Dr Rodney Thomson in Engineering Manager at ACS Australia and has over 25 years of experience in the design and implementation of composite structures for aerospace, maritime, land transport and energy applications. He is an internationally recognised expert specialising in composite design and optimisation, damage and failure modelling, composite structures for crashworthiness, bird-strike and energy absorption.

Rodney has led projects with local and international partners including Airbus, Boeing and Comac. More recently, he has focused on assisting companies to gain a competitive advantage through the development and delivery to market of novel composite engineering solutions. Rodney has delivered training courses to local industry, is co-author of over 100 technical publications and is a Fellow of Engineers Australia (FIEAust) and a Chartered Professional Engineer (CPEng) and Engineering Executive (EngExec). He is also on the National Engineering Register (NER) and a Registered Professional Engineer of Queensland (RPEQ).