Stephen Richards Email & Phone Number

Orchard Road, Royston, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Process Development and process implementation engagement including: (i) NPI project management through project stage gates, (ii) participation in Haz Study activities (HS0/1, HS2 HAZIDs, HS3 HAZOPs, HS7 PHRs) related to new and existing local UK and global process plant installations, (iii) design and completion of hands-on practical laboratory scale separation and purification trials in order to evaluate potential new technologies, (iv) investigations into the feasibility of processing potential new customer feedstocks and internal production process waste streams, (v) line management of a Development Chemist direct report, (vi) responsibility for maintaining and improving housekeeping standards and adherence to local and site EHS policies and procedures in two busy Development Laboratories.

Orchard Road, Royston, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Laboratory-scale operation demonstration of a new solid-phase extraction (SPE) platinum group metal (PGM) separation/purification/recovery process on an automated software-controlled test bed in order to establish process reliability, determine the viability of implementation on plant, and to inform sizing of required process plant.

Highfield Campus, Southampton, United Kingdom

Metal chalcogenide CVD precursor synthesis, thin film deposition and materials characterisation activities including: (i) chalcogenide ligand syntheses, (ii) coordination chemistry applied to CVD precursor preparation, (iii) thin film depositions onto coated wafer substrates via LP-CVD, (iv) grazing incidence XRD and phase matching of crystalline films, (v) morphological analysis of thin film samples by SEM imaging and compositional determination via EDX spectroscopic studies.Presentation of results and findings through delivery of contributed talks to specialist interest group/general scientific audiences at national and international meetings and conferences including: (i) UK Thermoelectric Network meeting (Edinburgh, 14th February 2018), (ii) Dalton 2018 (University of Warwick, 5th April 2018), (iii) 37th International Conference on Thermoelectrics in conjunction with 16th European Conference on Thermoelectrics (Caen, 5th July 2018).

Truro And Falmouth, United Kingdom

Assisting with local Polling Station operation through activities such as: (i) greeting and engaging with electors, (ii) ensuring eligibility to vote by checking entitlement against the Electoral Register, (iii) issuing of ballot papers, (iv) undertaking other duties under the instruction/direction of the Presiding Officer to ensure smooth running of the Polling Station and adherence to the requirements for appropriate conduct of all administrative activities prior to opening and following closure of the Polling Station.

Orchard Road, Royston, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

Process Development work including: (i) laboratory scale batch processing/conditioning/separation trials and synthetic chemistry experimentation, (ii) plant process operational performance evaluation/optimisation and troubleshooting activities within the laboratory environment, (iii) development of continuous (reaction/conditioning) processes on the laboratory scale for implementation on plant, (iv) sharing of information/findings/data with internal customers in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint formats.

Power Road, Bromborough, United Kingdom

Involvement in the following activities: (i) the support of production teams and process development functions, (ii) troubleshooting, (iii) the evaluation of new precursor delivery configurations/solutions, (iv) the implementation of an instrument/equipment validation schedule, (v) small scale customer order fulfillment, (vi) the preparation of samples for external analysis, (vii) liaison with internal and external suppliers/customers, (viii) materials recovery and waste disposal.

Power Road, Bromborough, United Kingdom

Engagement in the following activities: (i) the research and development of potential new products, (ii) the evaluation of potential new routes to developmental products to achieve cost reductions/facilitate scale-up/improve safety, (iii) the scale-up of a method protocol developed at a partner institution as part of a collaborative European 7th Framework Programme project, (iv) the preparation of samples for external analysis, (v) the custom-synthesis of products in line with specified requirements, (vi) liaison with internal and external suppliers/customers.

Claverton Down, Bath, United Kingdom

Development of low-cost precursors for the deposition of surface-modifying metal oxide thin films at the transparent conducting electrode (anode) of experimental organic photovoltaic devices; necessitating the synthesis and characterisation of candidate organometallic compounds/coordination complexes, deposition of thin films via atmospheric pressure MOCVD techniques, preparation of samples for surface analysis, SEM imaging of modified substrates and their provision for test cell device fabrication.