Deputy Head of School of Engineering and Materials Science, Director of Strategy, Member of the Executive Team since 2000.
Qualifications
2000 PhD from Queen Mary University of London, UK entitled "The Prediction of the Mechanical Performance of
1989 MA degree in Engineering Science, Worcester College, Oxford University, UK
Teaching
MAT602 / MTR011 - Material Selection in Design (1998 - present) Level: 6/7 Average No. of students: 300
Research
Head of the Soft Matter Group at Queen Mary University of London since 1994. The group currently includes four research
External Recognition
2023 Chairman of the global “RubberCon 2023” Conference, Edinburgh, UK
2021 George Stafford Whitby Award for Distinguished Teaching & Research by the American Chemical Society
2010 - Associate Editor of Plastics, Rubber and Composites: Macromolecular Engineering
2009 National Teaching Fellow Awarded
2009 Colwyn Medal awarded for rubber research by the IOM3 2007 - Chairman of the IOM3 Elastomer Group
Journal Paper Outputs
157 papers listed on Google Scholar, including 26 in the last three years. Five recent papers are highlighted:
1. Gabriele Frediani, Hugh Boys, Michele Ghilardi, Stefan Poslad, James JC Busfield & Federico Carpi, “A Soft Touch:
2. JM Costa, M Ghilardi, V Mamone, V Ferrari, JJC Busfield, A Ahluwalia & F Carpi “Bioreactor with electrically deformable
3. Y Liu, E Asare, H Porwal, E Barbieri, S Goutianos, J Evans, M Newton, JJC Busfield, T Peijs, H Zhang, E Bilotti, “The Effect
4. Francesca Carleo, Jan Plagge, Roly Whear, James JC Busfield and Manfred Klüppel, "Modelling the Full Time-Dependent
5. Michele Ghilardi, Hugh Boys, Peter Török, James JC Busfield & Federico Carpi " Smart Lenses with Electrically Tuneable
Astigmatism,” Scientific Reports, 2019,9.