Experts directory
A number of academic and professional experts from across WMG are available to comment and advise on a range of areas. They are available for interviews, commentary and other speaking opportunities.
If you are a journalist looking for an interviewee, please contact the University's Director of Press, Peter Dunn (07767 655860).
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Name | Role | Areas of expertise | Find out more... |
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Ahmad, Bilal | Senior Research Fellow |
Automation systems, manufacturing digitalisation, cyber physical systems |
Automation Systems |
Amor-Segan, Mark | Principal Engineer, WMG High Value Manufacturing Catapult |
Energy storage and management, vehicle energy systems, complex electronic and software systems, diagnostics, broad overview of electrification of transport and energy storage |
Transport Electrification |
Ascroft, Helen | Senior Teaching Fellow |
Lightweight materials and manufacturing |
Lightweight Materials and Manufacturing |
Auinger, Michael | Assistant Professor, Materials Modelling and Computation |
Thermodynamic modelling of high temperature reactions and electrochemical corrosion |
Steels Processing |
Arvanitis, Theo (Prof) |
Professor, E-Health Innovation, Institute for Digital Healthcare |
Health informatics and health data science. Healthcare technologies and biomedical engineering. |
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Attridge, Alex | Project Manager |
Product evaluation technologies |
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Ceglarek, Darek (Prof) |
Professor, Digital Lifecycle Management |
Digital Lifecycle Management (modelling and simulation, manufacturing processes) |
Digital Lifecycle Management |
(Prof) |
Professor |
Virtual business ecosystems, virtual organisation breeding environments, creating value through the internet, electronic markets and improving the success rate of IT projects |
Innovative Business Models |
Director of Client & Business Dev (East Asia) |
Education - overseas programmes (Malaysia) |
Overseas Programmes | |
Barai, Anup | Senior Research Fellow |
Power Electronics, Machines and Drives |
Power Electronics, Machines and Drives |
Brady, Matt | Associate Principal |
WMG Academy, young engineers, STEM subject, skills shortage |
WMG Academy for Young Engineers |
Chalmers, Alan (Prof) |
Professor, Visualisation |
Real virtuality; high dynamic range video; multi-sensory perception; visualisation; high fidelity computer graphics; parallel processing; virtual archaeology |
Visualisation |
Davis, Claire (Prof) | Tata Steel Chair in Thermo-mechanical Processing |
Microstructure and properties in steels - physical and mechanical, non-destructive testing |
Steels Processing |
Coles, Stuart | Associate Professor |
Sustainable materials and manufacturing |
Sustainable Materials and Manufacturing |
Clark, Robin | Education Director |
Education programmes - full-time Master's and part-time programmes |
Education |
Debattista, Kurt | Reader |
Research degrees |
Research Degrees |
Dhadyalla, Gunwant | Principal Engineer |
Cooperative autonomy, industry perspective on connected and autonomous vehicles, testing |
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Dianati, Mehrdad | Professor, Autonomous and Connected Vehicles |
Cooperative autonomy, connectivity and autonomous vehicles |
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Dowson, Martin | Principal Engineer |
Battery systems engineering |
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Gibbons, Greg (Dr) |
Reader | ALM, forensics, | Additive Layer Manufcturing |
Godsell, Jan (Prof) |
Professor, Operations and Supply Chain Strategy |
Dynamic supply chains including global supply chain strategy, globalisation, right-shoring, re-shoring, off-shoring, supply chain risk management, supply chain capabilities, manufacturing strategy, supplier management, collaboration, new product development, circular business models, re-manufacturing, big data in a supply chain context |
Dynamic Supply Chains |
(Prof) |
Professor, Advanced Propulsion Systems |
Battery scale-up and battery systems engineering, as well as a broad overview of automotive sector, energy storage, battery, power electronics, industry strategy automotive | Battery Systems Engineering |
Fox, John | Programme Director, Midlands Future Mobility | Intelligent Vehicles, Midlands Future Mobility | Midlands Future Mobility |
Harrison, Robert (Prof) |
Professor, Automation Systems |
Automation systems - manufacturing performance and data analytics - both automotive and aerospace sectors | Automation Systems |
Higgins, Matthew | Associate Professor | Connectivity and wireless vehicle communication | |
Hughes, Darren | Associate Professor | Lightweight materials and manufacturing including very light rail (VLR) |
Lightweight Materials and Manufacturing |
Jennings, Paul (Prof) |
Professor, Intelligent Vehicles | Intelligent vehicles including CAV, connected mobility, sound of vehicles and soundscape, driver behaviour; energy storage; product perception and user experience | Intelligent Vehicles |
Kampert, Erik | Senior Research Fellow | 5G millimetre-wave communication; connected and autonomous vehicles; industrial Internet of Things | Intelligent Vehicles |
Kendall, Ken (Prof) |
