Seamus D GarveyProfessor Seamus D. Garvey began his career with six years at GEC Large Electrical Machines Ltd, Rugby, and his first rotordynamics experience was acquired there. When he left the company in 1990 he was Principal Engineer for Mechanical Analysis and ad written the computer program used ever since for rotordynamics analysis. He then spent ten years at Aston University, after which he joined the University of Nottingham as a Professor of Dynamics. He remains active in rotordynamics research - especially in the areas of active control and developing control forces through the airgaps of electrical machines - and serves on the organizing committees of both the IFToMM Rotordynamics conference and the IMechE Conference on Vibrations in Rotating Machines. He is currently Director of the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre in Gas Turbine Transmissions at the University of Nottingham. Professor Garvey is a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and a Member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology. Read More Read Less