Lizzy Cross

Lizzy Cross is Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and a Professor in the Dynamics Research Group at the University of Sheffield with a research focus on advanced data analysis and machine learning for structural health monitoring (SHM) and nonlinear system identification. She has just completed an EPSRC Innovation Fellowship pioneering physics-informed machine learning for structural dynamics. Lizzy is a co-director of the Laboratory for Verification and Validation, a state-of-the-art dynamic testing facility (lvv.ac.uk). She has published over 140 articles, including 45 journal papers, 6 invited book chapters. She was recently awarded the Achenbach medal which recognises an individual (within 10 years of PhD) who has made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of the field of SHM.