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London, Gb

London, Uk

Fab Materials' mission is to enable planet scale fashion recycling.Our technology will turn low-grade post-consumer fashion waste into a valuable feedstock for a range of circular materials.

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Biozeroc is a biomaterials company using a low-cost highly-scalable bioprocess to bring carbon negative materials to the construction industry.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Working across disciplines leading the development of novel products and processes.Building teams and driving the requirements, ideation, design & characterisation of new to world products.Projects:• Due diligence on IP and technology acquisitions• Characterisation and model development of pharmaceutical process at pilot-scale• Development of a highly novel automated cell-therapy manufacturing system• Inventing & realising low-cost smart patch for transdermal drug delivery• Manufacturing process optimisation of a ground-breaking PCR Instrument

Royston, United Kingdom

Working on projects/collaborations involving;• Fluidics & particle separation• Thermal & sensing• Technology reviews & Invention development

Cambridge, United Kingdom/Lausanne, Switzerland

Development of disruptive innovations

Cambridge, United Kingdom

• Specified, project managed and led the integration of Owlstone's novel sensors into two products.• Technical Project Manager and Technical Authority of a multidisciplinary engineering team encompassing scientists, mechanical & software engineers and algorithm developers to achieve results on extremely tight schedules.• Pioneered the transition of the technology from the lab into real world systems.• Design of thermal & fluidic systems, characterisation of complex systems, failure analysis & transfer to production.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

• Developed Owlstone's novel chemical sensor & aligned with industry standard interfaces.• Invented and developed a novel corona discharge ionisation giving a ten-fold cost saving.• Optimised systems using multi-physics modelling.• Designed, conducted and standardised experiments.• Developed fabrication & assembly processes from scratch to transfer to production.

Working in the micro devices group developing low-cost fluidic systems for;micro-fluidic diagnostics,micro-droplet generation for inhalation,miniature liquid and gas pumps for a variety of applications (including co-inventor of TTP's award winning Disc Pump technology),and the sensors and systems enabling these elements.

Leuven

Design of test reticles for advanced optical lithography (193mn).This was part of an international project characterising of electrical versus electron microscope line width measurements.

Worked alongside the lithography group in university holidays. Implemented Statistical Process Control for a critical lithography step in a volume DRAM process leading to improved yield.

M.Phil - Applied Physics With Engineering, Semiconductor Processing & Manufacture

B.Sc. Natural Sciences, Applied Physics With Engineering, First Class