The IOM3 Materials Processing & Manufacturing Group provides a technical forum and network to share knowledge and best practice related to the understanding of how materials are manufactured and processed and hence how the material properties can be optimised affecting the subsequent choice and use of all engineering materials (metallic and non-metallic). This group launched in April 2022 and includes the former IOM3 Technical Community groups: Particulate Engineering, Casting & Solidification, Advanced Sheet Metal Forming and Bulk Metal Forming.
Want to get involved? We have vacancies for members of the Leadership Team across all materials and processes, to find out more email [email protected]
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Beth Bevan MIMMM
Beth (MIMMM) is currently Commodity Manager for Forgings for the materials and manufacturing engineering team at Siemens Energy in Warwick, working on the SGT-A20 (Industrial Avon) aeroderivative gas turbine and all aspects of core engine component manufacturing.
Beth is a materials specialist with nearly 30 years industrial experience, having spent 15 years in various Aerospace forging companies before joining Siemens Lincoln in 2010 as a Principal Metallurgist, and then manufacturing project manager. She joined Siemens Energy in Warwick in 2022.
Beth completed a part time MSc in Materials for Energy systems at Cranfield University and joined their Industrial Advisory Board for their aerospace materials/manufacturing technology MSc’s in 2023.
Beth is an enthusiastic supporter for women in engineering/manufacturing, a STEM ambassador and a member of the Inclusion and Diversity committee for the Siemens Energy Culture Hub.
Chris Botting FIMMM
Chris is a Chartered Materials Engineer and Fellow of the Institute of Materials with over 20 years of experience in the automotive and aerospace sectors. Starting his career at Lotus Cars, he's held diverse roles including process, design, and structural adhesives engineering. Since joining Marshall Aerospace in 2015, he's specialized in all fields of materials engineering including joining technologies, surface coatings, corrosion protection, composites, and both metallic and non-metallic materials, ensuring environmental legislative compliance (REACh).
Chris is currently developing skills in the field of hydrogen for civil aviation including the effects of hydrogen on materials and materials for cryogenic applications. Chris is lead researcher on the HyFIVE project developing a cryogenic hydrogen fuel system for aircraft
Chris spearheaded the introduction and CAA approval of polymer Additive Manufacturing for flying parts in 2018 and currently leads R&D in metallic Additive Manufacturing for CAA approval. He collaborates with Cambridge and Cranfield Universities on R&D projects, integrating new technologies into Marshall's processes. Chris serves on Cranfield University's Advanced Materials Industrial Advisory Board and lectures at Nottingham Trent, Cranfield, and Hertfordshire Universities.
Dr Masoumeh Faraji
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Masoumeh, with a PhD in Engineering Materials from the University of Sheffield awarded in 2007, has extensive research experience in metal manufacturing processes, including casting, thermomechanical processing, and welding technologies. She is currently an assistant professor in sustainable manufacturing and materials in Coventry University, working on optimisation of metal processing through process modelling and utilising advanced characterisation techniques. She is focused on developing sustainable thermomechanical processes to manufacture and extend service life of advanced structural steel components for energy applications.
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Dr Sanjoo Paddea
Dr Sanjoo Paddea
Sanjoo is a Materials Engineer turned business manager with over a decade of experience leading large-scale, interdisciplinary research initiatives and fostering impactful collaborations between academia and industry. As Business and Hub Manager at Cranfield University, he led the £10M TransFIRe programme, successfully attracting 130 industry partners and securing over £5M in co-investments to drive sustainability and innovation in the UK’s foundation industries.
Dr Sarah Harrold CEng FIMMM FCMI
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Sarah is Strategic Partnership Lead at Glass Futures, and where she develops networks, partnerships and strategies for collaborative programmes. She is also the strategic lead for Foundation Industries Ventures, supporting spin-outs and start-ups to reach market within the Foundation Industries. With a background in materials science and engineering, Sarah previously led the technical delivery of the Transforming Foundation Industries Challenge at Innovate UK, a £250m programme of public and private funding supporting the sustainable transformation of the Foundation Industries. She studied her for her MEng in Materials Science at Mansfield College, Oxford and DPhil at Wolfson College, Oxford. Her research focused on novel alloy development for the Nuclear Industry working closely with Rolls Royce and the National Nuclear Laboratory. Sarah has been in the Materials Processing Industry for the past 10 years, initially conducting research at both the University of Oxford and WMG, University of Warwick, before joining Innovate UK. She is a champion for sustainability, increasing the accessibility and inclusivity of the manufacturing industries. In her spare time, she is a keen runner, cyclist and baker. |
Dr. Siddharth Lokachari
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Dr. Siddharth Lokachari is a Rolls-Royce Research fellow within the Faculty of Engineering's Coatings and Surface Engineering group at the University of Nottingham's Rolls-Royce Manufacturing and On-Wing University Technology Centre. He focuses on advancing miniaturization strategies for the thermal spray process and developing next generation thermal barrier coatings for aero-engines as part of the Rolls-Royce REINSTATE project, a £10.5 million initiative funded by ATI and Innovate UK. Siddharth is also an active member of the British Standards Institute (BSI) standards committee STI/040. Prior to joining UoN, he contributed to aerospace suspension feedstock production at Treibacher Industry in Austria. He holds a PhD from the University of Munich, Germany, and a Master's degree in mechanical engineering from Nagaoka University, Japan. |
Harry Chapman
Harry is a PhD researcher in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University College London researching Additive Manufacturing (AM), specialising in the Directed Energy Deposition (DED) process and utilising in situ high speed synchrotron radiography. Previously, he completed his MEng in Materials Science at the University of Oxford, with a Master’s project focused on liquid lithium corrosion for nuclear fusion applications. Harry has been a member of IOM3 since 2018, and has won the IOM3 Image competition, and an IOM3 grant to support knowledge exchange. He is the Student and Early Career Committee (SECC) representative on the leadership team.
