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.
