Marko Bacic

Marko Bacic is a Professor of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, affiliated with the Department of Engineering Science. His research interests include systems architecture, design and integration, active tip clearance control, active flow control for turbomachinery, control of thermo-mechanical and electro-mechanical systems, hardware-in-the-loop simulation, and control of fluid structure interactions. He holds a University Research Lectureship at Oxford and is an Engineering Associate Fellow in Control Systems and Gas Turbine Functionality at Rolls-Royce. His work has led to over 12 granted patents and more than 40 published papers and patent applications.

Marko Bacic is a researcher specializing in air-breathing propulsion, control systems, flow control, fluidics, and flight control. His work focuses on developing advanced control strategies for hybrid electric aircraft propulsion systems, including predictive energy management and computationally efficient predictive control. Bacic has contributed to the design of hardware-in-the-loop simulations and experimental approaches to flight control systems. His research also addresses gas turbine engines with multi-variable closed-loop controllers for tip clearance regulation and fluidic valve dynamics. Additionally, he has explored turbulence intensity profiles in gas turbine combustors and their impact on propulsion performance.