Archives: Speakers

Professor Giorgia Franchin   Giorgia Franchin is an assistant professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Padova. In 2017 she obtained a PhD in Industrial Engineering, also from the University of Padova. During her PhD studies she worked at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology…

Degree qualified engineer (civil engineering) and member of Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (MCIPS) Extensive experience in Procurement and Engineering roles across various manufacturing sectors Joined Johnson Tiles as Engineering Buyer in 2000 and became Production & Procurement Director in 2022 taking responsibility for all Procurement, Manufacturing…

Ian M. Reaney (IMR, PI) is a Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society and the IOM3, and Dyson Chair in Ceramics at UoS. He is European Site Director for the US National Science Foundation Centre for Dielectrics and Piezoelectrics. He has won numerous awards, such as the Verulam…

Professor Lorna Anguilano workshop on: Sustainable Recovery for Circular Economy Lorna Anguilano is a senior research fellow at the Experimental Techniques Centre and the co-director of the Wolfson Centre for sustainable material development and processing at Brunel University London and she is the director and chief scientific officer…

Presenting In-Situ Alloying during Additive Manufacturing: Research Opportunities and Technical Challenges Professor Moataz Attallah holds a chair in advanced materials processing at the School of Metallurgy and Materials University of Birmingham. His research focuses on developing a metallurgical understanding of the material-process interaction in additive manufacturing of metallic…

Presenting Materials Challenges Old and New in the Offshore Energy Sector Dr Andrew Leonard is a Chartered Engineer with a track record in delivering multi-million-dollar ($MM) materials and welding engineering solutions in upstream Oil and Gas. He has led diverse, geographically spread materials, corrosion and welding teams on…

Presenting Experimental and Numerical Studies on the Impact Performance of Composite Materials John has been an academic for 34 years in the Mechanics of Materials Division of the Department of Mechanical Engineering and is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Prior to joining Imperial in 1988, John was an…