Elastomers in Energy Transition

Prof James Busfield FREng FIMMM FHEA

Head of the Soft Matter Group, Queen Mary University of London

James has been the Head of the Soft Matter Group at QMUL since 1994. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2020 and a National Teaching Fellow in 2009. He has also been recognised for his research by the award of the George Stafford Whitby Award (awarded to outstanding international teachers of polymer science and recognising innovative research by the ACS ) in 2021, the Colwyn Medal (the premier medal for rubber research awarded by the IOM3) in 2009 and the Sparks-Thomas Award (recognising outstanding contributions and innovations in the field of elastomers by the ACS) in 2010. Before 1994, James designed suspension components for an automotive industry supply company, designing systems for companies such as Jaguar, Volvo and Mercedes

: https://www.sems.qmul.ac.uk/staff/j.busfield
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Dr Roly Whear BEng CEng FIMMM FIMechE

Technical Specialist, Jaguar Land Rover

Technical Specialist at Jaguar Land Rover for suspension bushes and anti-vibration mounting systems.

Primary interest in the engineering of bushes and mounts for automotive applications

Dr Frank Abraham

Head of Building Engineering, TU Dublin

Prior to joining TU Dublin in 2022, Dr Abraham was an Associate Professor in Mechanical and Marine Engineering at the School of Engineering, Plymouth University and an Associate Head of the School of Marine Science and Engineering at Plymouth University.  While in Plymouth University he was responsible for the Mechanical & Marine Engineering subject group as well as overseeing the Civil and Coastal Engineering group.

Previous roles include a Senior Lecturer at the University of Portsmouth as well as a Researcher and part-time Tutor/Lecturer at University of Oxford, St Anne’s College, St Hilda’s College of the University of Oxford, University of Dundee, Automotive Competence Centre of the Heilbronn University of Applied Sciences, Germany, German Institute of Rubber Technology, DIK, Hannover and the University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hannover, Germany.

Dr. Abraham’s research interests include sustainable engineering, renewable energy and heating systems technology as well as low energy/energy saving technologies for buildings, including building automation, Industry 4.0, innovation, design of testing facilities for products, including human implants, prostheses and materials and sustainable engineering design, automotive & tyre technology, fracture mechanics, fatigue life testing and simulation.

Dr Martin Bellander

Technical Manager Elastomers, Scania CV AB, Södertälje, Sweden

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Dr Ben Alcock

Research Manager, SINTEF Industry

Materials and Nanotechnology

Gunnlaugur (‘G’) Erlendsson

Founder & CEO, ENSO

Gunnlaugur (‘G’) Erlendsson is the Founder & CEO of ENSO. ENSO is a tyre technology company that makes better tyres for electric vehicles (EVs), to make EVs more successful by extending their range, while reducing tyre pollution, a major source of air and microplastic pollution. ENSO is the only Certified B-Corporation in the tyre industry and delivers its high-performance EV tyres directly to customers, helping to make EVs more commercially successful by reducing their total cost of operations, as well as the emissions from their tyres. ENSO was recently nominated by HRH Prince William for the Earthshot Prize and now expanding its US operations in partnership with UBER, to deliver affordable, ultra-efficient and low-emission tyres. G is responsible for developing ENSO’s vision, building its team and coordinating key partnerships with leading EV carmakers and large EV fleets.

Tom Mackay

Senior Mechanical Engineer/Engineering Consultant, Tension Technology International Ltd / TTI Marine Renewables Ltd.

Tom Mackay is a Senior Mechanical Engineer / Engineering Consultant for Tension Technology International Ltd. He has previously held senior engineering roles at AWS Ocean Energy and Perkins Engines (Caterpillar). Throughout his 18-year career he has focussed on the development of innovative engineering solutions using both physical modelling/testing and numerical/analytical approaches. For TTI he is responsible for carrying out detailed engineering design and analysis of hardware systems for large oil and gas and marine renewables projects and detail design of all TTI Testing test rigs. He is the system developer of the NetBuoy concept and has been the lead engineer throughout, from inception to field test stage that it is currently in.

: www.tensiontech.com
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Dr Ieuan Collins MEng

Innovation Engineer, Wave Energy Scotland

Ieuan is an Innovation Engineer at WES, working on the latest cutting-edge wave energy technologies and cross-sector collaboration. After completing a PhD in Mechanical Engineering investigating flexible structures for wave energy in 2023, Ieuan joined the WES team where he has been actively involved on the Direct Generation program and Wind-Wave co-location opportunities.

: www.waveenergyscotland.co.uk