Mr Andrew Fisher
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
Research Associate in Optimization of Adaptable & Practical Structures
Full contact details
School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering
F111
Sir Frederick Mappin Building (Broad Lane Building)
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
- Profile
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Andrew graduated from the University of Sheffield in 2014 with an MMath in Mathematics with French. He later worked for several years at HBK Prenscia as a Software QA Analyst working on nCode DesignLife, an FEA-based fatigue simulation tool.
Andrew rejoined the University of Sheffield in 2021 as a PhD student in the School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, submitting his thesis in 2025 and finishing in 2026. Andrew's doctoral research was in algebraic topology and homological algebra, supervised by Dr. James Cranch and Prof. Sarah Whitehouse.
He then joined the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering at the University as a postdoctoral research associate working with Dr. Helen Fairclough on the 'Resource-efficient, Adaptable and Practical Digitally Designed (RAPID) Structures' project.
- Research interests
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Civil & Structural Engineering
Structural Optimization
- Research group
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Structural Engineering