Senior Lecturer in Engineering Systems Design at the University of Glasgow and founder of Student Voice AI. Research focuses on spacecraft orbit determination, space debris modelling, and applying machine learning to enhance teaching practices.
Dr Stuart Grey is an academic, researcher, and entrepreneur based in Glasgow, UK. He teaches across mechanical and aerospace engineering disciplines with a focus on systems engineering and the future of engineering skills. He also serves as an external examiner at King's College London (formerly University of Manchester).
At the University of Glasgow, all of his work is in support of his aim to systematically improve teaching, learning and the student experience.
Through Student Voice AI, he supports UK Higher Education by delivering automated, consistent, accurate, and relevant analysis of student comments. The platform provides:
His public engagement work focuses on space debris awareness and encouraging under-represented groups into engineering, including talks at the Royal Institution, BBC appearances, and viral space debris visualisations with millions of YouTube views.
| Year | Institution | Award | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | University of Glasgow | Best College Teacher in Science & Engineering | Nominee |
| 2025 | University of Glasgow | Best College Teacher in Science & Engineering | Nominee |
| 2024 | University of Glasgow | Best College Teacher in Science & Engineering | Nominee |
| 2019 | University of Strathclyde | Most Innovative | Nominee |
| 2018 | University of Strathclyde | Teaching Excellence Awards | Nominee |
| 2015 | UCL | Outstanding Researcher Development | Nominee |
| 2014 | UCL | Outstanding Teaching | Nominee |
Angles-only navigation in the proximity of a binary asteroid system (2020) Torre, Grey & Vasile — Journal of Guidance, Control and Dynamics Navigation of spacecraft near asteroid binary systems using only optical measurements, demonstrating navigation at Lagrange point L4.
Demonstrating developments in high-fidelity analytical radiation force modelling for GPS IIR/IIR-M (2019) Bhattarai, Ziebart, Allgeier, Grey, Springer, Harrison & Li — Journal of Geodesy High-fidelity radiation force modelling reducing mean 3-d orbit overlap values by 9% for GPS satellites.
Fast solar radiation pressure modelling with ray tracing and multiple reflections (2018) Li, Ziebart, Bhattarai, Harrison & Grey — Advances in Space Research BVH-accelerated ray tracing making SRP computation 30-50 times faster on personal computers.
Autonomous orbit determination for formations of CubeSats beyond LEO (2018) Vasile, Torre, Serra & Grey — Acta Astronautica CubeSat formation navigation beyond LEO using Time Of Arrival and Doppler shift measurements.
Sunlight illumination models for spacecraft surface charging (2017) Grey, Marchand, Ziebart & Omar — IEEE Transactions on Plasma Science OpenCL-based illumination model for spacecraft surface charging with multiple reflections, applied to Solar Orbiter.
Uncertainty treatment in the GOCE re-entry (2017) Minisci, Serra, Vasile, Riccardi, Grey & Lemmens Uncertainty propagation for GOCE satellite atmospheric re-entry using Chebyshev polynomial approximation.
SpOCChain - Distributed Space Object Catalog Using Blockchains (2018) — Grey Peer-to-peer space object catalogue using blockchain with orbit determination as proof of work.
Deep Space and the Impact of Space Debris on Communication Networks (2019) — Grey Written to accompany a public lecture at the University of Pennsylvania.