
SPEAKERS
Facilitator:
Dr David Stanley, CDT Development Manager, Henry Royce Institute
David trained originally as a chemist, gaining a DPhil in Chemistry from the University of Sussex and subsequently spending 15 years as a senior research scientist in the chemical industry, working first on advanced ceramic materials and then on process technologies for the bulk chemicals business of ICI. He moved into Higher Education in a business development role at Keele University before joining the University of Manchester in 2003 where he managed the Engineering Doctorate Centre, training over 200 doctoral students in both manufacturing and nuclear engineering. He joined the Royce in 2018, taking on responsibility for the Institute’s training, skills and outreach agenda. This includes running training events, such as student sandpit workshops, and establishing a successful scheme to enable doctoral students to access the Royce’s world class facilities in support of their research.
Dr Jessica Shaw, Henry Royce Institute
Dr Jessica Shaw joined the Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials as a Project Manager in 2019. During this time, she has been responsible for the management of a grant portfolio worth >£16M, and the successful submission of a bid to establish an EPSRC funded National Research Facility for Lab X-ray Computed Tomography (NXCT).
Prior to joining the Royce, Jessica completed an iCASE PhD sponsored by Merck Chemicals Ltd., titled “Ring Fused Conjugated Polymers for Use in Organic Electronics” under the supervision of Professor Martin Heeney at the Centre for Plastic Electronics, Imperial College London. During her PhD, she spent 6-months carrying out research at the Institute of Advanced Materials, Nanjing Tech University China, before moving to Boston University, USA for a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship with Professor Malika Jeffries-EL.
Day 1 – Tuesday 2nd March
10:00
Introduction to the Henry Royce Institute
Prof Dave Knowles, CEO, Henry Royce Institute
Professor David Knowles joined the Henry Royce Institute as its CEO in early 2019, bringing with him a wealth of experience from senior roles in both academia and industry. David is a Fellow of the Royal Academy and prior to joining Royce, was Professor of Nuclear Engineering at Bristol University and Co-Director of the South-West Nuclear Hub and Atkins Fellow. David is particularly experienced in leading the collaboration between higher education and industry, to accelerate energy sector-related research, knowledge transfer and implementation. In recent years David has led industrial projects related to design and assessment of renewable energy offshore structures and nuclear plant. He also leads the EDF Energy High Temperature Centre.
Prof Philip Withers, Chief Scientist, Henry Royce Institute
Philip Withers is the Regius Professor of Materials and Chief Scientist of the Henry Royce Institute. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, Royal Academy of Engineering and Chinese Academy of Engineering. His research focusses on applying advanced techniques to follow the behaviour of materials in real time and 3D. He was the founding Director of bp International Centre for Advanced Materials. In 2008 he set up the Henry Moseley X-ray Imaging Facility, a world-leading suite of X-ray imaging systems, which in 2020 these facilities became a founding part of the National Research Facility in Lab. CT.
11:00
Transition to Zero Carbon
‘Making a Material Difference to Net Zero’
Keynote Speaker
Prof Valeska Ting, University of Bristol
Prof Valeska Ting is a Professor of Smart Nanomaterials in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bristol, and has a background in materials synthesis, characterisation and physical properties testing. Her research into functional nanoporous materials involves using porous materials such as zeolites, porous carbons and metal-organic framework materials to address challenges in sustainable technologies. She leads a team of researchers interested in exploring the possibility of enhancing the storage capacity of existing nanoporous hydrogen storage materials, creating materials for selective storage and sequestration of gases such as carbon dioxide and designing multifunctional materials by combining properties of different sets of materials to produce hybrid systems that can perform several specialised functions. The group employs a large range of experimental materials characterization techniques including X-ray and neutron diffraction, electron microscopy, thermogravimetric and spectroscopic analysis, gas sorption testing and physical properties testing for design and development of new materials-based solutions. Professor Ting is also an accomplished STEM communicator, is a BAME Expert Voice for the BBC Academy, and has presented public lectures on composites for the Bristol Composites Institute, public webinars on energy storage for the Institution of Chemical Engineers, Nanomaterials Masterclasses for the IOM3 and video content on the laws of thermodynamics to support the 2016 Royal Institution Christmas lectures.
