Professor Gordana Collier

Gordana has a strong interest in embedding entrepreneurship and employability into the curriculum, leading successful participation in competitions such as:Formula Student in the UK and abroad.

Strong interest in embedded systems and battery modelling  

Fabio Mori PhD (2025 - )

Adriano Schommer PhD (2025)

Katie Lukow MRes (2023) 

Brady Planden PhD (2022)

Peter Kock PhD (2013)

Waruna Masinghe MRes (2010)

• Embedded systems for Electric Vehicles
• Battery modelling
• Pedagogy of teaching science and engineering

Gordana is passionate about higher education and combines pedagogical innovation with advanced engineering research.  Her work focuses on ehancing learning in the Science and Engineereing fields through problem-based learning, while also contributing to the design and analysis of embedded systems for electric vehicles and advanced battery performance modelling.

Research grants and awards

• Office for Students fuding, value £1,000,000.
• Improvement of accuracy of Chess Dynamics tracking systems, KTP Award , A. Ordys and G Collier, value £200,000.
• Design and build of bespoke Unmanned Aerial Vehicles suitable for specialist civilian applications, KTP Award, A. Ordys and G Collier, £105,000.

• Member of the IET UK Academic Accreditation Commitee and an academic Accreditor for the IET
• Formual Student UK judge
• Founding member of the National Instruments Research Academic Council UK
• Associate Editor for The International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society
• Reviewer for the IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies

Gordana believes in the creation of a vibrant, inclusive cross-campus environment and broader opportunities within the university community, to support and inspire students to develop their professional, managerial and entrepreneurial skills. To facilitate this in the past she created and supported a wide range of extra-curricular opportunities that included Robot, Lunabotics project, Kingston University Female Engineering Network (KUFEN) and Electric Formula Student Club.

She mentored and supported students to achieving prestigious awards such as 'Leaders of tomorrow'. For her work on campus, she has been nominated for a national Women in Science and Engineering (WISE) Advisor Award.

Her work with Formula Student project is in its 10th year, as the Principal Academic Adviser for Oxford Brookes Racing.

Previous experience

Gordana Collier graduated from the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Faculty at the University of Nis, Yugoslavia. She was Yu DoD Scholar then worked for the Yugoslav Department of Defence prior to her arrival to the UK, where she continued her education at the University of Southampton.

Gordana has held senior R&D and management roles in UK companies, including the position of Technical Manager for European Operations of a stock exchange-listed Singaporean company until 1999, when she moved to academia. She spent 8 years at Kingston University London, contributing to a range of academic and industry-related developments. In addition to introducing innovative teaching methods, her enthusiasm and commitment to providing an exceptional student experience resulted in starting up a range of extra-curricular activities, including the Kingston University Robot Club, a Female Engineering Network and the Formula Student e-racing team. Gordana was a member of the University Industrial Control Research Group and Educational Research Group. She also served on the University Academic Board and was a member of the IT Strategy Group and the School Senior Management Team. She was an Associate Professor and the Course Director for MSc Mechatronic Systems and MSc Automotive Engineering (Hybrid and Electric) at Kingston University until 2014, when she moved to the Mechanical and Mathematics department at Oxford Brookes to take on the role of the Programme Lead for Postgraduate Taught provision in Mechanical Engineering. In the summer of 2019, she was promoted to the Head of School of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics.