Advisory Council

Chair & President

Kate Thornton

Senior Vice-President

Christine Blackmore CEnv CSci FIMMM

Vice-President

Graham Ormondroyd FIMMM

Vice-President

Mike Clinch FIMMM

Email:

[email protected]

Honorary Treasurer

Thomas Hill MIMMM

Email:

[email protected]

IOM3 CEO

Colin Church CEnv FIMMM

Chair - IOM3 Natural Materials Group

Parvez Alam

Chair, IOM3 Packaging Group

Jude Allan

Jude started as a packaging technologist at the drinks division of Mars before taking the experience of life as a client over to the world of a packaging design agency.

For almost 20 years Jude championed and led the production and creative operations at jonesknowlesrtichie as it grew from a London based packaging design agency to a global design business with offices in London, New York, Singapore and Shanghai.

Jude and her team were responsible for delivering creative packaging designs into market for a wide range of much-loved brands from global favourites to local heroes as well as launching new start-up brands.

Working closely with brands such as Budweiser, Mars, Molton Brown, McVitie’s, Dulux paints and Hippeas, she has a rich and varied experience of the packaging industry, the challenges of innovation and the needs of brand owners to respond to their consumers demands.

 In 2018 she took on the role of chief operating officer at a start-up engineering agency in London with a manufacturing and project management office in Shenzhen, China. She spent a frenetic eighteen months at RPD International professionalising the business and developing the skills of a young group of entrepreneurs and engineers.

Jude now chairs the IOM3 Packaging Group.

She has a BEng in Materials Science and the IOM3 Diploma of Packaging Technology.

Chair - IOM3 Polymer Group

Sally Beken

Sally Beken has been active in knowledge transfer and business support for the polymer community for over 20 years having joined Faraday Plastics (a networking organisation) in 2003. She previously worked in the medical industry developing polymer medical devices with new formulations to reduce impact on the ozone layer.  Having spent many years working with polymer experts she has an extensive personal network to draw upon from both the academic and business communities to facilitate the changes we need in the sustainability of polymeric materials and innovation for future polymer products. Her Ph.D. was in the modification and pyrolysis of polymer compounds, and she has an honorary role as Professor at Brunel University. Her current role at Innovate UK Business Connect includes strategic interventions to support and shape projects involving multiple stakeholders from the polymer supply chain from SMEs and academics to major retailers. She was deeply involved in the set-up of the £60m IUK Smart Sustainable Plastics Packaging challenge and has supported multiple polymer innovators during the challenge delivery phase. She founded and runs the UK Circular Plastics Network a community working to ensure that less plastics waste enters the environment or is sent to landfill.

Chair - IOM3 Applied Earth Science Group

Rob Bowell

Rob Bowell obtained BSc from Manchester and PhD from Southampton universities in the UK. Background in mining industry first in coal in the UK, then base metals and gold in Namibia, Ghana, South Africa, Tanzania and USA and tin-tungsten in Portugal. Has worked for SRK Consulting as a geochemist for 29 years applying mineralogy and geochemistry to solving engineering problems in mining and processing. Rob has been an IMM member since 1996 and a Fellow since 2014.  Also, a Fellow of the Society of Economic Geology, Geological Society of London and Association of Applied Geochemists where he held office of councillor, vice president, president and past president.  Also a member and charted chemist through Royal Society of Chemistry, Member of Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and the International Mine Water Association. Currently also registered as a professional geoscientist in Europe, Canada and Namibia.

Currently holds an adjunct professorship at Queens University, Ontario, Canada. Research interests in supergene oxidation of sulfide deposits, solution mining and hydrogeochemistry. When he is not working, he enjoys Tai Chi, hiking, walking an elderly dog,  gardening and mineral collecting.

