Biomedical Applications Group

Paul Hatton

Victoria Kearns

Marcus Caine

Jonathan Knowles

Matteo Santin

Julian Jones

Professor of Biomaterials, Imperial College London

Julian R. Jones is Professor of Biomaterials at Imperial College London. He has >200 articles and 5 patent applications on bioactive glass and hybrid materials. He is co-inventor of “Bouncy Bioglass”, which has been licensed to Orthox Ltd., for commercialisation. He is Fellow of IOM³, the American Ceramics Society and Society for Glass Technology. He is Editor-In-Chief of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Biomedical Science Book Series and sits on the advisory board (non-exec.) for the Bioglass company Noraker (Lyon, France). He is Vice-President of the Society of Glass Technology, he served as Chair of the Bioceramics Division of the American Ceramics Society 2020-2021 and is Chair of the Coordinating Technical Committees of the ICG. He is a member of the EPSRC Healthcare Scientific Advisory Team (SAT) at URKI. Awards include the IOM³ Kroll Medal (for inorganic materials chemistry) in 2022, an ISCM (International Society for Ceramics in Medicine) Excellence Award in 2016; the 2014 Vittorio Gottardi Award from the International Commission on Glass (ICG) and the Robert L. Coble Award (American Ceramics Society) in 2010.

Sarah Cartmell

Rachel Williams

Professor of Ophthalmic Bioengineering, The University of Liverpool

Professor of Ophthalmic Bioengineering at The University of Liverpool with over 30 years of experience in the design and development of advanced materials for medical applications. Her expertise lies particularly in the design and characterisation of the bulk and surface properties of materials and how to modify them to optimise the properties for a specific application. She graduated with a BSc in Engineering Science from the University of Exeter and was awarded a scholarship to study at the University of California for a Masters in Biomedical Engineering at the Davis campus. She returned to the UK and joined the Biomaterials group at the University of Liverpool to study for her PhD. She has developed her academic career at The University of Liverpool specialising in leading research on strategies to develop innovative ways to modify materials and their surfaces to treat sight threatening conditions such as age-related macular degeneration, retinal detachment and surface ocular disorders. She works closely with both clinical and industrial partners to ensure the appropriate translation of her research

Malavika Nair

Cheryll Pitt

Now doing consultancy, a specialist in Materials Science with over 40 years’ experience in the military environment providing successful advice and guidance in the fields of: material selection; materials’ characterisation; failure analysis and environmental damage of aircraft assemblies and components to military customers. 

Lucy Di Silvio

Malavika Nair

Associate Professor in Biomaterials, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford

Malavika Nair is an Associate Professor in Biomaterials at the Institute of Biomedical Engineering, University of Oxford. Malavika is a materials scientist by training, obtaining a BA, MSci in Natural Sciences (2012-2016) and a PhD (2016-2019) from the University of Cambridge. Since 2022, Malavika has been based at the Oxford Institute of Biomedical Engineering to expand the work on electroactive biomaterials for use in bio-stimulation, bio-sensing and drug delivery. Malavika is the membership secretary of the IOM3 BMAG, and the Chair of the Joint Biomedical Engineering Steering Committee since 2024.