Keynote Speakers

Our keynote speakers are internationally recognised experts who will share their knowledge and experience drawn from their expertise in vibration and related fields at APVC 2025.

Professor Tim Waters (University of Bristol, UK)

Biography: Tim Waters graduated in mathematics from the University of Bristol, UK, in the late 1980s. On graduation, he spent some years at Airbus where he worked on aerodynamic and elastic modelling of aircraft structures for flutter prediction. He later completed his PhD at the University of Bristol, in collaboration with Airbus, on experimental validation of dynamic finite element models. He joined the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR) at the University of Southampton about 25 years ago, initially as a consulting noise and vibration engineer and soon after he joined the academic staff. He is currently a professor of vibration engineering and head of the ISVR. He has developed a broad range of research interests in both the mitigation and exploitation of structural shock and vibration. Current projects include shock isolation of museum artefacts during transit (in collaboration with The British Museum), the effects of vibration on liquid medicines transported by drone (funded by the Department for Transport), and shock prediction of aircraft during landing (in collaboration with Airbus). He has also spent the last decade developing vibration based techniques for removing unwanted accretions from structures, which is the subject of his talk.