Source: Panpan Xu
Panpan Xu comes from China. She received her Bachelor’s (2016) and Master’s (2019) degree in Aeronautical and Astronautical Science and Technology from Xi’an Jiaotong University in China. Her previous research experience relates to the defects detection of metallic structures using direct current potential drop (DCPD) method and eddy current testing (ECT) method, and the damage evaluation of non-metallic structures using capacitive method. Her master’s thesis focused on the study of the mechanical properties and damage mechanism of polymer composites under biaxial compression. Prior to joining the Imperial College London, Panpan worked at Xi’an Jiaotong University as a research assistant working on the vibration analysis and evaluation using inversion algorithms. Now, Panpan is a PhD student in the Non-Destructive Evaluation Research Group of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College London and is supervised by Dr. Peter Huthwaite. She joined the GW4SHM program as an Early Stage Researcher (ESR) in November 2020 and her primary research interest is in estimating the reliability of guided wave SHM systems through numerical modelling.