Awards
- Rector’s Medal for Outstanding Innovation in Teaching, Imperial College London, 2012
- Royal Society Wolfson Merit Award, The Royal Society, 2006
External Positions
- Member, Royal Society Public Engagement Committee, Royal Society, 2013 - 2014
- Member, Royal Society Education Committee, Royal Society, 2012 - 2014
- Member, Scientific Advisory Board at the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research GmbH, Max Planck Society, 2012 - 2017
- Member, Royal Society Panel A for International Newton Fellowship Scheme, Royal Society, 2011 - 2014
- Chairman, Advisory Panel for the Royal Society Armourers and Brasiers Award, Royal Society, 2010 - 2015
- Member, Scientific Advisor Committee for Extreme Environment-Tolerant Materials Via Atomic Scale Design of Interfaces, Energy Frontier Research Center, Los Alamos National Laboratory, 2009 - 2014
- Member, Sectional Committee 4, Royal Society, 2009 - 2012
Membership of Professional Bodies
- Fellow of the Royal Society, The Royal Society, 2003
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2003
- Chartered Engineer, The Engineering Council, 2002
- Fellow of the Institute of Materials, The Institute of Materials, 2000
- Fellow of the Institute of Physics, The Institute of Physics, 2000
- Member MRS, Materials Research Society, 1991
Links with Other Academic Bodies
- The Thomas Young Centre, The London Centre for Theory and Simulation of Materials, Imperial College London, UCL, KCL, QMUL, NPL, 2005
Industrial Connections
- BP, Polymer mebranes for purification of sea water
- Baker Hughes GE, Elastomers; flow in nanoscale pore networks
- Element Six Ltd, Multiscale investigation of failure in bonded diamond aggregates
- Rolls-Royce, Why is Ti6242 susceptible to cold dwell fatigue, but Ti6246 is not?
Fellowships
- FRS, The Royal Society, 2003
- FRSC, The Royal Society of Chemistry, 2003
- FIMMM, Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, 2000
- FInstP, Institute of Physics, 2000
Editorial Boards
- Oxford Series on Materials Modelling, Founding Editor, 2000
- OUP Monographs on the Physics and Chemistry of Materials, Editor, 1999