Zahra Sharif Khodaei is a Professor in Aerospace Structural Durability and Health Monitoring at Imperial College London's Department of Aeronautics within the Faculty of Engineering. She earned her PhD in numerical modelling of functionally graded materials from Czech Technical University in 2008. Her professional experience includes a research associate role at Imperial College from 2009 before transitioning to a lectureship in 2014. Professor Khodaei holds prestigious fellowships from the Royal Aeronautical Society and Women in Engineering Society. Her research focuses on advanced structural health monitoring (SHM) techniques for aerospace composites, including fatigue analysis, damage detection via guided waves, and integration of physics-informed machine learning. Key areas include development of wireless sensor solutions, probabilistic frameworks for impact localization, and optimization of sensor networks for large composite structures. She also explores metamaterials, fiber optic sensing systems, and reliability analysis under environmental variations. Expertise: SHM, composite materials, fatigue analysis, neural networks, guided wave techniques Affiliations: Aerospace Materials and Structures, Space Engineering, Structural Integrity and Health Monitoring, The Composites Centre Recent work emphasizes baseline-free damage detection methods, probabilistic impact localization, and multi-objective sensor path optimization. Her publications span structural simulations, material characterization under extreme conditions, and hybrid sensor systems for aerospace applications. Scientific Awards: Fellow of Royal Aeronautical Society, Fellow of Women in Engineering Society Current research includes development of digital clone platforms for SHM system testing under uncertainty, vibration-based offshore wind turbine monitoring, and 3D-printed flexible strain sensors. She also investigates automated crack growth quantification using neural networks and temperature compensation frameworks for guided wave systems in large composites.





