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\nJames has an undergraduate degree (BEng) from Imperial College, London, in Materials Science and Engineering. He also has a Masters Degree (MSc) from Cranfield University in Thermal Power (Gas Turbine Engineering) where he was supported with a Rolls Royce UTC Scholarship. He then obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge, with funding from the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Ministry of Defence). He has since held Research Assistant and Senior Research Associate positions at Cambridge, supporting research activities in the field of indentation testing and advanced numerical modelling. During this period, he wrote and delivered a lecture course to undergraduate and graduate students on The Finite Element Method. He is a recipient of an Armourers and Brasiers’ Fellowship Award.
\nIn 2011 he joined the leading systems and engineering technology company, Frazer-Nash Consultancy, supporting projects in the aerospace and nuclear industries. He then returned to Cambridge in 2012 to pursue research into the development of methods and models for the measurement of material strength parameters from indentation data. He has published over 30 papers concerning the deformation and mechanics of materials, has delivered several invited talks and plenary lectures at international conferences, and has an international reputation in the field of indentation and finite element analysis.
\nJames also established (in 2012) his own consultancy firm, Double Precision Consultancy (DPC), which specialises in the provision of mathematical and multiphysics modelling services to a wide range of industrial clients. James sold this company to Element Materials Technology in January 2021.
\nIn February 2018 he joined the Centre for Scientific Computing at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge (Department of Physics), where he accepted a position as Coordinator of the EPSRC-funded Centre for Doctoral Training in Computational Methods for Materials Science.
\nIn 2019 James left the University of Cambridge after 15 years to concentrate on activities associated with Plastometrex, which he co-founded in late 2018.
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\nMax holds a Natural Sciences degree from the University of Cambridge (2015), where he specialised in Materials Science. He went on to study for a PhD, with support from AWE in the Composites and Coatings group under the supervision of Professor Bill Clyne. This work focused on the development of methods for the extraction of mechanical properties via the processing of indentation data using iterative FEM modelling. Specifically, this related to methods characterising the creep, high strain rate plasticity and dynamic fracture response of metallic materials. The procedures for these methods are detailed in the 3 papers he published during this time
With a background in marketing and working for many years at a London based design agency, Alan has developed marketing material for the University Cambridge Press, Hotel Chocolat, The National Trust and many other big brands. Alan specialises in print, digital and motion design and believes in producing impactful design that focuses on the fundamentals: the problem, the audience and the message.
\nAt Plastometrex, Alan works with the sales and marketing team as our in-house designer.
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\nOne of Jimmy’s greatest successes to date was the identification of a fundamental flaw in an analytical calculation method used extensively in the indentation community. His work highlighted with great clarity the deficiency in this method, and demonstrated (indisputably) that problems of this nature could only be tackled with advanced numerical modelling. Jimmy has since gone on to publish more than 7 high-impact, peer reviewed journal papers during the course of his PhD – the average is approximately 2 – and he has presented his research at several international conferences.
\nMuch of his recent work has involved validation of the Indentation Plastometry methodology – work that subsequently led to the development of a quicker, more reliable methodology that is currently incorporated in the latest SEMPID software packages.
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\nHis research interests centre on the thermo-mechanics of composites and coatings, particularly processing, numerical modelling and fine scale mechanical interrogation. Details are available at www.ccg.msm.cam.ac.uk.
\nHe has authored over 300 papers, two textbooks (on composites) and 10 educational software packages. He is in the original ISI Highly Cited list (www.isihighlycited.com). He has been sole supervisor for over 80 PhD students in Cambridge and has given about 50 Invited Keynote Talks and Colloquia over the past 10 years. He was President of the Federation of European Materials Societies and is now an Honorary Member.
\nHe has been Principal Investigator for many large projects, with an aggregate value running into several tens of £M, and has chaired 8 large international conferences. He is also the Director of DoITPoMS (www.doitpoms.ac.uk/), which maintains a globally-accessed Educational Materials Science website. Current Scientific Council memberships include IMDEA (Madrid), The Materials Science Cluster of Excellence (Erlangen) and the Jülich Helmholtz Centre for Energy & Climate Research.
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\nIn 2004, he was awarded the Griffith Medal, a premier prize of the Institute of Materials. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2008 and Helmholtz International Fellow in 2014.
Mike has a PhD in materials science from The University of Cambridge. His research was focused on developing low-cost materials enabled water purification systems for use in resource constrained settings. Alongside research work, Mike has experience in VC investing, creating and developing social impact ventures in East Africa, and startup support programmes for tech innovators.
\nAt Plastometrex Mike leads up the commercial efforts and strategy.
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\nBetween 2017 and 2020, he worked as a research fellow at the University of Birmingham and then at the University of Sheffield before joining Plastometrex. During this period, he participated in several research projects collaborated with Rolls-Royce and provided technical support to many companies and institutes in the industry. Works focused on establishing physics-based multi-scale computational modelling packages to study the in-depth relationship between materials' microstructure, macro component-level material properties and manufacturing process parameters.
\nAt Plastometrex, he works as a computational material scientist to extend the capability of our plastometer software package to measure stress-strain curves in anisotropic materials using indentation test data and finite element modelling.
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\nHaving worked for two summers at Plastometrex during his time at university, Marcus is now a full-time member of the technical team at Plastometrex, contributing to R&D in the development of the PIP technique, as well as supporting the development of the high temperature ‘HotPIP’ module.
Manoj has an undergraduate degree in Mechanical engineering from Visvesvaraya Technological University and he worked in the automotive industry as a mechanical design engineer for two years in India, where he was involved in product development of automotive and electronic components.
\nHe completed his Master of Science degree in Engineering Design from Loughborough University and he worked on research and development of wireless power transfer for medical implantable devices using a piezoelectric transducer and a Halbach arrangement of magnets as a part of his master’s degree thesis.
\nAt Plastometrex he works on new product development, testing, and validation of the company's new portable testing systems.
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\nHe joined Plastometrex to work as a materials scientist to contribute to the R&D work with the PIP methodology.
Olly has worked in materials science for over 10 years. His experience includes academia, start-up and global consumer electronics companies, and his expertise is in collaborative commercial strategy, technology maturation and product development. As Business Development Manager, Olly is creating the links and sustaining the relationships that will deliver our products into new markets and shape our product development in support of our customers, partners and collaborators future needs. If you have a suggestion for how we could work together then please get in touch with him.
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