Mark Westwood has been appointed the new Head of the Centre of Aeronautics at Cranfield University. Westwood will be joining Cranfield from the Connected Places Catapult where he is currently the Chief Technology Officer. He will take up his post at Cranfield at the end of September 2021. Westwood has spent his early career at QinetiQ, working primarily in aerospace research and development across a range of civil and military technology demonstrator programmes. In 2010, he was appointed as Head of Systems Engineering for Air Division within QinetiQ, responsible for a team of systems engineers working across a wide range of