Introduction

Ann Dowling is Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Director of the University Gas Turbine Partnership with Rolls-Royce, and Head of the Division in which research in aeronautics and energy is carried out in the University of Cambridge. She has held visiting posts at MIT (Jerome C Hunsaker Visiting Professor, 1999) and at Caltech (Moore Distinguished Scholar 2001). Ann Dowling works primarily in the fields of combustion, acoustics and vibration and her research is aimed, in particular, at low-emission combustion and quiet vehicles. She is the UK lead of the Silent Aircraft Initiative, a collaboration between researchers at Cambridge and MIT who have released the conceptual design of an ultra-low noise and fuel efficient aircraft, SAX40.

Ann Dowling is a Fellow of the Royal Society, Royal Academy of Engineering (Vice-President 1999-2002) and is a Foreign Associate Member of the US National Academy of Engineering and of the French Academy of Sciences. She serves on a number industry and government advisory committees, and chaired the EPSRC Technical Opportunities Panel (2003-06) and the Royal Society/Royal Academy of Engineering study on nanotechnology. She was appointed CBE for services to Mechanical Engineering in 2002 and DBE for services to Science in 2007.

Research

Areas of research of include: Acoustics and the Silent Aircraft Initiative.

Publications

A list of some of Professor Dowling's recent publications are available here.

Undergraduate Teaching

Professor Dowling's Teaching notes are available from here.

Contact Information