Carol Featherston

Carol holds a Chair in Lightweight Structures at Cardiff University School of Engineering where she has worked for over 20 years. Prior to joining the university she worked for British Aerospace and ICI Chemicals, completing a PhD with Rolls Royce looking at aeroengine fan blades. She leads the School of Engineering’s Sustainable Transport Research Theme, which examines all aspects related to decarbonising the transport sector, including vehicles, infrastructure and smart mobility. Her research focusses on the design and optimisation of lightweight structures and the development of autonomous structural health monitoring systems for diagnosis and prognosis of damage.