Professor Len Gelman
Company Name: Cranfield University
Job Title: Director of Centre of Vibro - Acoustics and Fatigue
Professor Len Gelman PhD, Doctor of Sciences (habilitation) is the Chair in Vibro-Acoustic Monitoring and Director of Centre of Vibro-Acoustics and Fatigue at Cranfield University. He has more than 25 years experience in signal processing and vibro-acoustic monitoring of complex mechanical systems (e.g. rotating, reciprocating machinery, etc.) both in industry and academia. He has been principal investigator on numerous contracts and grants including grants from the USA National Academy of Sciences, USA National Research Council, USA International Science Foundation, USA Civilian Research and Development Foundation (twice), USA MacArthur Foundation, Lady Davis in Israel and Centro Volta in Italy. He is principal investigator on UK EPSRC, UK DTI (twice), UK Royal Society, Rolls Royce (twice), Caterpillar (twice), Shell and Boeing COE grants.
Professor Gelman is a Fellow of the British Institute of Non-Destructive Testing (BINDT) and UK Institution of Diagnostic Engineers, Chairman of the Condition Monitoring and Diagnostic Technology Committee of the BINDT and Director of the International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration (USA). He is the author of over 200 publications (including 17 patents) and 11 keynote papers as well as being editor-in-chief of the book series “Condition Monitoring” (Coxmoor, UK), Chair of 2007 World Congress on Engineering Asset Management, Honorary Co-Chair of 2007, 2008 and 2009 World Congresses of Engineering and Chair of 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 Condition Monitoring Conferences. Professor Gelman is a chief designer of numerous technologies and engineering prototypes. He has participated in the scientific boards of numerous international conferences, has spent a large amount of time lecturing and consulting to industry in all parts of the world and has held visiting professor positions at five overseas universities.
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