Annual Report

Prof Bill Lee, FREng, FIMMM,
FACerS, FCGI, CSci,
Chair in Ceramic Engineering
Department of Materials
Director of the CNE
William Penney Fellow
Bill is Director of the Centre for
Nuclear Engineering at Imperial College London,
a William Penney Fellow, a member of the
Government advisory committee The Nuclear
Innovation and Research Advisory Board (NIR-
AB). He is also a member of the Leverhulme
Trust Panel of Advisors, the Royal Academy of
Engineering International Activities Committee,
the Scientific and Environmental Advisory
Board Tokamak Energy Ltd and The Technical
Advisory Board of the National Nuclear Laboratory.
Bill was Deputy Chair of the Government
Advisory Committee on Radioactive Waste Management
(CoRWM) from 2007-2013, has acted
as special advisor nuclear to the House of Lords
Science and Technology Committee (2013) and
is an IAEA Technical Expert.
Bill’s research interests include ultra-high
temperature ceramics and nuclear fuels and
wasteforms. Bill has published over 350 peerreviewed
papers and has also been awarded
research grants totalling over £50M, including
£5.5M from EPSRC to set up the Centre for
Advanced Structural Ceramics (CASC) and over
£2M as co-investigator with Mike Finnis on the
programme grant Materials in Extreme Environments
(XMat) with Jon Binner at Loughborough.
He is also external examiner for the Nuclear
Engineering MSc at Khalifa University in Abu
Dhabi.
Prof Mike Lowe, FREng,
FIMechE, FInstP, FInstNDT
Professor in Mechanical
Engineering
Deputy Head of the Department of
Mechanical Engineering
Mike’s research is in Non Destructive
Testing (NDT), with particular interests
in structure-guided ultrasound, wave theory,
and analytical and numerical modelling. His
teaching interests are in mechanics, mathematics,
vibration, and Finite Element modelling. He
is a member of the board of the RCNDE.
Mike is also a director of Guided Ultrasonics
Ltd (www.guided-ultrasonics.com), a spin-out
company which was set up to commercialise
the outputs of research in ultrasonic guided
waves.
Dr Christos Markides
Senior Lecturer in Clean Energy
Processes
Department of Chemical Engineering
Christos’s research interests include
technologies, processes
and methods for the recovery,
utilization, conversion and storage of thermal
energy for cooling, heating and power, novel
‘total energy’ integration schemes in high-efficiency
systems with emphasis on low-grade
waste heat, and solar-thermal energy utilization.
In the context of nuclear energy, he studies
thermohydraulics and thermodynamics
power systems.
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