Professor Stuart Bateman
Details
College: School of Engineering
Department: School of Engineering
Campus: City Campus Australia
stuart.bateman@rmit.edu.au
ORCID: 0000-0003-0617-977X
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Professor Stuart Bateman is the Boeing Professor of Aerospace and Head of Department and Associate Dean for Mechanical, Manufacturing and Mechatronics Engineering, a 110 strong academic Department at RMIT University.
He is an active researcher in the area of high performance and functional polymeric materials and coatings with a focus on solving applied research challenges which underpin competitive advantage through economic, environmental and societal benefits. Professor Bateman has partnered extensively with the aerospace, automotive, energy, security and defence industries. This includes a 27-year collaboration with Boeing in areas of advanced materials and coatings, manufacturing processes, additive manufacturing and digital engineering.
Professor Bateman was Director of the ARC Training Centre in Lightweight Automotive Structures from 2016 until 2023. This Centre brought together 16 partner organisations led by Ford Motor Company across three continents to address challenges associated with emissions and range through advanced lightweight material systems. From 2026 he is the Deputy Director of the ARC Research Hub for Australian Mass Manufacture of High Temperature Composites.
Professor Bateman has led research and development in related fields with the likes of General Electric, Vestas Wind Systems, ORICA, Dulux Group, Petronas and the Reserve Bank of Australia, in all over $30M in externally funded research. Professor Bateman is the inventor of 26 patent families and has delivered over 100 major confidential reports to industry and government.
Outcomes from Professor Bateman’s research contributions have been recognised through:
- RMIT Vice-Chancellor Aware for Research Impact and Collaboration – Team
- Boeing Technical Replication Award
- Leader’s Choice - Boeing Supplier of the Year - Academia
- CSIRO Medal for Outstanding Research Achievement (Topcoat Reactivation Technology)
- Boeing Special Invention Award
- CSIRO Medal for Outstanding Business Achievement for relationship with Petronas
- ORICA Innovation Award
Professor Bateman is a Williamson Fellow (Leadership Victoria) since 2013 and completed CSIRO’s “Leading the Research Enterprise’ Program in association with the Australian Graduate School of Management.
Supervisor projects
- PERFORMANCE-DRIVEN AI TECTONIC GENERATION
- 17 Jun 2026
- Sustainable composite materials for aircraft structures
- 16 Mar 2026
- Machine Learning and Automation for Functional Materials Development
- 11 Dec 2025
- AI-Based Simulation of Multi Jet Fusion Technology for Predicting Printed Part Properties
- 24 Jul 2025
- Data-driven design of functional paint surfaces
- 20 Mar 2025
- A Digital Twin-Driven Model for Mapping Part Quality in Multi Jet Fusion of Automotive Parts
- 27 Feb 2025
- Discovery of new inhibitors for steel
- 24 Feb 2025
- Self-Healing organic coatings: the delaminated interface
- 24 Feb 2025
- Machine learning for sustainable, functional materials
- 11 Nov 2024
- Investigating Lunar Dust Mitigating Coatings
- 16 Feb 2024
- High Rate Manufacturing Technologies For Preforming Complex Composite Aerostructures
- 12 Dec 2023
- Digital Manufacturing Technologies
- 5 Dec 2023
- Modelling, analysis and testing of hybrid joints fabricated using resin infusion and additive manufacturing for integrated aircraft structures
- 5 Dec 2023
- Investigation of Additive Manufacturing Technology for In-Situ Reinforcement of Polyetherimide with Continuous Carbon Fibres
- 29 Jul 2022
- Fibrous Tectonics: Amalgamation
- 17 Feb 2022
- Improving the Processability & Functional Properties of Thermoplastic Polymers for Fused Filament Fabrication
- 3 Sep 2021
- Synthesis of Siloxane-Based Polymer Brushes and Investigation As Low Ice Adhesion Coatings
- 6 Mar 2021
- Ultra-performance Polymer and Composites in Extrusion Based Additive Manufacturing with Space Applications
- 15 Dec 2020
- Characterisation of Two-Part Resin Mix for Aerospace Composite Part Production at Various Mix Conditions
- 30 Oct 2020
- Low Viscosity Precursors of Polyether Ketone Ketone, Their in situ Polymerisation and Application to Composite Formation
- 8 Jul 2020
- Super-Composite: Carbon Fiber Reinforced 3D Printed Tectonics
- 22 Mar 2019
- Design and Additive Manufacturing of TPMS-like Cellular Structures
- 13 Aug 2018
- Radially Braided Aerospace Carbon Fibre Composites: Manufacturing, Microstructure and Properties
- 2 Aug 2017
- Influence of Print Temperature and Polymeric Chain Movement in Interlayer Development in Fused Filament Fabrication
- 1 Aug 2017
- Improving Damage Tolerance of Aerospace Composites Using 3D Printing Technologies
- 17 May 2016
- Additive Manufacturing of Sharkskin-Inspired Surfaces for Improved Aerodynamic Performance
- 16 May 2016
Teaching interests
OENG1115 - Innovation and Technology Management (AQF9)
OENG1160 - Entrepreneurship in Research (AQF10)
Research interests
- High performance and functional polymeric based materials as used in advanced composites, coatings, sealants and adhesives
- Advanced manufacturing processes
- Additive manufacturing
- Digital engineering, including application of machine learning and AI to advanced materials
