Professor Alec Wilson
Professor

Alec Wilson is Professor in Computational Aeroacoustics and Director of the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre (UTC) in Propulsion Systems Noise within Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton.
Career & Current roles
Alec Wilson graduated in Mathematics from Cambridge university before joining Rolls-Royce as a graduate trainee. Within the company took a number of technical specialist roles related to unsteady flows in aeroengine compressors, aeroengine noise, computational hydrodynamics for ship and ship propulsor design and hydrodynamics for tidal turbines. He was elected to the Rolls-Royce Engineering Fellowship as Associate Fellow in Aerodynamics, Hydrodynamics and Computational Fluid Dynamics.
At the start of 2016 Alec joined the University of Southampton as Professor in Computational Aeroacoustics and Director of the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre (UTC) in Propulsion Systems Noise within the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences.
Alec teaches and tutors in the fields of acoustics, aerodynamics and mechanical engineering.
Outside of the university Alec is currently vice-chair of CEAS/ASC (the Aeroacoustics Subcommittee of the Council of European Aerospace Societies).