11:00
Circular Economy
‘Neofossils: bio-based, non-degradable plastics to sequester carbon’
Keynote Speaker
Prof Tony Ryan, University of Sheffield
Professor Tony Ryan is The Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Sheffield and the founding Director of the Grantham Centre for Sustainable Futures.Tony focuses on the global challenge of the food, water, and energy nexus; feeding a growing world population; reducing the impacts of agriculture and food production that account for 30% of green house gas emissions and 70% of water use; and harnessing the power of the sun for renewable energy. He leads the University of Sheffield’s programme in sustainability research, integrating across traditional boundaries in the pure and applied sciences, engineering, medicine, and social sciences.
11:00
Digital & Communications
‘Optically accessible devices: towards a sustainable future’
Keynote Speaker
Dr Giuliana Di Martino, University of Cambridge
My research career started in Italy at the Scuola Superiore di Eccellenza and University of Catania. I spent part of my Master studies at Boston University and completed my PhD at Imperial College London. My recognition on an international scale in the plasmonic community led to several awards (CSWP Woman Physicist of the Month from the American Physical Society and the 2014 ABTA Doctoral Researcher Award). I was a Postdoctoral Fellow in Cambridge and later on, after being awarded the prestigious Winton Advanced Research Fellowship in 2018, I became an independent group leader at the University of Cambridge, at the Cavendish Laboratory. I was appointed as Lecturer in Device Materials at the Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge, at the beginning of 2020. My research (https://www.dimartinolab.msm.cam.ac.uk) links the fields of low-energy nanoscale device engineering and plasmon-enhanced light-matter interactions by implementing optically-accessible memristive devices. My research group uses the ultra-concentration of light to develop innovative fast ways to study real-time movement of individual atoms that underpins this new generation of ultra-low energy memory nano-devices, thus overcoming the limitations of traditional investigation techniques and opening up new routes to sustainable future IT.
11:30
Transition to Zero Carbon Student Speaker:
Bradley Young,
University of Oxford
‘Novel zirconium alloys for fusion applications’
Circular Economy
Student Speaker:
Renzhi Li,
The University of Manchester
‘Modified Polylactic Acid Self-Reinforcement Composites’
Digital & Communications Student Speaker:
Richard Culwick,
University of Birmingham
‘Improving rail reliability using acoustic emission monitoring’
11:50
Transition to Zero Carbon Student Speaker:
Yiana Shakespeare,
University College London
‘Carbon-MOx (M = V-Nb-Mo) composite materials for use as high performance anodes in lithium ion batteries and hybrid capacitors’
Circular Economy
Student Speaker:
Harriet Kildahl,
University of Birmingham
Digital & Communications Student Speaker:
Anastassia Milleret,
University of Birmingham
Characterising Radiation Induced Mechanical and Microstructural Changes in Model Alloys for Nuclear Reactor Lifetime Extension
12:10
Transition to Zero Carbon Student Speaker:
Gabriel Krenzer,
Imperial College London
Circular Economy
Student Speaker:
Alexandra Dickinson-Lomas,
University of Birmingham
‘Characterising Radiation Induced Mechanical and Microstructural Changes in Model Alloys for Nuclear Reactor Lifetime Extension’
13:50
Sustainable Manufacture
Keynote Speaker
Dr Dan Cogswell, University of Sheffield
Dr Daniel Cogswell has recently started a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship at the University of Sheffield, researching how to standardise and take advantage of digital material property information in supporting better design, processing and materials selection for high integrity applications. Daniel spent the first stage of his career focussed on improving and estimating the mechanical properties of steels used in nuclear steam raising plants. Daniel has worked closely with UK metal suppliers on linking-up research activities, supporting studentships and joint programmes. Looking to add more weight to subjective judgements common in property estimation, Daniel also has an interest in Statistics.
