Newcastle University

Qualifications

• PhD degree in Industrial Engineering, 2000
• MEng degree in Mechanical Engineering

Research Interests

• Railway engineering;
• Reliability and maintainability of mechanical systems;
• Manufacturing technologies (machining, welding and joining, non traditional technologies);
• Composites engineering.

Current Work

• Assessment of transport research capabilities and results (including market uptake) - TransNEW and ERRAC Roadmaps projects;

• Rolling stock (benchmarking, novel technical solutions, testing, etc.);

• Reliability analysis and probabilistic modelling;

• Prediction methodologies for the long term behaviour of composites systems.