Listed below are the current board members. Click on a highlighted name to send an email to that person.

If you have any comments you may email a board member directly. Also feel free to meet board members at any of the conferences or meetings and discuss the activities of the Society.

Stuart Patrick
Chair, The Polymer Society
Chair, PVC Committee 
Tel: 0161 427 4282

Dr Matthew Thornton
Society Co-ordinator
Download CV (PDF 597k)
The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining
Grantham Centre, The Boilerhouse, Springfield Business Park  
Caunt Road, Grantham, NG31 7FZ, UK
T. +44(0)1476 513 880
F. +44(0)1476 513 899

Board members:

Martyn Bennett
ARTIS
Expertise:

• 20+ years in R & D in the rubber industry from Teaching Company Associate with Bristol University through to establishing Avon Rubbers Materials Development Centre in 1998. 
• Having launched ARTIS in 2007 he brings specialist technical knowledge of physics, metallurgy, polymer science, food processing, rheology, test development, statistical analysis and data management. 
• His current key focus is now management and promotion of ARTIS with a view to growing a successful consultancy and research company, and has a keen interest in the recycling of rubber and other materials. 
• Currently also Chairman of the Industrial Advisory Group at Loughborough University Department of Materials, also has stong links to the RIEG, Queen Mary University of London and NPL.

Dr James Busfield
Queen Mary, University of London
Rubber in Engineering Group (RIEG)
Expertise:

• The physics of rubber materials
• Particulate filled polymer systems
• Smart elastomers

Prof. Phil Coates
Bradford University
Polymer Processing & Engineering Committee (Chair)
Expertise:

• Process structuring of polymers and polymer composites/ nanocomposites to achieve enhanced properties or consistent quality through understanding and control of the processing operation.
• Analysis/modelling of polymer processing mechanics, involving leading edge in-process measurements - experimental characterisations of the solid and fluid phase rheology of polymers, with novel rheo-optical, ultrasound techniques and in-process spectroscopy.
• Processing machinery design and control of processing, especially in the fields of injection moulding (including micromoulding), extrusion and reactive processing - encompassing determination of process dynamic responses to the deconvolution of machine and raw material variables for real time closed loop process control.
• Computer modelling of solid and melt phase processing - used in process design and control (with a patented licensed polymer orientation process), and for insight into deformation and flow mechanisms.
• Management of large scale research groups and teams, and events.  

Jan Czerski
Consultant & Materials KTN

Peter Davis 
The British Plastics Federation

John Dorken
British Rubber and Polyurethane Products Association

Dr Mark Hodgson
DuPont Teijin Films

Geoff Hollington
Hollington Design

Marion Ingle
London Metropolitan University 
Expertise:

• Risk assessment and design for product safety
• Polymer failure analysis and material identification and characterisation
• Polymers in construction applications

Tony Pringle
tpplast Ltd & The Society of Plastics Engineers
Expertise:

• Automation and blowmoulding
• Occupational standards in manufacturing
• Energy saving

Dr Martin Rides
National Physical Laboratory (NPL)
Expertise:

• Rheological characterisation of polymeric materials: extrusion, rotational, oscillatory and extensional techniques with thermoplastics, thermosetting plastics and polymer solutions 
• Thermal analysis and heat transfer properties of polymeric materials 
• Chairman of ISO Standards committee (ISO/TC61/SC5/WG9) on rheological measurements of plastics

Dr Andrew Tinker
Past Chairman & Chairman of the Materials KTN Polymer Sector
Expertise:

• Blends of rubber
• TPU's
• Characterisation of rubber materials

Dr Alan Wood

Victrex 

Spike Taylor

Multotec Pty Ltd

Corresponding Member, IOM3 Polymer Division- South Africa