Awards
- Lee Hsun Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2014
- Kingery Award, American Ceramic Society, 2012
- Mellor Memorial Lecturer, IOMMM Ceramic Society, 2012
- Best Paper Prize of science category in Nuclear and Environmental Technology Division meeting, American Ceramic Society, 2004
- Wakabayashi Prize for best published paper, Technical Association of Refractories, Japan, 2004
- Pfeil Award, IoMMM, 2000
- Rosenhain Medal, IoMMM, 1999
External Positions
- Member, National Nuclear Laboratory Technical Advisory Board, 2015
- Member of the Government advisory committee The Nuclear Innovation and Research Advisoty Board (NIRAB), The Nuclear Innovation and Research Advisoty Board (NIRAB), The Nuclear Innovation and Research Advisoty Board (NIRAB), 2014
- Member of the Royal Academy of Engineering International Activities Committee, Royal Academy of Engineering International Activities Committee, Royal Academy of Engineering International Activities Committee, 2013
- Member, Leverhulme Trust Advisory Panel, 2009
- Deputy Chair, Committee on Radioactive Waste Management, DEFRA (now DECC), 2007 - 2010
Links with Other Academic Bodies
- External Examiner, Khalifa University, 2015
Industrial Connections
- Expert witness on several occasions, Refractories failures.
- Kerneos (France), Calcium Aluminate Cements
- Morgan Advanced Materials, Member of the Technical Advisory Board
- Rolls-Royce plc - Environmental Barrier Coatings
- SCG (Thailand) High Emissity Coatings
- Sellafield Sites plc, Glass Composite Ceramic Wasteforms
- Tokamak Energy Ltd, Member Technical Advisory Board
Fellowships
- Fellow, American Ceramic Society
- Fellow, City and Guilds Institute of London
- Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, Royal Academy of Engineering
- Fellow, IOM3
Editorial Boards
- Advances in Applied Ceramics (UK)
- Journal of The American Ceramic Society