Peter Dowding Email & Phone Number

Abingdon

- Global leadership of external collaborative ecosystem: Bringing together diverse skillsets to deliver business impact through innovative collaborative research across different timeframes. - Securing funding (both Government and Industry) for >50 ongoing collaborations- Leader of company Innovation Platforms: running cross-functional campaigns.

Abingdon, Oxfordshire

• Responsible for step-out innovation/ business-business research collaborations
• Leader for long ranging research activity for development of next generation lubricant additives.
• Act as company expert/ consultant in surfactants, colloids, physical chemistry and computer modelling to identify and develop step-out technologies (including leveraging ideas/ expertise from other industries/ fields)
• Provide mechanistic understanding/ scientific solutions for product and process related issues
• New scientific method evaluation, including use of central facilities (x-ray/ neutrons for imaging, diffraction and scattering)
• Primary external contact, with responsibility for overseeing ~15 university collaborations

• Principal Scientist in New Business Development Group leading projects for various business areas
• Responsible for technical development for Surfactants Platfrom, running 3 parallel projects and providing consultancy for others
• Primary customer facing scientist for surfactant area

• Leader for fundamental “blue sky” development of colloidal additives for application in future generations of additives used in lubricants
• Successfully produced detailed technology plans and stewarded research projects against agreed deliverables and budgets, communicated with internal stakeholders and liaised with external customers
• Research Interests include: surfactant stabilised systems, steric stabilisation, surfactancy, controlled release, supercritical fluids and properties of asphaltenes
• Experience of securing IP: filed 7 patents, contributed to 2 books, published 15 papers and given 16 conference presentations (including four as invited/ keynote speaker)
• Primary external academic contact for Infineum, responsible for establishing, managing and securing funding for external collaborative academic programs
• Team Manager/ supervisor for three graduate scientists

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Bristol, United Kingdom

Collaborative research involving colloid and interface science. Securing research funding and promoting/ developing industrial links with the school of chemistry.

School Of Process, Environmental And Materials Engineering

This post involves building links between industry and academia (across schools within Leeds), building collaborative research programs involving non-competing companies and leveraging funding. The post also involves teaching (undergraduate and post-graduate students) and on training courses.

• 1999-2000. Science Research Fellowship with Zeneca.
• 1996-1999. EU BRITE-Euram Project. with Amersham Pharmacia Biotech
• 1995. EPSRC Funded Research Associate with the University of Hull.
• Responsible for running Prof. Vincent’s research laboratory with responsibilities for safety, supervision and progress of four post-doctoral and nine graduate researchers.
• Student Teaching including provision of tutorials and workshops.

• Development of polymer latex systems for industrial applications.

Phd, Chemistry

Activities and Societies: PhD: Characterisation of Microemulsions in Siloxane Silicone Oils Funded by Unilever Hair, Port Sunlight.

Bsc, Chemistry

Activities and Societies: Alchemy Society (Student Chem Soc) Group Secretary