Elastomers in Biomedical Devices

Prof Frederik Claeyssens

Professor, School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering, University of Sheffield

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Prof Laurence Brassart

Professor, Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford

Laurence Brassart is an Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford, and a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow. Her research interests lie in the development of physics-based constitutive models for engineering materials, with emphasis on multiphysics and multiscale aspects. Her current research focuses on polymers, hydrogels, composites and energy materials.

Dr Lucy Bosworth

Tenure-track Fellow, Department of Eye and Vision, Institute of Life Course and Medical Science, University of Liverpool

Dr Lucy Bosworth is a Tenure-track Fellow in the Department of Eye and Vision Science at the University of Liverpool.  As a Biomaterials Scientist, she has dedicated much of her career to developing innovative scaffold materials for tissue regeneration.  Her work primarily focuses on electrohydrodynamic fabrication techniques — specifically electrospinning and melt electrowriting — to create fibrous scaffolds that mimic the extracellular matrix, thereby providing a conducive environment for cell growth and tissue repair.

Prof Anne Ladegaard Skov

Professor, Danish Polymer Centre at the Department of Chemical Engineering

Dr Anne Ladegaard Skov is a full professor and head of the Danish Polymer Centre at the Department of Chemical Engineering. Her most significant contribution to science is her work on understanding electromechanical and chemical fundamentals of dielectric elastomers, i.e. elastomers undergoing large motion in high electrical fields in which field she has published more than 100 publications. She also works with the design of novel silicone elastomers where she was the first to prepare silicone elastomers with significant fractions of liquid inside enabling novel applications, including the presented foam technology.

Prof James Busfield FREng FIMMM FHEA

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

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Dr Matthew Thornton

Commercial Manager, The Bridge, University of Lincoln

Dr Matthew Thornton

Commercial Manager – The Bridge, University of Lincoln

Matthew is the Commercial Manager for The Bridge at The University of Lincoln, responsible for linking engineering and materials science businesses across the East Midlands and beyond both with each other and with experts at the University of Lincoln to undertake world-leading, collaborative research and development in advanced materials science and engineering.

Prior to joining the University of Lincoln as the Commercial Manager for The Bridge, Matthew was the Chief Innovation Officer for Polymateria Ltd based in London, where he was responsible for new product development in partnership with commercial customers to ensure that the companies research is commercially focussed and meets the requirements of our customers to deliver value for the business in the short, medium, and long-term, with a focus on strategic direction and innovation.

Matthew has a BSc (Hons) in Chemistry with Chemical Engineering from the University of Huddersfield, UK (2001) and a PhD in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Nottingham, UK (2005). Following his studies Matthew spent 18 months as a KTP Associate at the University of Reading, researching novel materials for the removal of mercury from crematoria flue gases, before spending 7 years at the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining as both a Materials Advisor and the Polymer Sector Leader for the Materials Knowledge Transfer Network.

He joined NetComposites Ltd in August 2013 as a Project Manager and was responsible for the management of several UK Government and EU funded collaborative research and development projects. In April 2016, Matthew joined Haydale Composite Solutions as UK Site and Innovation Director and was responsible for both the Haydale Group Innovation Department and the Resins, Polymers and Composites Business Unit.

Matthew is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, a Chartered Environmentalist, he has a Postgraduate Diploma in Business Administration from the Open University, UK (2022), and is the Secretary-General for the International Rubber Conference Organisation.

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Prof Paul Hatton

Professor of Biomaterials Science, University of Sheffield

Paul Hatton is the Chair for the Biomedical Materials Applications Group, and a Professor of Biomaterials Science at the University of Sheffield where he is also the Director of Research & Innovation for the Faculty of Health. He is a leading academic in the field, with an international reputation for  research into materials for applications in delivery of advanced therapeutics and musculoskeletal tissue regeneration. He also works closely with industry, and has made key contributions to the development of three medical devices alongside advising on product safety and innovation.

Dr Mokarram Hossain

Swansea University

Dr Hossain’s research interests lie in the wide and interdisciplinary areas of soft polymeric and active multifunctional materials (electro-active polymers, magneto-active polymers, light-activated polymers, active hydrogels etc), ranging from material synthesis, experimental study (e.g. multi-axial and multi-field fatigue fracture study of soft polymers) to computational modelling. He is active in field of clean energy harvesting using soft polymers. He received significant amount of research grants both from UKRI and industries in the field of soft polymers.