MATERIALS - Key Persons


Abbie Jones

Job Titles:
  • Academic Staff Member
  • Professor in Nuclear Graphite

Adam Stanley

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Safety Advisor

Adrian Handley

Job Titles:
  • Paper / Textiles Processing and Testing Technician

Agate Stranka

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  • Undergraduate Materials Engineering Programme Administrator

Ahu Gumrah Parry

Job Titles:
  • BP - ICAM Kathleen Lonsdale Research Fellow

Alan Nesbitt

Job Titles:
  • Quality Manager, Composites and NCCEF

Alec Davis

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  • Lecturer in Metallurgy

Aleksey Yerokhin

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  • Lecturer in Surface Engineering

Alexander Eggeman

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Fellow and Royal Society University Research Fellow

Ali Gholinia

Job Titles:
  • Research Fellow

Alison Cheslett

Job Titles:
  • Taught Master 's / Postgraduate Research

Alison Harvey

Job Titles:
  • Teaching and Scholarship Lecturer

Allan Matthews

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Surface Engineering and Tribology

Amanda Aspinall

Job Titles:
  • Centre and Research Administrator, Materials Performance Centre
  • MPC Centre and Research Administrator

Amy Benstead

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  • Senior Lecturer in Fashion Management

Andrea Taylor

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  • Teaching and Learning Manager

Andrew Forrest

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  • Acoustic Microscope / Nano Indentation Technician

Andrew Foster

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  • Research Associate, Lecturer in Polymer Science

Andrew Nicholls

Job Titles:
  • Programmes Officer

Andrew Sherry

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  • Academic Staff Member
  • Professor of Nuclear
  • Research Professor / Consultant

Andrew Thomas

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Fellow

Andrew Winn

Job Titles:
  • Testing Analysis Project Manager

Andrey Jivkov

Job Titles:
  • Academic Staff Member
  • Professor of Solid Mechanics

Andrey Kretinin

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer in Materials Physics

Andrij Zadoroshnyj

Job Titles:
  • Raman Spectroscopy / Polymer Technician

Anura Fernando

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer in Knitting of Advanced

Aravind Vijayaraghavan

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Nanomaterials

Arthur Wilkinson

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer in Polymer and Composites Processing

Aurelie Le Normand

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer in Fashion CAD

Aysha Roohi

Job Titles:
  • Portfolio Project Manager

Barbara Waters

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer in Fashion Business

Beatriz Mingo

Job Titles:
  • Senior Research Fellow

Ben Gardener

Job Titles:
  • Administrative Assistant

Ben Spencer

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  • Experimental Officer in Surface Analysis

Brian Connolly

Job Titles:
  • Academic Staff Member
  • Reader in Corrosion Performance
  • Reader in Corrosion Performance of Energy Systems

Brian Derby

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  • Professor of Materials Science

Brian Saunders

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Polymer and Colloid Chemistry

Carole Lever

Job Titles:
  • Receptionist, James Lighthill Building

Chamil Abeykoon

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer in Polymer Processing

Charlene Gallery

Job Titles:
  • Reader in Fashion Marketing

Christine Taylor

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager

Christopher Blanford

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer in Biomaterials

Christopher Cowan

Job Titles:
  • Composites Technician

Christopher Pryor

Job Titles:
  • Testing Analysis Project Manager

Christopher Race

Job Titles:
  • Academic Staff Member
  • Senior Research Fellow
  • Royal Society Research Fellow

Christopher Wilkins

Job Titles:
  • Electron Optics, Senior Experimental Officer

Claudia Henninger

Job Titles:
  • Reader in Fashion Marketing / Management

Clint Sharrad

Job Titles:
  • Academic Staff Member
  • Senior Lecturer in Nuclear Decommissioning Engineering

Constantinos Soutis

Job Titles:
  • Director and Professor of Aerospace Engineering
  • Emeritus Professor in Department

Coskun Kocabas

Job Titles:
  • Professor of 2D Device

Cristina Valles

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer in Polymer Nanocomposites

Dame Sue Ion

Job Titles:
  • Expert Advisor on the Nuclear Industry
The Materials Performance Centre (MPC) is the largest nuclear materials research centre in UK academia, with over 70 researchers and over £30 million research income. The MPC is a National Centre of Excellence in nuclear materials research and training. The MPC, established by the BNFL in 2002, has long been committed to a low C future, which is a crucial consideration for current and future power generation. The proven track record of MPC success is focussed on research to improve materials performance and processing, particularly for nuclear power systems, and on the education of the next generation of scientists and engineers. The MPC maintains a balance between fundamental, cutting edge research and providing practical solutions for current industrial power generation and related needs. The activities of the MPC include the nuclear materials life-cycle encompassing plant and core materials, waste management and fuel materials.

