Peter Childs

About Me

Peter Childs is the Head of the Dyson School of Design Engineering and the Professorial Lead in Engineering Design at Imperial College London. His research interests encompass creativity tools and innovation, design process and rationale, fluid flow and heat transfer, particularly rotating flow, sustainable energy component and system design, and robotics. Before his current role at Imperial, he served as director of the Rolls-Royce-supported University Technology Centre for Aero-Thermal Systems, director of InQbate, and a professor at the University of Sussex. Childs has contributed to over 180 refereed journal and conference papers and several books, including the Handbook on Mechanical Design Engineering (Elsevier, 2013, 2018), as well as co-authoring books on rural-urban migration, inclusive sports, and sports technology. He has also been principal or co-investigator on contracts totaling over £30 million. At Imperial, his responsibilities include serving as joint course director for the Innovation Design Engineering double master's degree, run jointly with the Royal College of Art, and Design Lead for the Manufacturing Futures Lab. Additionally, he is the Founder Director and Chief Scientific Officer at QBot Ltd.