Chair - IOM3 Defence Safety & Security Group

Duncan Broughton

Chair - IOM3 Elastomer Group

James Busfield

Chair - IOM3 Ceramics Group

Emma Claxton

Chair - IOM3 Mining Technology Group

Colin Comberbach

Chair - IOM3 Energy Materials Group

Judith Driscoll

Chair - IOM3 Minerals Processing & Extractive Materials Group

Hylke Glass

Chair - IOM3 Biomedical Applications Group

Paul Hatton

Chair - IOM3 Composites Group

Paul Hogg

Chair - IOM3 Materials Processing & Manufacturing Group

Mark Jolly

Chair - IOM3 Construction Materials Group

Flavie Lowres

Chair - IOM3 Energy Transition Group

Tony Palmer

Chair - IOM3 Iron & Steel Group

Jitendra Patel

Chair - IOM3 Non Ferrous & Light Metals Group

Cheryll Pitt

Chair - IOM3 Wood Technology Group

Morwenna Speer

Chair - IOM3 Adhesion & Adhesives Group

Ambrose Taylor

Chair - IOM3 Sustainable Development Group

Matthew Thomas

Chair - IOM3 Surface Technologies Group

Ping Xiao

Chair - IOM3 Materials Characterisation & Properties Group

Ben Xu

Fellow Grade

Paul Withey

Member Grade

Lucy England

Member Grade

Jason Webb

Associate Grade

Caitlin Fitzpatrick

Student Grade

Sam Burdett MIMMM

Sam currently works as a Carbon Manager at Skanska UK in London. His work focuses on delivering life cycle assessments for building projects in the UK. He also provides technical expertise on materials, construction methods and the environmental impact of these. He studied Materials Science and Engineering at Imperial College London. Whist in his previous role at Sandberg, performing materials failure analysis for the construction and infrastructure, he completed a master’s in advanced Materials for Sustainable Infrastructure (2020-22) at Imperial. His research focuses on novel and existing construction materials with the goal of creating a unified dataset that highlights the most sustainable materials for use in industry.

Sam is a keen advocate for engineering and passionate about educating people new to the industry. He is involved with ZERO, an innovation focused industry group working together to change the industry from high carbon emissions to becoming part of the decarbonisation solution.

Outside of work Sam spends lots of time cycling and is currently building a gravel bike to take on off-road adventures!

Student Grade

Hannah Hilton-Tapp

Technician Grade

Vacancy

Affiliate Grade

Joanne Copping

Scotland Regional Representative

Tiziana Marrocco

North East Regional Representative

Darron Dixon-Hardy

Email:

[email protected]

North West Regional Representative

Gemma Dixon

Email:

[email protected]

Midlands Regional Representative

Kate Fox

Email:

[email protected]

South East Regional Representative

Nilmini Dissanayake

South West Regional Representative

Peter Saxby

Email:

[email protected]

Overseas Regional Representative

Brendan Costello

Chair, WIM3

Margaret Wegrzyn

Margaret finished a degree in Materials Science and Engineering, and a PhD in piezoelectric ceramics, both at the University of Manchester. Having successfully completed these, she went to work at Morgan Advanced Materials, where she developed a new dielectric material for power applications, technology analysis of additive manufacturing (3D printing) in ceramics, and subsequently moved into a commercial role in 2015 as New Business Development Manager of Ceramic Injection Moulding.

She then moved to the world of polymers as Business Development Manager at Zotefoams plc, developing material solutions for customers all over continental Europe in various markets from aerospace to sports to medical applications. She is currently International Sales Manager 3D printers specialising in ceramic and metal additive manufacturing, working with academia and industry.

Outside of work, Margaret trains and dances all over Europe with a Polish Dance group, enjoys travelling around the world and attends various sports events throughout the year.

Chair, Student & Early Career Group (SECG)

Ilija Rašović

Chair, Ably Different in Materials Minerals & Mining (ADM3)

Martin Griffin

Chair, Ethnic Minorities in Materials, Minerals & Mining (EMM3)

Ajay Kapadia

Chair, IOM3Pride

Dr Emily Radley AIMMM

Emily studied Chemistry for their undergraduate degree at the University of Sussex and then went on to complete a doctorate in Materials Engineering, researching Stress Whitening in Pre-Coated Metal Systems at Swansea University. 

Emily joined IOM3 in 2014 and first got involved through Swansea's local society, the SWMA. Emily founded IOM3Pride in 2020 and is now Chair of the group. After a varied career, as a Technical Manager and Chemistry and Mathematics teacher, Emily now works at DE&S as a Project Manager. In their spare time, if they find any, they enjoy trampolining, cycling and real ale.