Damindi Jones

Job Titles:
  • Chemical Technician

Daniel Toolan

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer in Polymer Science

Daniella Ryding

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer in Fashion Marketing

David Hall

Job Titles:
  • Reader in Materials Science ( Ceramics )

David Kenyon

Job Titles:
  • Textile Colouration, Experimental Officer

David Lewis

Job Titles:
  • Acting Head of Department and Professor of Materials Chemistry

David Strong

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  • Research Technician

Deborah Parnell

Job Titles:
  • Postgraduate Taught Admissions Assistant

Delia Vazquez

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer in Retail Marketing

Dr Tom Shearer

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer in Applied Mathematics and Materials Science

Duc-The Ngo

Job Titles:
  • Electron Optics, Experimental Officer

Ed Pickering

Job Titles:
  • Academic Staff Member
  • Reader in Metallurgy
  • Senior Lecturer in Metallurgy

Elizabeth Jefferies

Job Titles:
  • Postgraduate Research

Elizabeth Murray-Jones

Job Titles:
  • Weaving Technician

Enrique Jimenez-Melero

Job Titles:
  • Academic Staff Member
  • Senior Lecturer in Radiation Material Science

Fabio Scenini

Job Titles:
  • Academic Staff Member
  • Professor of Materials Performance
  • Senior Lecturer Materials Performance

Fiona Colton

Job Titles:
  • Sewing Technician

Fiona Velez-Colby

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer in Fashion Retail Technology

Francis Carabine

Job Titles:
  • Corrosion Support Technician

Franz Wortmann

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Fibre and Textile Technology

Freyja Peters

Job Titles:
  • Associated Staff Member
  • Project Manager
  • Zr Project Manager

Gabriela-Cristina Siminicianu

Job Titles:
  • PGT Engineering Admissions Officer

Gary Ingham

Job Titles:
  • Technical Services Manager

Gary Pickles

Job Titles:
  • Workshop Technician

Ge Wang

Job Titles:
  • Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Fellow

Gianpaolo Vignali

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer

Gillian Kilburn

Job Titles:
  • Academic Secretary

Grace Burke

Job Titles:
  • Academic Staff Member
  • Emeritus Professor of Materials Performance

Hannah Rampley

Job Titles:
  • Design and Printing

Harry Pickford

Job Titles:
  • Corrosion Support Technician

Heather Murphy

Job Titles:
  • Personal Assistant

Helen Ashworth

Job Titles:
  • Professional Services Staff - Administrative

Helen Hann

Job Titles:
  • CAD Digital Technician

Helen Ryder

Job Titles:
  • Project and Grants Manager

Ian Kinloch

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Materials Science

Jack Donoghue

Job Titles:
  • Electron Optics, Senior Experimental Officer

Jack Waverley

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer in Fashion Business

Jake Cartwright

Job Titles:
  • Workshop Technician

Jane Deakin

Job Titles:
  • Business Manager, Materials Performance Centre

Jane Wood

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer in Fashion Technology

Janine Dixon

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer in Fashion Technology

Jasmine Fernley

Job Titles:
  • Polymer Technician

Jiashen Li

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer in Textile Science and Engineering

Jo Conlon

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer in Fashion Business

Joanna Cartwright

Job Titles:
  • Reader in Fashion Marketing and Branding

Joao Quinta da Fonseca

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  • Academic Staff Member
  • Professor of Mechanical Metallurgy

Joel Turner

Job Titles:
  • Academic Staff Member
  • Dalton Fellow in Nuclear Fuel Technology

John Francis

Job Titles:
  • Academic Staff Member
  • Reader in Welding Technology

John Taylor

Job Titles:
  • Quality Assurance and Assessment Administrator

Jonathan Duff

Job Titles:
  • Associated Staff Member
  • Experimental Officer
  • Royce Laboratory, Experimental Officer

Jonathan Masterson

Job Titles:
  • Deputy School Operations Manager

Jonny Blaker

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer in Biomaterials

Jordan Green

Job Titles:
  • Receptionist / Teaching and Learning Assistant

Joseph Robson

Job Titles:
  • Academic Staff Member
  • Professor of Metallurgy
  • Professor of Physical Metallurgy

Julia Behnsen

Job Titles:
  • Senior Experimental Officer

Julie Gough

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  • Professor of Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering

Katie Moore

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer in Materials Characterisation

Kenneth Gyves

Job Titles:
  • Microscopy / Metallography Technician

Kristina Brubacher

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer in Fashion Technology

Kun Yan

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  • Research Fellow

Laura Walford

Job Titles:
  • Recruitment and Admissions / Administrative

Laura-Ann Kavanagh

Job Titles:
  • Knitting Technician

Lee Fielding

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer in Polymer Chemistry

Lisa Taylor

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer in Clothing Technology

Louise Carney

Job Titles:
  • Experimental Officer

Marie O'Brien

Job Titles:
  • Histology Research Technician

Mark Bissett

Job Titles:
  • Reader in Nanomaterials

Mark Harris

Job Titles:
  • Workshop Manager

Marta Blazquez Cano

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer in Fashion Marketing

Matthew Bell

Job Titles:
  • Recruitment and Admissions

Matthew Roy

Job Titles:
  • Academic Staff Member
  • Senior Lecturer in Materials for Demanding Environments

