Our team
Professor Steve Brown, Swansea University
Principle Investigator and Work Package 1 Lead
Professor Claire Davis, Warwick Manufacturing Group
Co-investigator, Warwick Lead
Dr Didier Farrugia, Scientific Fellow, Tata Steel
Project Manager - Technical Lead
Dr Hollie Cockings, Lecturer, Swansea University
Co-investigator, high temperature oxidation
Professor Dave Penney, Swansea University
Co-investigator, corrosion and coatings
Dr Will Harrison, Lecturer, Swansea University
Co-investigator, computational modelling
Dr Jiaqi Duan, Warwick Manufacturing Group
Research Fellow, Work Package 4
Professor Nick Lavery, Swansea University
Co-investigator, Work Package 2 Lead
Dr Martin Strangwood, Senior Lecturer, Birmingham University
Co-investigator, computational modelling
Dr Santosh Kumar, Swansea University
Technology Transfer Fellow, Work Package 3
Dr Zushu Li, Reader/EPSRC Fellow, WMG
Co-investigator, Work Package 4 Lead
Associate Professor Michael Auinger WMG
Co-investigator, modelling and oxidation
Dr Mazher Yar, Swansea University
Post-doctoral researcher, Work Package 2
Professor Cameron Pleydell-Pearce, Swansea University
Co-investigator, Work Package 3 Lead
Dr Liz Sackett, Lecturer, Swansea University
Co-investigator, WP5 EngD Co-ordinator
Dr Lintao Zhang
Post-doctoral research, Work Package 1
Bharath Bandi, Warwick Manufacturing Group
Research Assistant, Work Package 3
Professor Dave Worsley, Swansea University, Vice President
Innovation and Technical Lead
Professor James Sullivan, Swansea University
Technical lead, corrosion
Dr Laura Baker, Tata Steel, Head - Product Management & Development, Technical Lead
Dr Richard Underhill, Tata Steel, Principle Metallurgist
Technical lead
Steve Thornton, Tata Steel, Scientific Fellow
Data Science and Analytics
Byron Tucker, Tata Steel RD&T Business Integration
R&D Business Integration
Dr Peter Evans, Tata Steel, Mechanical Design
Technical Lead
Jasper Patel, Tata Steel, Programme/Resource Manager
Our Students
Liam Moody, Swansea University
Supervisor: Dr Liz Sackett
Tristan Hearsey
Supervisor: Dr Will Harrison
Lauren McLean, Swansea University
Supervisor: Dr Hollie Cockings
Nicola Beech, University of Warwick
Supervisor: Dr Michael Auinger
Ondi Mukherjee, University of Warwick
Supervisor: Dr Martin Strangwood