Adrian Murphy is Professor of Aeronautical Engineering at Queen’s University Belfast. His research expertise lies in developing predictive models, design methods, and optimisation strategies for complex, interdisciplinary and multiphysics design problems. He has led and collaborated on a broad range of projects developing new methods for structural design and integrity assessment, predicting in-service and extreme event loads, design approaches for novel materials and manufacturing processes, integrating financial, supply chain and whole life aspects into optimisation workflows, and experimental approaches for model verification and design certification. This has involved collaborating with a broad range of disciplines, across engineering, material and computer science, sustainability, business and finance, to develop solutions for design challenges for a range of industrial sectors including aerospace, automotive and energy production. He has published over two hundred journal and conference articles, and has secured and managed funding from the full range of competitive sources, including a significant number of projects on novel aerospace structural designs, manufacturing approaches and material systems. Much of this research has been in collaboration with industry enabling significant experimental validation of his work and the integration of manufacturing, cost and whole-life analysis. He was a winner of the IMechE Thomas Hawksley medal in 2006, the Kenneth Harris James Prize 2006 and SAGE Best Paper Award 2012 (Journal of Materials: Design and Applications). He chairs the Royal Aeronautical Society Structures and Materials Specialist committee, is a member of the ESDU Aerospace Structures Committee and IMechE Aerospace Materials & Structures Technical Activity Committee. 

Adrian joined the staff of Queen's in 2002; he has a Masters degree in Aerospace Vehicle Design from Cranfield University and an Aeronautical Engineering Bachelors degree and PhD from Queen's University Belfast.

Professor Murphy’s research interests are focused on developing predictive models, design methods, and optimisation strategies for complex, interdisciplinary and multiphysics design problems. 

His key research interests can be divided into general but interconnected categories:

• Structural design and manufacturing
• Optimisation strategies for complex, interdisciplinary and multiphysics problems
• Multi-physics simulations for design

Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (FIMechE, 2016), Chartered Engineer (CEng, 2008), Member of the Royal Aeronautical Society (MRAeS, 2004), PGCHET (Queen's University Belfast, 2004)