13:50
Health & Wellbeing
Keynote Speaker
Dr Marco Domingos, University of Manchester
Dr Domingos is a senior lecturer in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering at the University of Manchester. Before joining the University of Manchester (2014), he worked for two years (2010-2012) as an assistant researcher in additive manufacturing at the Centre for Rapid and Sustainable Product Development – CDRSP (Portugal) and for 1 year (2013) at Dias de Sousa, SA (Portugal) in the field of medical imaging. He is currently a principal investigator at the Henry Royce Institute, where his group develops advanced biomaterials and biofabrication strategies for application in Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (TE&RM).
13:50
Transition to Zero Carbon Student Speaker:
Mian Zahid Hussain,
University of Exeter
‘Bi-MOF Derived Nanocomposites_Applications in Energy and Environment’
Sustainable Manufacture
Student Speaker:
Health & Wellbeing
Student Speaker:
14:20
Transition to Zero Carbon Student Speaker:
Mengnan Wang,
Imperial College London
Sustainable Manufacture
Student Speaker:
Steven Hall,
University of Leeds
‘Spray dried surface treated titanium dioxide: Influence of surface treatments on powder flowability’
Health & Wellbeing
Student Speaker:
Andrew McCormack,
Heriot Watt University
14:40
Transition to Zero Carbon Student Speaker:
Ilias Ntoukas,
Coventry University
Sustainable Manufacture
Student Speaker:
Hanwen Fu,
University of Manchester
‘Investigation A Novel Pre-age Deform and Re-age Processing Route for Tailoring Properties in Al-Mg-Si-(Cu) Alloys’
Health & Wellbeing
Student Speaker:
Syed Mohammad Daniel Syed Mohamed,
University of Sheffield
‘Development of a Bioartificial Kidney using Polyhydroxyalkanoates’
15:00
Transition to Zero Carbon Student Speaker:
Angus Pedersen,
Imperial College London
Sustainable Manufacture
Student Speaker:
Janine Preston,
University of Leeds
Health & Wellbeing
Student Speaker:
Emmanuel Asare,
The University of Sheffield
‘Polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) and Bacterial Cellulose (BC), highly versatile natural polymers; their use in nerve tissue engineering’
15:50
Transition to Zero Carbon Student Speaker:
Andrew McClintock,
Loughborough University
‘Establishing the coefficient of thermal expansion at the micro scale for Gilsocarbon as an input for modelling nuclear reactor cores’
Sustainable Manufacture
Student Speaker:
Bruno Moog,
University of Southampton
‘The fabrication of infrared chalcogenide glass fibre, ultra-thin fibre and large diameter gallium lanthanum sulfide windows.’
Health & Wellbeing
Student Speaker:
Jonathan Hinchcliffe,
University of Sheffield
‘Development of a next generation, natural polymer based, bioartificial pancreas for the treatment of Type 1 Diabetes’
16:10
Transition to Zero Carbon Student Speaker:
Siqi He,
University of Bristol
Sustainable Manufacture
Student Speaker:
Julian Holland,
University of Southampton
‘Building more realistic models of battery materials: Quantum mechanical simulations of an entire graphite nanoparticle and its lithium intercalation’
Health & Wellbeing
Student Speaker:
Krishnanand Shukla,
Material Engineering Research Institute,
Sheffield Hallam University
‘New Approach To Perform Plasma Nitriding Of Alloys Using HIPIMS Discharge’
16:30
Transition to Zero Carbon Student Speaker:
Loukia-Pantzechroula Merkouri,
University of Surrey
‘Switchable catalysts for end-products flexibility in CO2 utilisation schemes’
Sustainable Manufacture
Student Speaker:
Health & Wellbeing
Student Speaker:
Divya Jain,
Durham University
‘Need of adopting circular economy sustainable approach for handling End-of-life PV module waste in developing countries.’
