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Meet The Team

Professor Mark Williams CT RTP Director (M.A.Williams.1@warwick.ac.uk)

  • Professor Mark Williams is Leader of the Centre for imaging, Metrology, and Additive Technology (CiMAT) at WMG and the CT RTP Director. His role involves the delivery of Metrology, Additive Manufacturing and Visualisation research projects across a wide range of industries.
  • Prof Williams has managed a diverse portfolio of Research and Development projects totalling over £40M funded by EPSRC, AHRC, InnovateUK, HVM Catapult and EU within the Automotive, Aerospace, Healthcare, Defence and Law Enforcement sectors. These projects involved collaborating with a number of industrial partners and their supply chains; including Jaguar Land Rover, Nikon Metrology, Tata Motors, Morgan Advanced Materials, BAE Systems, Autodesk, and HoloVis. This research has led to the publication of over 200 academic papers published in peer reviewed journals and presented at international conferences.
  • Current research interests include Advanced Measurement Systems, 3D Visualisation, Digital Prototyping, and the Human Machine Interface (HMI). Recent projects has seen a diversification into the domain of Criminal Forensics working on high profile Homicide cases with West Midlands Police and digital conservation within Heritage and Archaeology sectors.
  • He is also Co-Director for the £10 million X-ray Computed Tomography National Research Facility (NRF) funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).
  • Prof Williams served his time as a Technician Apprentice at GEC Alsthom and studied Mechanical Engineering at Nottingham Trent University. He then received a PhD in Engineering from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology (UMIST) in 1998. Mark is a also a Chartered Engineer (CEng) and Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (FIMechE) and has worked within a wide range of industries as a Dimensional Control consultant

Dr Alex Attridge CT RTP Manager (A.Attridge@warwick.ac.uk)

  • Dr Alex Attridge is a Project Manager for the Digital Validation and Verification theme of WMG's centre for the High Value Manufacturing Catapult.
  • Dr Attridge has over 10 years' experience in automotive R&D, with specific expertise and publications in the fields of immersive design visualisation, human machine interface evaluation, and quality inspection and metrology.
  • Dr Attridge currently manages WMG's metrology and visualisation Centre of Excellence and a number of R&D projects with industrial partners.
   

Associate RTP Staff

Dr Paul Wilson (Paul.Wilson@warwick.ac.uk)

  • I have a strong background in earth sciences, having completed my BSc (Hons) in Geology at Cardiff University and my MSc in Palaeobiology at the University of Bristol. 
  • I completed my PhD in 2019 in Engineering at the University of Warwick, specialising in the application of X-Ray CT and 3D printing for enhancing the museum visitor experience. 
  • I have a very diverse research portfolio, ranging from palaeontology, engineering, cultural heritage and other disciplines. 
  • I am currently working as an X-Ray CT Specialist at CiMAT, responsible for managing and implementing the projects coming in through National Research Facility for X-ray Computed Tomography (NXCT).  
  • I work on a wide variety of different applications of Micro-CT, including batteries, composites, palaeontology, cultural heritage and other niche applications under the NXCT scheme.