Wim J.C. Verhagen

Dr Wim Verhagen is an Associate Professor in the School of Engineering, teaching and researching in aircraft maintenance, with a particular focus on predictive maintenance and decision support. He is the Deputy Head of Department, Research & Innovation, for the Aerospace Engineering department at RMIT University.

Dr Verhagen is responsible for teaching in aircraft maintenance, including theoretical and practical approaches towards prediction, planning, execution and control of maintenance.

Dr Verhagen's research covers predictive maintenance and decision support. With respect to predictive maintenance, Dr Verhagen's research efforts focus on the development, implementation and validation of data-driven and hybrid diagnostic and prognostic models for aircraft systems. With respect to decision support, his research covers a comprehensive and integrated set of models to streamline and optimize maintenance planning, execution and control on operational and tactical time horizons.

Dr Verhagen has worked extensively with industry and in collaborative research projects, as part of his former assistant professorship at his alma mater TU Delft and currently as part of RMIT. Highlights include being TUD's principal investigator on the Clean Sky 2 AIRMES project and project co-coordinator and co-PI on the 5.6 million euro H2020 ReMAP, as well as various CI positions on projects with Australian partners. Dr Verhagen is responsible for the supervision of undergraduate and postgraduate research students, and has over 100 publications that can be found at Web of Science, Scopus, Google Scholar and ResearchGate.

Industry experience:
- Clean Sky 2 AIRMES / ADVANCE consortium (including TAP Portugal (coordinator), Airbus, Thales, Meggitt, Honeywell, DLR, a.o.)
- Horizon 2020 ReMAP consortium (including KLM, UTRCI, Embraer, ATOS, ONERA, a.o.)
- National industry collaborations within Australia, including DSTG, CASG, Jetstar, a.o.
- National industry collaborations within The Netherlands, including NLR, RNLAF, KLM E&M, Fokker Services, a.o.
- International industry collaborations, including Cargolux, Qantas, Kenya Airways, NASA, a.o.