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Prof James Busfield FREng FIMMM FHEA
Dr Mokarram Hossain
Chris Holland
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Chris joined the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at the University of Sheffield in 2013 as head of the Natural Materials Group, holding an EPSRC Early Career Fellowship. After this he then went onto co-ordinating FLIPT, a large European consortia as part of a H2020 FET Open project and has been promoted to a Senior Lecturer.
Outside of the lab he is an associate editor for ACS Biomaterials Science and Engineering and also the Chair of the Natural Materials Association.
Previously he was at Oxford where he undertook his BA in Biological Sciences, MSc in Integrative Biosciences, D. Phil and later a Fellowship By Examination (a.k.a JRF) whilst working in the Oxford Silk Group.
Areas of interest: "Biomimetics, silk processing and protein materials".
Jude started as a packaging technologist at the drinks division of Mars before taking the experience of life as a client over to the world of a packaging design agency.
For almost 20 years Jude championed and led the production and creative operations at jonesknowlesrtichie as it grew from a London based packaging design agency to a global design business with offices in London, New York, Singapore and Shanghai.
Jude and her team were responsible for delivering creative packaging designs into market for a wide range of much-loved brands from global favourites to local heroes as well as launching new start-up brands.
Working closely with brands such as Budweiser, Mars, Molton Brown, McVitie’s, Dulux paints and Hippeas, she has a rich and varied experience of the packaging industry, the challenges of innovation and the needs of brand owners to respond to their consumers demands.
In 2018 she took on the role of chief operating officer at a start-up engineering agency in London with a manufacturing and project management office in Shenzhen, China. She spent a frenetic eighteen months at RPD International professionalising the business and developing the skills of a young group of entrepreneurs and engineers.
Jude now chairs the IOM3 Packaging Group.
She has a BEng in Materials Science and the IOM3 Diploma of Packaging Technology
Sally holds a degree in Chemistry and a Ph.D in Polymer Science. Her early research work resulted in a number of scientific papers on polymer modification and pyrolysis, and a book on rubber blends. She has led on EU funded elastomer projects and worked for a Malaysian RTO developing tyre and antivibration compounds. Business-wise she holds a number of patents in medical device developments and hundreds of millions of metered dose inhaler units are still being used annually with the elastomer formulation she developed as a response to using less polluting greenhouse gasses as aerosols. She has been in tech transfer for over 15 years and has built numerous collaborations and supported companies accessing funding for innovative projects with expert knowledge of polymers. She has been an Innovation Lead at Innovate UK and monitored a portfolio of over 60 projects and co-wrote scope for plastics related competitions. Since the Blue Planet II episode featuring plastics aired she has been determined to see less plastic waste entering the environment whilst realising the positive benefits of polymers to mitigating climate change and supporting sustainability. She founded and currently heads up the UK Circular Plastics Network and leads on the Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging activity at KTN.
