Professor Amin Al-Habaibeh is Professor of Intelligent Engineering Systems within the Product Design team at Nottingham Trent University. He is also the Director of DTA-Energy (Doctoral Training Alliance). His research and teaching activities focus on several multi-disciplinary topics in the broad area of product design and innovation, automation, energy, condition monitoring and artificial intelligence. Amin is currently leading the Innovative and Sustainable Built Environment Technologies research group (iSBET) and co-founder of the Advance Design and Manufacturing Engineering Centre (ADMEC). His international research profile and academic activities cover a wide range of countries such as Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Ghana, Nigeria, Egypt, Spain and Libya. Amin has strong links and collaboration with industry including eight years as the industrial placement adviser and over 25 years of industrial research and collaboration.
Amin holds a PhD in Advanced Manufacturing Technologies and an MSc in Manufacturing Systems from the University of Nottingham; he also received his BSc in Industrial Engineering (Design and Manufacturing) from the University of Jordan. Before joining NTU, Amin had several industrial and academic positions including leading research roles at the University of Nottingham (Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre) and Loughborough University (Mechatronics Research Centre). Amin is a Chartered Engineer and member of the Institution of Engineering and Technologies (The IET) and past chairman of the IET for the East Midlands Region and Derbyshire/Nottinghamshire local network panel. He has acted as an external examiner at numerous UK and international universities. Over his career, Amin has received over £5 Million of funding for his research an academic activities from the EU, Innovate UK, EPSRC, AHRC and the industrial collaborators. Ongoing projects include a H2020 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (circa 6 Million Euros), EPSRC- Offshore Renweabale Energy Catapult (£50,000), AHRC- Virtual Heritage Platform for the Archaeological Site. Recent projects also include an Innovate UK funded project for extracting energy from flooded coal mines (£120,000) and Energy monitoring of buildings (£48,000).