Dr Ben Britton is a Senior Lecturer and RAEng Research Fellow in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London.

His research focusses on understanding materials in high-value high-risk environments, for instance in aerospace, nuclear power and oil & gas applications. His research interests include experimental techniques such as electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD), digital image correlation (DIC), micro-mechanical test (e.g. nanoindentation, micropillar compression), as well as simulation with crystal plasticity and dislocation dynamics. This work focusses on the behaviour of hexagonal and cubic metals (e.g. Zr, Ti, Cu, Ni, Fe).

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Professor Fionn Dunne is Chair in Micromechanics and current research is in the micromechanics and fundamentals of deformation and failure particularly relating to hexagonal polycrystal materials and includes computational crystal plasticity, micro-deformation, fatigue crack nucleation, texture and dislocation structure development and polycrystal sonics for NDE. He leads the epsrc programme grant Heterogeneous Mechanics in Hexagonal Alloys across Length and Time Scales, directs the Imperial Rolls-Royce Nuclear University Technology Centre, and Co-Directs the AVIC-BIAM Centre for Materials.

He is Associate Editor of Philosophical Magazine and co-author of Introduction to Computational Plasticity, OUP, 2005. He is a consultant to Rolls-Royce, a member of their Core Materials Working Group and was a Royal Society Industry Fellow in 05/06 spent with Rolls-Royce. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2010

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Professor David Dye is a Professor of Metallurgy in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London.

His research Interests focus on the micromechanics of jet engine, aircraft and reactor materials, particularly superalloys, titanium and zirconium.  His research group works on problems across the life-cycle from alloy design to processing to fatigue and failure.

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Dr Christopher Gourlay is a Senior Lecturer in Solidification Processing.

His research focuses on the fundamentals of alloy solidification and their application in Pb-free soldering and casting with interests including: Mushy-zone mechanics; X-ray imaging of solidification phenomena; Nucleation; Eutectics; Intermetallic crystal growth; Pb-free soldering; and High-pressure die casting

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Dr Minh-Son Pham is Departmental Research Fellow in the Department of Materialsl at Imperial College London.

His research focuses on additive manufacturing and metal forming, and the in-service performance of lightweight metals and alloys in automobile, aerospace and power plants.

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Dr Vassili Vorontsov's research focusses on the study of crystallographic defects, deformation and phase transformations in structural materials.

Currently, the primary research area is the development of novel cobalt-based superalloys for gas turbine applications. However, he also has active research interests in aerospace titanium alloys, ultra-ductile energy absorbing steels and zirconium alloys for nuclear reactors.

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Dr Mark Wenman is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Materials at Imperial College London.

His key research interests are in the field of nuclear engineering materials (specialising in metallurgy) and include micromechanisms of fracture, hydrogen embrittlement, irradiation damage, stress and strain measurement and finite element modelling from continuum to microscales. Materials include zirconium alloys, stainless steels and ferritic steels.

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