuses on certification, fatigue, and damage tolerance of aerospace structures and materials. Together with his team of PhD candidates, MSc thesis students, and post-docs, John-Alan seeks to better understand the physics of damage in structures and materials, using this understanding to create faster and more efficient certification routes for the existing and emerging material and structural concepts, which are needed for sustainable aviation.

About TU Delft:

Delft University of Technology is the oldest and largest university of technology in the Netherlands. Its Faculty of Aerospace Engineering is one of the world’s most highly ranked (and most comprehensive) research, education and innovation communities devoted entirely to aerospace engineering. More than 200 science staff, around 300 PhD candidates and almost 3000 BSc and MSc students apply aerospace engineering disciplines to address the global societal challenges that we face today. The Faculty’s focal subjects include: sustainable aerospace, big data and artificial intelligence, bio-inspired engineering and smart instruments and systems. A core value of the Faculty is collaboration; with partners in other faculties, knowledge institutes, governments and industry, both aerospace and non-aerospace. This collaboration take additional shape in field labs and innovation hubs on the campus and beyond, to deliver impact for a better society.