Professor Mark Jolly FIMMM, FICME, CEng, CEnv
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Mark is Professor of Sustainable Materials and Manufacturing at the University of Greenwich in the Computational Science and Engineering Group in the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences in the Faculty of Engineering and Science. Prior to this he had been Director of Manufacturing and Materials at Cranfield University. He has over 40 years’ experience in materials and manufacturing. He spent 13 years working in industry at tier 1&2 suppliers both in the UK and abroad before moving into academia in 1995. In 2012 he joined Cranfield University after 17 years at the University of Birmingham. He has managed over £22 M of research projects since 1999 and has over 350 publications, technical reports, articles and books. Until Dec 2024 he was Director of the UKRI Transforming the Foundation Industries Research and Innovation Hub (TransFIRe) – a £10 million project looking at the carbon impact of all the materials in a modern society covering Metals, Cement, Ceramics, Glass, Polymers and Paper – most of which is used in the Construction Industry. Mark is on the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) National Engineering Policy Centre (NEPC) working group on Materials for Net-Zero which is currently looking at the future materials demands for infrastructure. Mark is on the Royal Academy of Engineering National Engineering Policy Centre (NEPC) working group on Materials for Net-Zero and sits on the Advisory Board for the Advanced School on Circular Metal Components for the Swedish Manufacturing Industry (CIRCUMET). Most recently Prof Jolly gave two keynote papers at the International CivilTech2025 Conference in Taipei, Taiwan, 20-21st November 2025. Until last December 24 Mark was also co-Director of the Circular Economy Network plus in Transport Systems (CENTS). Mark has sat on the EPSRC Peer Review College since 2003 and sits on the council of the Cast Metals Federation, is a reviewer for the European Space Agency (ESA) and Enterprise Ireland. He is a Chartered Engineer and Chartered Environmentalist and sits on the Society for the Environment Honorary Fellows Panel. His main areas of current research are in circular economy and sustainability including resource efficient manufacturing and process modelling. He has worked with many well-known names across a number of sectors including St Gobain, Tata Steel, Constellium, Luxfer, Lucideon, NGV Pilkington, Trent Refractories all involved in the construction and Infrastructure sectors, as well as Rolls-Royce, Depuy-Synthes (Johnson & Johnson), Bentley, Aston Martin, BAES, Finmeccanica, GKN, EnCirc360, Kimberly-Clark Corporation, Hanson Cement, Siemens, TPC AB (GKN Aerospace, Sweden), Vesuvius, , Coca-Cola and many less well-known companies. He has also championed working with many small companies especially SMEs who are in the supply chain larger companies and OEMs. With his co-authors he is the recipient of the 2024 TMS Light Metals Warren Peterson Subject Award for Cast Shop for Aluminum Production with a paper entitled “Defect Minimisation in Vacuum-Assisted Plaster Mould Investment Casting Through Simulation of High-Value Aluminium Alloy Components”. Mark was the recipient of the 2019 John Campbell Gold Medal awarded by ICME for “continual advancement in sustainable manufacturing and promotion of excellence in casting technologies”. He was the 2010 Winner of the University of Birmingham Josiah Mason Founder’s Award for Business Advancement and in 2008 was the recipient of the Oliver Stubbs Medal (ICME). Mark is a Chartered Engineer (CEng) and Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv) and sits on the Society for the Environment Honorary Fellows Panel. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM). He is a Fellow of the Institute of Cast Metals Engineers (FICME). He is and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Founders and Freeman of the City of London. |
Simon Hogg FIMMM
Simon is a Fellow of the IOM3 and a Reader in Metallurgy in the Materials Department at Loughborough University. He obtained his PhD from The University of Sheffield, Department of Engineering Materials. He held a postdoctoral appointment at Oxford University working on Al-Li alloys for airframe applications. His research is centred on the use of advanced processing and characterisation techniques to understand microstructural development and properties in complex, novel alloys. Presently, the focus of research includes sustainable metallurgy, use of x-ray imaging to understand solidification, and microstructure and texture development in industrially processed light alloys. As well as holding a Strategic Advisor position, he is a member of the leadership team for the IOM3 Nonferrous and Light Metals Group and Past President and current Treasurer for the East Midlands Materials Society.
