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Sunil BUDHDEO

Coventry City Council

Transport Innovation Manager - Transport & Infrastructure

Sunil BUDHDEO

Coventry City Council

Transport Innovation Manager - Transport & Infrastructure

Sunil has over 35 years’ experience in the Traffic, Transport and ITS Industry. His current role as the Transport Innovation Manager at Coventry City has helped in development of new technology for transportation. Now venturing into the latest mode of transportation of Electric-Vertical Take Off and Landing (E-VTOL). Joined Coventry City council in 2010 as UTMC Manager, responsible for the UTMC, Highway Network Development team and Managing the Response and Monitoring services. Lead advisor for Local Authorities in developing urban Air Mobility.

Giampaolo BUTICCHI

University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Vice Provost for Research and Knowledge Exchange, Professor in Electrical Engineering (Power Electronics, Machines and Drives)

Giampaolo BUTICCHI

University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Vice Provost for Research and Knowledge Exchange, Professor in Electrical Engineering (Power Electronics, Machines and Drives)

Giampaolo Buticchi's research focuses on power electronics for renewable energy systems, smart transformer fedmicro-grids and grids for theMore Electric Aircraft, Hethan 300 internationais authorco-author ofMOreneer-reviewed paners in the reference lournals and conferences for nower electronics, Prof Buticchi is an Associate Editor of the lEEE Transactions of Industrial Electronics and the past Chair of the Technical Commitee onRenewable Energy Sources of the lEEE Industrial Electronics Society. He is named in the world's top 2% ofscientists list by the Stanford-Elsevier report for 2021 and 2022, he is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society(RAeS), a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and he is the first UNNC academic to be elevated toFellow of the institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).

Laura Bishop

University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Vice Provost for Research and Knowledge Exchange of UNNC

Laura Bishop

University of Nottingham Ningbo China

Senior Vice President

Professor Laura Bishop is the Vice Provost for Research and Knowledge Exchange at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from Yale University. Prior to joining UNNC, she was a Professor of Palaeoanthropology and Pro-Vice Chancellor for the Faculty of Science at Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU). In this role since 2022, she had strategic and operational leadership of the Faculty of Science at LJMU. Prof Bishop was the Principal of the Sino-British College (SBC) of the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology from 2018 to 2021. Her leadership and influencing skills helped steer SBC successfully through a complex and challenging period of change. Prof Bishop is an active advocate for internationalization in higher education. Having worked with the UK-China Joint Institute Alliance and served on the Executive Committee of the British Chamber of Commerce (Shanghai), she has excellent knowledge of the landscape of higher education in China, and of the trends which will both challenge and catalyse UNNC’s research and knowledge exchange. Prof Bishop is the author of more than 60 scholarly publications. Her research explores the environmental contexts of the evolution of human behaviour in Africa, with a focus on the interpretation of the dynamic aspects of hominin evolution, particularly behaviour and ecology.

DAVID ALEXANDER BAUSEK

Wanfeng Aircraft Industry Co., Ltd Diamond Aircraft Industries GmbH

Global Technical Director

DAVID ALEXANDER BAUSEK

Wanfeng Aircraft Industry Co., Ltd Diamond Aircraft Industries GmbH

Global Technical Director

Mr. Bausek has started his aviation career as design and production engineer in 2006. His strong passion for engineering and his innovation drive helped him to continue his career and to develop the DA50 (certified, 5 seated, single engine aircraft) acting as chief engineer. He stayed in General aviation and developed and certified the DA62 (certified, 7 seated, twin engine aircraft) as chief engineer and program director. The DA62 won several awards and is the leading, most innovative and best selling twin engine aircraft in the general aviation market. From 2017 to 2021 Mr. Bausek was acting as Head of Production Organization and EASA Accountable Manager responsible for all production within Wanfeng-Diamond Austria. Since 2021 he is located in China and successfully established till 2023 a new factory in Qingdao from greenfield acting as CEO. Mr. Bausek continued at all times his responsibility for the innovation within Wanfeng-Diamond Aircraft and is since 2020 working with multiple automotive partners on vertical e-mobility. To facilitate the general aviation and vertical e-mobility in Chinas lower airspace economy he is acting as global technical director and led the vertical e-mobility solution development form Wanfeng-Diamond Aircraft. Mr. Bausek holds a master degree in aviation and a master degree in innovation management. He is leading since more than 10 years many university-industry cooperation projects and is teaching since more than 15 years on universities and has supervised more than 60 master and bachelor thesis.