Rate My Professor Mark Price

Professor Mark Price is Professor of Aeronautics in the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Queen's University Belfast. He graduated in 1987 with a First Class Honours degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Queen's University Belfast, obtained a Masters in Engineering Computation in 1988, and completed a PhD in Mechanical Engineering on hexahedral finite element mesh generation in 1993 at the same institution. His professional career began as a stress engineer at Short Brothers from 1988 to 1991, followed by positions as software engineer and project manager at FEGS Ltd from 1993 to 1998, and a brief role developing financial software at First Derivatives. Since 1998, he has held academic positions at Queen's University Belfast, advancing to full Professor with a focus on aircraft structures and design applications.

Professor Price has held significant leadership roles, including Head of the School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from 2011 to 2015, Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Engineering and Physical Sciences from 2015 to 2020, Director of Research for the Integrated Aircraft Technologies Cluster from 2006 to 2011, and Director of the Centre of Excellence in Integrated Aircraft Technologies from 2008 to 2011. His research specializations encompass design methods and systems, bio-inspired design, integrated design and manufacturing systems, cloud-based manufacturing systems, airframe analysis and design, value driven design, and life cycle costing for metallic and composite structures. As Principal Investigator, he leads the EPSRC Programme Grant 'Re-Imagining Engineering Design' (EP/V007335/1) in collaboration with Loughborough and York Universities, and the 'Design the Future 2 Programme - Building the Blind Watchmaker' (EP/R003564/1). He has supervised 30 PhD students to completion and published over 200 articles, including 'A generalizable neural operator for full-field deformation prediction in robotic design' (2026), 'Simultaneous dimension and tolerance design for robot manipulator' (2026), and 'A generative design framework of surgical robots for assisted ophthalmic surgery' (2025). Awards include the 2006 Thomas Hawksley medal from the IMechE for friction stir welding in airframe design and multiple best paper awards at international conferences. He has served on AIAA technical committees, EPSRC Manufacturing the Future Strategic Advisory Team (Chair 2020-2021), and the Jet Zero Council.