Dr. Rehan Umer received his PhD degree from The University of Auckland, New Zealand in 2008. He then worked as a Research Engineer at CRC and Airbus Helicopter, Brisbane, Australia. He started his postdoctoral research career at the Composite Vehicle Research Center (CVRC), Michigan State University, USA on polymer composites processing. In 2012, he was hired as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, UAE. He is the co-founder of the Aerospace Research and Innovation Center (ARIC), a 15 million dollar joint venture between Khalifa University and Mubadala Aerospace.
After spending five years at KUSTAR, he joined the University of Southern Queensland, Australia as Senior Research Fellow, and returned to the newly merged Khalifa University of Science and Technology as an Associate Professor of Aerospace Engineering. Dr. Umer鈥檚 research has been focused on advanced composites manufacturing covering both experimental and modeling studies. Dr. Umer has several industrial collaborations including, Strata, Solvay, Boeing, GE, US Army, and NLR, Netherlands. 聽Dr. Umer has two books, authored and co-authored many papers in refereed journals, book chapters, US patents and presented at a number of international conferences. Dr. Umer鈥檚 research interest is in Liquid composites molding (LCM), Pultrusion, Filament winding, multifunctional nano-composites, Automated fiber placement (AFP), lightweight lattice sandwich structures, and Industry 4.0.