Matthew Smith

Job Titles:
  • Electron Optics, Senior Experimental Officer

Michael Faulkner

Job Titles:
  • Electron Optics, Senior Experimental Officer

Michael Preuss

Job Titles:
  • Academic Staff Member
  • Professor of Metallurgy

Michael Shaver

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Polymer Science

Michele Curioni

Job Titles:
  • Academic Staff Member
  • Senior Lecturer in Corrosion Protection

Michelle Robinson

Job Titles:
  • Postgraduate Assistant

Mike C. Smith

Job Titles:
  • Academic Staff Member
  • Professor of Welding Technology

Mohammed Mirza

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer in Fashion Management

Natalie Shannon

Job Titles:
  • Lightform Project Manager

Nathan Murray

Job Titles:
  • Biomaterials Technician

Niamh Fox

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer in Polymer Science

Nicholas Stevens

Job Titles:
  • Academic Staff Member
  • Lecturer

Olga Tsigkou

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer in Biomaterials

Olwen Richert

Job Titles:
  • Postgraduate Officer

Paul Cowell

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer in New Product Development

Paul Mummery

Job Titles:
  • Academic Staff Member
  • Chairman in Nuclear

Penny Bartlett-O'Boyle

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant to the Head of Department

Peter Lovell

Job Titles:
  • Emeritus Professor

Peter Moroz

Job Titles:
  • Spinning Technician

Peter Worth

Job Titles:
  • Testing Analysis Project Manager

Philip Prangnell

Job Titles:
  • RAEng - Airbus Chair in Metallurgical Excellence

Philip Withers

Job Titles:
  • Regius Professor

Philipp Frankel

Job Titles:
  • Academic Staff Member
  • Senior Research Fellow

Ping Xiao

Job Titles:
  • Academic Staff Member
  • Professor of Materials Science

Prasad Potluri

Job Titles:
  • Director of Research and Professor of Robotics and Textile Composites
  • Professor of Robotics and Textile Composites

Pratibha Ram

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer in Fashion Marketing

Prof Dirk Engelberg

Job Titles:
  • Director, Materials Performance Centre
  • Professor of Materials Performance and Geological Disposal

R. Hugh Gong

Job Titles:
  • Reader in Yarn and Nonwovens Technology

Rachael Barlow

Job Titles:
  • Receptionist / Teaching and Learning Assistant

Rachel Parker-Strak

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer in Fashion Buying and Merchandising

Rachel Saunders

Job Titles:
  • Senior Experimental Officer

Rachel Studd

Job Titles:
  • Reader in Design

Richard Jones

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Materials Physics and Innovation

Ricky Shaw

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  • Postgraduate Taught Administrator

Rob Harrison

Job Titles:
  • Academic Staff Member
  • Dalton Research

Robert Akid

Job Titles:
  • Emeritus Professor

Robert Cernik

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  • Emeritus Professor

Robert Freer

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Robert Young

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Polymer Science and Technology

Rosy Boardman

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer in Fashion Business

Ryan Delve

Job Titles:
  • Workshop Technician

Sandra Kershaw

Job Titles:
  • Recruitment and Admissions

Sarah Cartmell

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Bioengineering

Sarah Haigh

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Materials Characterisation

Sarah-Jane Clelland

Job Titles:
  • Project Officer

Simeon Gill

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer in Fashion Technology Management

Simon Hunt

Job Titles:
  • NERC IRF and Presidential Fellow

Stephen Cowling

Job Titles:
  • Textiles Processing and Testing Technician

Stephen Doyle

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer in Fashion Marketing

Stephen Edmondson

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer in Polymer Physics

Stephie Tsai

Job Titles:
  • Senior Lecturer in Strategic Management

Steven Hayes

Job Titles:
  • Reader in Fashion Technology Management

Stuart Lyon

Job Titles:
  • Academic Staff Member
  • AkzoNobel Professor of Corrosion Control

Stuart Morse

Job Titles:
  • Mechanical Testing, Experimental Officer

Teruo Hashimoto

Job Titles:
  • Electron Optics, Experimental Officer

Thomas Flint

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer

Thomas Kerr

Job Titles:
  • Textiles Technology Research Technician

Thomas McDonald

Job Titles:
  • Reader in Sustainable

Timothy Abram

Job Titles:
  • Academic Staff Member
  • Professor in Nuclear Fuel Technology

Timothy Burnett

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Materials Imaging

Toby Parsonage

Job Titles:
  • Recruitment and Admissions Assistant

Tracy Bate

Job Titles:
  • Recruitment and Admissions

Wajira Mirihanage

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer in Materials Science

William Asheshov

Job Titles:
  • Royce Laboratory Technician

William Sampson

Job Titles:
  • Head of Department and Professor of Materials Modelling
  • Professor of Materials Modelling

Xiangli Zhong

Job Titles:
  • Electron Optics, Senior Experimental Officer

Xiaogang Chen

Job Titles:
  • Reader in Textile Engineering and

Xiaorong Zhou

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Corrosion Science and Engineering

Yao Yao

Job Titles:
  • Lecturer in Fashion Retail Technology and Digital Innovation

Yi Li

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Textile Science and Engineering

Ying Chen

Job Titles:
  • Royce Research Fellow

Zunnaira Shabbir

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager