 Rodney Thomson, BEng (Aero), PhD
Program Manager - Design and Analysis
Dr Rodney Thomson has over 18 years of research and development experience in the design and analysis of composite structures for aerospace, maritime, automotive and oil & gas applications. In that time, he led and managed research and commercial projects in low and high energy impact, helicopter crashworthiness testing and simulation, bird-strike simulation, optimisation algorithms for composites, low-cost composites for automotive applications and improved computational methods for predicting failure of composite structures. He led long-standing research collaborations with Airbus, the German Aerospace Centre and the US Naval Research Laboratories, as well as the CRC‑ACS contribution to the European Union 6th Framework Program COCOMAT. He has over 70 journal and conference publications and has contributed two book chapters.
Rodney is currently a Program Manager at ACS Australia, managing contract R&D activities with major international companies. He is also Program Leader for Simulation and Systems Development at the CRC-ACS.
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