Leigh Sutherland Email & Phone Number

Lisbon Area, Portugal

- Over 25 years of experimentally-based engineering research in the field of marine composites.- Design, construction and commissioning of laboratories and servo-hydraulic mechanical testing equipment.- Creation and teaching of MSc Course ‘Composite Vessels’.- Design, construction and commissioning of two 27m carbon yards for the Lateen rigged Portuguese Caravel historic replica ‘Vera Cruz’NB with short interlude as a UK trainee Physics high-school teacher (see following position)

Clacton, Uk

On the job 'training' as a high-school physics teacher for ages 11 to 18.

Southampton, United Kingdom

- Set-up of of £1.5Million Transport Systems Research Laboratory- Design & set-up of Composites Production Laboratory.- Commissioning of Environmental Hygro-Thermal Equipment for accelerated ageing of composite materials.- Academic posts responsible for student admissions and examinations at University of Southampton.- Towing / wave tank testing of ship models (undergraduate teaching & research).- Tuition and supervision of Undergraduate, MSc and MPhil/PhD students.

Lisbon Area, Portugal

Marine Composite Materials testing and research

Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Ship Science & Statistics

Doctorate, "An Investigation into Composites Size Effects using Statistically Designed Experiments", Department of Ship Science.

Master Of Science (Msc), Maritime Engineering Science

M.Sc. in Maritime Engineering Science, Department of Ship Science Thesis: "Hydrodynamics of Windsurfer fins", towing tank testing.

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.Eng.), Chemical Engineering

A-Levels, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, A, A, A