Elastomers in Transport

Prof James Busfield FREng FIMMM FHEA

Head of the Soft Matter Group, Queen Mary University of London

James has been the Head of the Soft Matter Group at QMUL since 1994. He was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2020 and a National Teaching Fellow in 2009. He has also been recognised for his research by the award of the George Stafford Whitby Award (awarded to outstanding international teachers of polymer science and recognising innovative research by the ACS ) in 2021, the Colwyn Medal (the premier medal for rubber research awarded by the IOM3) in 2009 and the Sparks-Thomas Award (recognising outstanding contributions and innovations in the field of elastomers by the ACS) in 2010. Before 1994, James designed suspension components for an automotive industry supply company, designing systems for companies such as Jaguar, Volvo and Mercedes

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Merryn Hobbs

Research and Development Technologist, Trelleborg Antivibration Solutions

Merryn graduated with an MChem from Nottingham Trent University and has since been working in the research and development of materials for Trelleborg AVS. She recently completed a Masters by Research in fire studies from University of Central Lancashire, exploring the fire properties of compounds for specific applications. She has detailed knowledge and experience in areas including chemical analysis of rubber materials and the formulation of rubber compounds for particular purposes. She has been a member of the IOM3 Elastomer Group (formerly RIEG) committee since 2019.

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Prof Mokarram Hossain

Swansea University

Dr Hossain’s research interests lie in the wide and interdisciplinary areas of soft polymeric and active multifunctional materials (electro-active polymers, magneto-active polymers, light-activated polymers, active hydrogels etc), ranging from material synthesis, experimental study (e.g. multi-axial and multi-field fatigue fracture study of soft polymers) to computational modelling. He is active in field of clean energy harvesting using soft polymers. He received significant amount of research grants both from UKRI and industries in the field of soft polymers.

Dr Peter Eaton

Senior Instrument Scientist for Microscopy, University of Lincoln

Peter Eaton has a degree in Chemistry, a Master's in Polymer Technology and a Phd in Materials Science. He also has a Diploma from the Royal Microscopical Society in Microscopy.

Department Responsibilities

Responsible for training and maintenance of Transmission Electron MIcroscopy (TEM), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), and Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) instruments. Responsible for delivery of TEM, AFM and SEM as a service. Also supervising and maintaining instruments in the School of Natural Sciences. Also responsible for management and delivery of commercial projects under The Bridge.

Subject Specialisms

Peter has been working with atomic force microscopy for over twenty years, and transmission electron microscopy and scanning electron microscopy for more than 10 years. Peter is also highly experienced in the field of vibrational spectroscopy. Peter has been the PI in projects in Microscopy, Nanotechnology and Natural Products.