Future Materials, Minerals & Mining Conference
The conference is intended to be a forum for early career materials, minerals and mining scientists and engineers from across the UK to come together and present their research on the materials they are developing and working with, with the hope of improving presentation and poster skills, along with initiating collaboration between research groups, and between industry and academia.
It is also a way of helping researchers and industry workers see how their work fits into the bigger picture of future materials, minerals and mining research and technology across the UK.
Programme
coming soon
Keynote Speakers
Dr Katerina Christofidou MIMMM
Dr Katerina Christofidou is a Senior Lecutrer/Associate Professor in Metallurgy at the University of Sheffield, whare she also leads the Materials Discovery and Prototyping technology platform for the Henry Royce Institute. She has previously held research and project management roles at the University of Cambridge as part of the Rolls-Royce University Yechnology Centre, the University of Manchester. and the Henry Royce Institute.
She holds a PhD in Metallurgy from the University of Cambridge and an MEng in Aerospace Materials Engineering from Imperial College, London. Her research focusee on bridging high performance alloy design and advanced manufacturing following two key stands; a) accelerated methods of alloy development and high throughput including design for manufacture and b) advanced diffraction methods for non-destructive alloy evaluation applied to high performance engineering components.
Outstanding Contribution Award for EDI
Mr Avery Cunningham AIMMM
Outstanding Contribution Award for EDI
Mr Avery Cunningham AIMMM
Avery currently works as the Outreach Officer for the Levelling Up scheme at the University of Birmingham. This national scheme works to get underrepresented groups into chemistry, physics, mathematics and materials science. Prior to this Avery studied Nuclear Science and Materials at the University of Birmingham.
Avery became involved with IOM3 as a founding member of IOM3 Pride back in 2020 before becoming Vice-Chair of the network in 2021. He currently is the Director of Student Membership for oSTEM (Out in STEM) managing over 100 student chapters globally and founded their UK Regional Conference which will be celebrating its 5th anniversary in 2023. Avery has worked with universities across the UK using his experiences as a transgender, bisexual, autistic disabled man to educate and advocate for real change in STEM for people who are LGBTQ+.
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The Student & Early Career Group represents the views of student, younger and early career members to the Institute's Executive Board and Advisory Council. We aim to represent the diverse range of members by ensuring Council representatives cover the different disciplines, regions and career pathways of student and early career members.