Day 2 – Wednesday 3rd March
10:00
IOM3 Young Persons’ World Lecture Competition Winner
Morgan Lowther
Having studied for an MSci in Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge, UK, Morgan returned to his Midlands roots to work at the Manufacturing Technology Centre in 2016. As part of the National Centre for Additive Manufacturing, he spent time characterising the feedstocks used for metal powder bed printers. This led to a fascination with how powder, printing parameters and post-processing alter the behaviour of additively manufactured materials. Now a final year PhD student at the University of Birmingham, UK, Morgan’s research uses 3D printing to deliver antimicrobials from biomedical implants, hoping to tackle the increasing challenge of implant-associated infections. Engaging with science outreach since his undergraduate days, a highlight has been helping students become human 3D printers.
11:00
Micro-Sandpit Workshops
The Micro-Sandpit workshops are being supported by:
Liz Roswell, Johnson Matthey,
https://matthey.com/en
Mark Chatterton, Jacobs
https://www.jacobs.com/
Rob Short, Lancaster University
https://www.jacobs.com/
Lucy Smith, MPI UK
https://www.mpiuk.com/
The Micro-Sandpit workshops are being supported by:
14:10
Careers drop in
session 1
Academia
Dr Aneeqa Khan,
The University of Manchester at Harwell
Dr Dan Cogswell,
University of Sheffield
14:10
Careers drop in
session 2
Industry Manufacturing
Dr Ben Knight-Gregson,
Dyson
Dr Laura Cohen,
BCC
14:10
Careers drop in
session 3
Industry Consultancy
Dr Mark Chatterton,
Jacobs
Tolulope Oke,
Wood
14:10
Careers drop in
session 4
RTOS
Dr Nick Wright,
Digital Catapult
Dr Sofia Marchesini,
NPL
14:10
Careers drop in
session 5
Science Policy/Science Publishing
Dr Jenn Sanders,
Henry Royce Institute
Dr Rosanna Greenop,
UKRI-EPSRC
14:10
Careers drop in
session 6
Enterprise/Spin-outs
Dr Lata Sahonta,
Henry Royce Institute
Dr Thanasis Georgiu,
Henry Royce Institute
14:10
Careers drop in
session 7
Outreach/Professional Development
Dr Chris Hamlett,
Henry Royce Institute
Dr Diane Aston,
IOM3
15:45
Final Keynote
‘The Long Nose of Innovation’
Keynote Speaker
Dr Bill Buxton, Principal Researcher, HCIR Microsoft
Bill Buxton is a relentless advocate for innovation, design, and – especially – the appropriate consideration of human values, capacity, and culture in the conception, implementation, and use of new products and technologies. This is reflected in his research, teaching, talks, and writing – including his past column on design and innovation for BusinessWeek.com, and his 2007 book, Sketching User Experiences. He is a Partner Researcher at Microsoft Research, where he has been employed since December 2005. Prior to that, he was Principal of his own Toronto-based boutique design and consulting firm, Buxton Design. In 1995, Buxton became the third recipient of the Canadian Human-Computer Communications Society Award for contributions to research in computer graphics and human-computer interaction. In 2000 he was given the New Media Visionary of the Year Award at the Canadian New Media Awards. In 2001, The Hollywood Reporter named him one of the 10 most influential innovators in Hollywood. In 2002, Time Magazine named him one of the top 5 designers in Canada. Also in 2002, he was elected to the CHI Academy. In October, 2005, he and Gord Kurtenbach received the “Lasting Impact Award”, from ACM UIST 2005, which was awarded for their 1991 paper, Issues in Combining Marking and Direct Manipulation Techniques. In 2008 he became the 10th recipient of the ACM SIGCHI Lifetime Achievement Award, “for fundamental contributions to the field of Computer Human Interaction.” In 2009 he was elected Fellow of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM, for his contributions to the field of human-computer interaction, and in 2011 he became the first recipient of the annual Grand Canadian Digital Media Pioneer Award.