Professorial Fellow, Structural Composites |
Structural composites, engineering materials and manufacturing, lightweight materials for automotive | High Volume Automotive Composite Manufacturing |
Khastgir, Siddartha | Head of Verification and Validation, Intelligent Vehicles | Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) verification and validation; safety, test scenarios, simulation, safe AI, real-world testing, systems engineering, trust in automation, standardisation | Verification and Validation |
Kirwan, Kerry (Prof) |
Professor, Sustainable Materials |
Sustainable materials and manufacturing, biomaterials, polymer glazing, environmentally-friendly motorsport, industrial biotechnology, sustainable manufacturing; industrial symbiosis, battery recycling | Sustainable Materials and Manufacturing |
Loveridge, Mel | Senior Research Fellow | Electrochemical engineering, battery chemistry, cell materials | Electrochemical Materials |
Low, John | Associate Professor | Design, build, test, characterisation and post-mortem analysis of electrochemical energy storage devices | Battery Scale Up |
(Prof) |
Professor | Outreach, women in engineering, widening participation | Outreach |
MacPherson, Archie | CEO, WMG centre HVM Catapult | HVM Catapult, manufacturing, innovation and SMEs | Business Development |
(Prof) |
Professorial Teaching Fellow | Undergraduate education programmes, degree apprenticeships | Education |
Maple, Carsten (Prof) | Professor, Cyber Systems Engineering and Deputy Pro-Vice-Chancellor (North America) | Cyber security, cyber systems engineering, e-crime, online safety and security, business / national security | Cyber Security |
Marco, James | Reader | Battery recycling, energy management and vehicle control system | Battery Modelling and Control |
McGordon, Andy | Principal Engineer | Energy management and vehicle control system | Transport Electrification |
McMahon, Richard (Prof) | Professor of Power Electronics | Power electronics, machines and drives - charging, invertors, power switching plus broad overview electrical distribution networks, storage onto grid, energy industry - use and policy (electricity) | Power Electronics, Machines, and Drives |
McNally, Tony (Prof) |
Professor, Nanocomposites |
Polymer science, processing and nanocomposites; materials (macro- to micro- to nano-); nanoparticles | Nanocomposites |
Meyer, Caroline (Prof) | Professor, Behavioural Psychology in Digital Health, and Chair of the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine for the University of Warwick | Human behaviour, interactions with health-related technologies, digital interventions for health and behaviour change | Applied Psychology |
(Prof) |
Professor | Statistical modelling, data science, machine / deep learning, reinforcement learning | Data Science |
Newton, Mike | Director of Overseas Programmes | Education - overseas programmes | Overseas Programmes |
Ng, Irene (Prof) |
Professor, Service Systems |
Service systems; marketing; disruptive business models; digital economy; economic models | Service Ecosystems |
Parr, Sue | Business Development Director | Education programmes - degree apprenticeships and part-time programmes | Education |
Peijs, Ton | Professor of Polymer Technology and Director of the National Polymer Processing Centre at WMG | Materials and processing innovations in polymers and composites, plastics | Materials and Manufacturing |
Pratt, Jeff | UK BIC | Director of UK BIC | UK BIC |
Sanson, Jon | Lead Engineer | Cell engineering | Cell Engineering |
Schiller, Tara | Assistant Professor | Nanocomposites | Nanocomposites |
Simmonds, Helena | Lead Engineer | High volume automotive composite manufacturing | High Volume Automotive Composite Manufacturing |
Soulard, Juliette | Associate Professor, Electric Machines | Electric motors technology and how to manufacture | Power Electronics, Machines and Drives |
Swift, Mark (Dr) |
Head of SME Programmes, International Institute for Product and Service Innovation |
Small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs); business innovation; digital business; entrepreneurship; knowledge transfer; open innovation | SME Innovation |
Tague, Kate | Executive Principal | WMG Academy, women in engineering, young engineers, STEM subjects, skills shortage | WMG Academy |
Tait, Stewart | Associate Principal | WMG Academy, women in engineering, young engineers, STEM subjects, skills shortage | WMG Academy |
Watson, Tim (Prof) | Professor, Director of Cyber Security Centre | Cyber security; digital forensics | Cyber Security |
Warnett, Jay | Assistant Professor | X-ray Computed Tomography (XCT) | Metrology |
Weare, Rachael | Lead Engineer | High Volume Automotive Composite Manufacturing | High Volume Automotive Composite Manufacturing |
Widanalage, Dhammika | Assistant Professor | Lithium-ion battery modelling, electric vehicles and mechatronics using system identification methodologies as the foundation | Battery Systems Engineering |
Williams, Mark (Prof) |
Professor, Leader of the Centre for Imaging, Metrology, and Additive Technology (CiMAT) |
Reverse engineering, laser scanning, micro X-ray CT scanning, 3D modelling in forensics and archaeology, medical imaging |
Metrology |
Whiffin, Phil |
Programme and Project Manager |
Vehicle propulsion systems | Vehicle Propulsion Systems |