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2015 SESAR Young Scientist Award

Dr Milena Studic, Lloyds Register Foundation (LRF) Research Associate in the Centre for Transport Studies has won 2nd prize for the excellent contribution of her PhD thesis to Air Traffic Management (ATM) research in Europe at the 2015 SESAR Young Scientist Award (YSA) competition.

The SESAR YSA competition aims at recognizing the outstanding contributions of young scientists in the domain of ATM modernisation. The prize was awarded by Mr David Bowen, Chief ATM at the SESAR Joint Undertaking, during the closing ceremony of the SESAR Innovation Days (SIDs) Conference on the 3rd of November in Bologna.

Dr Studic’s PhD research stretched the boundary of the current understanding of the ATM system by identifying a new safety-critical area of the ATM system, a part of the airport surface - the apron. To address this major gap in the existing SESAR Concept of Operation, Dr Studic developed a novel Total Apron Safety Management (TASM) framework with the aim to support robust, systemic, systematic, retrospective, prospective and system design analysis to improve safety management and efficiency in apron operations. High impact of Dr Studic’s research, already recognised by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) and the UK Civil Aviation Authorities (CAA), is playing a key role in the development of the safety regulatory framework for the ground handling industry.