Paul Allen Centre for Alternative Technology Welsh Crucible 2019 Paul qualified as an electrical and electronic engineer at Liverpool University. He joined the Centre for Alternative Technology in 1988, developing a wide range of renewable energy systems including solar-medical systems for use overseas. Paul has led their ground-breaking Zero Carbon Britain research since 2006; liaising
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Mark Eaton Cardiff University Welsh Crucible 2014 Mark was awarded an MEng in mechanical engineering from Cardiff University, where he subsequently went on to complete his PhD. He now works as a postdoctoral research associate in the structural performance research group within Cardiff School of Engineering. His research has predominantly focussed on detecting damage in
Peter Theobald Cardiff University Welsh Crucible 2013 Peter obtained a BEng Medical Engineering from the University of Bradford (2003), and a PhD (focussing on soft tissue injury biomechanics) from Cardiff University (2006). He has also earned a PGCert in University Teaching & Learning (2012) and is a Chartered Engineer. Peter was a post-doc at Cardiff
Rubén Sevilla Swansea University Welsh Crucible 2013 Rubén graduated in Mathematics in the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC). He completed his PhD on Applied Mathematics in the UPC and combined his research with teaching activities in four different degrees and one master. He then moved to Swansea University where he was appointed as a research
Sophie Schirmer Swansea University Welsh Crucible 2013 Sophie graduated from the University of Oregon with a PhD in Mathematics in 2000. After a short stint at the Open University, she joined the University of Cambridge as a Cambridge-MIT fellow in 2002. In 2006 she was awarded an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship, and in 2011 she
Richard Johnston Swansea University Welsh Crucible 2013 Richard is a senior lecturer in the Materials Research Centre, Swansea University. Embracing a multidisciplinary approach, Richard’s research has taken him from artificial intelligence in manufacturing, through gas turbine materials (abradables, nickel superalloys, ceramic matrix composites), and on to X-ray microtomography. He has recently set up the new
Clare Wood Swansea University Welsh Crucible 2012 Clare studied a MEng in Civil Engineering with Architecture at Glasgow University and then went on to complete a postgraduate MRes and PhD in Computational Modelling for Engineering at Swansea University. Clare continued her research at Swansea University as a Research Officer, working on a variety of projects
Vincent Teng Swansea University Welsh Crucible 2012 Vincent obtained his BEng degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering at Swansea University and subsequently completed his PhD at the same institution investigating nanoscale electronic materials using scanning probe microscopy techniques. Presently, he is a lecturer at Swansea University and heads the Nanoelectronics Research Group within the Multidisciplinary
Akintunde Babatunde University of Leeds (formerly Cardiff University) Welsh Crucible 2012 Akintunde obtained his PhD from the discipline of Civil Engineering, University College Dublin, Ireland in December 2007. His research work resulted in the design and development of a novel engineered wetland system with enhanced capacity for wastewater treatment and it is currently on demonstration
Raoul van Loon Swansea University Welsh Crucible 2011 Raoul obtained his BSc and MSc in mechanical engineering at University of Technology in Eindhoven. His dissertation project was on the swelling behaviour of intervertebral discs. After this taster in biomedical engineering he decided to complete a PhD on modelling of the aortic valve in the bioengineering
