Dr Rafic Ajaj BSc, MSc, PhD, FHEA
Visiting Academic in Aerospace Structures
Dr Rafic Ajaj is a Visiting Academic in Aerospace Structures within the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department at the University of Southampton. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the United Arab Emirates University, UAE.
Dr Rafic Ajaj joined the department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at the University of Southampton on September 2013. His main research is focused on morphing aircraft and on developing adaptive and smart structural concepts that facilitate wing shape transformations. Currently, he is working (with Airbus Operations) on utilising folding wingtips for loads alleviation on large transport aircraft and he filed a patent with Airbus on this topic. Before joining Southampton, he worked as a lecturer in Aerospace Engineering for 3 months at Swansea University. He also worked as a researcher at the University of Bristol, Swansea University and Bauhaus Luftfahrt eV in Germany.
