You can see further details here and how to register if you’ve not yet secured your place.
Two of our speakers who’ve recently been confirmed are Professor Anne Neville, Director of the newly formed Institute of Functional Surfaces (iFS) which comprises 80 researchers. The Institute has a funding portfolio that spans many agencies and industrial sectors including medical, oil and gas & automotive. Anne was also elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2005 and FREng 2010. She was awarded the Donald Julius Groen Prize for Tribology in 2012, the 2014 STLE Wilbert Shultz Prize, Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2013 and was selected as an EPSRC RISE Fellow in 2014. She was the first woman to be awarded the James Clayton Prize and Royal Society Leverhulme medal in 2016. In the New Year’s Honours in 2017 she was awarded OBE.
Our other final speaker is Dr Malcolm Fox who is Research and Development Manager at Nylacast Ltd., Leicester, producer of low friction polymer
engineering components for sub-sea oil and gas, construction vehicles and many other applications, also a major world producer of composite steel/polymer gears for Electric Power Steering and Braking systems.
He is also a RAE Visiting Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering at Bradford. Previously he was a Visiting Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Leeds; prior to that, he was Kuwait Petroleum Professor of Lubricant Technology at De Montfort University, Leicester. At de Montfort he worked with Nylacast through four Knowledge Transfer Partnerships to develop low friction polymers for industrial applications. He is currently developing cost-effective polymer formulations for higher torque/temperature applications for automotive Electric Power Steering systems'.
We will also have a full poster session on each of the two days as well, in addition to hearing from last year’s poster winners with an update on what they’ve been doing by way of research since 2018. There will also be lots of networking opportunities in the Waterside Room where you can also catch up with all of our exhibitors as well.
This year we are offering free places for the conference to students, who can register via the above link.
I hope to see those of you who came along to our event in 2018 and also welcome new delegates to the 2019 conference.