A very warm welcome to you wherever you’ll be joining us for our inaugural Awardee Excellence Community event - in Belfast, Sheffield, Glasgow, London, or online.
This is the first time the Academy has hosted an event of this nature - held simultaneously in different locations as well as online. And it is fitting that we are doing so to launch our Awardee Excellence Community, created to bring together all the exceptional and talented individuals from across the UK and internationally who are current and former awardees and alumni of our different programmes, prizes and medals.
Our aim is for this to become a powerful, vibrant, connected and diverse community of engineering leaders. I hope the day's events give you a flavour of what is possible through connecting and working with others within the community.
From everyone at the Academy, we look forward to welcoming you on the day.
Keynote speaker
Billy Boyle MBE FREng
Billy Boyle MBE FREng has a vision to change the way we currently diagnose and monitor serious disease. He is the co-founder and CEO of Owlstone Inc., whose mission is to become the global leader in the non-invasive detection of cancer, infectious diseases and inflammatory diseases – in the process saving 100,000 lives and $1.5 billion in healthcare costs. Billy received the Royal Academy of Engineering Silver Medal and was a winner of the 2018 MacRobert Award; he was then made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2020 and an MBE in 2021. Billy sits on the CRUK Early Detection and Diagnosis Research Committee and was previously a judge for the Cancer Research UK (CRUK) Pioneer award and a trustee of the Linacre Institute. He likes to combine a love of running with raising money for charities such as CRUK.
Attendees
Find out about some of the other attendees you can meet at the event or pre-connect through their profile below.
Attendees A- F
Dr Tom Allen
Senior Lecturer, Manchester Metropolitan University
Ingenious Public Engagement Award, 2022
As a Sports Engineer, I am interested in the effect of engineering and technology on sport, in terms of performance, participation and injury risk. I enjoying collaborating with researchers and working with sports brands and organisations. I am Editor-in-Chief of Sports Engineering, the official journal of the International Sports Engineering Association (ISEA).
Attendees G-M
Professor Dan Gladwin
Professor of Electrical & Control System Engineering, University of Sheffield
Engineering Leadership Advanced Award, 2001
Dan has particular expertise in energy storage and management, energy systems, power electronics, and intelligent systems. He is a founding member of the Centre for Research into Electrical Energy Storage and Applications (CREESA) at the University of Sheffield. His team are international leading researchers on grid scale energy storage and he has successfully led notable projects such as the £3.8M 1MWh / 2MW lithium titanate facility at Willenhall and the €3M AdDHyStor H2020 (760443) project to install Europe’s largest hybrid flywheel battery energy storage system.
Dan is currently leading a £1.5M EPSRC multi-institutional project investigating how different distributed energy storage assets, of different sizes and technologies, can be integrated into the grid.
He is also co-investigator on a recently started £6.6M EPSRC programme grant developing technologies to support off-grid electric vehicle charging. He has published in the areas of battery modelling and state estimation, optimisation, energy storage and power systems.
Luke Hatton
Research Associate, Imperial College London
Engineering Leaders Scholarship, 2020
Luke is a Research Associate at the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London, working on the economics of green hydrogen production.
After graduating from the University of Oxford in 2022 with a Masters in Engineering Science (Chemical Engineering), he worked for six months in the CCUS and Industrial Decarbonisation Team at Element Energy, a specialist low-carbon energy consultancy.
His research interests are focused on the interplay between policy, economics and technological innovation relating to the clean energy transition, and he will be starting a PhD in Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London later this year.
Hagorly Hutasuhut
Director, Insitek
LIF Advance, 2021
Currently, I am taking my technology expertise with support from the UK product research & applications catapult and building a commercial entity in the UK Space/ Telco industry.
Professor Roger Lewis
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Sheffield
Research Chair, 2019
Roger Lewis is currently Professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Sheffield. He is also currently a RAEng/Rail Safety and Standards Board Research Chair in Wheel/Rail Interface Low Adhesion Management.
He has been at the University since starting his undergraduate degree in 1992. He has had over 20 years experience of working on a wide range of tribological issues, but now mainly focusses on wheel/rail interface and human tribology research.
Pete Lomas FREng
Director of Engineering, Norcott Technologies Limited
MacRobert, 2017
Pete has spent the last 35 years helping bring product ideas to life. He has worked with a wide range of start-ups and blue-chip companies in industries as diverse as video security, fire detection, data communications, engine test, building management, medical robotics and instrumentation for large scientific experiments.
His passion is encouraging the next generations to engage in STEM subjects and is the co-creator of hugely successful Raspberry Pi computer. He also established the associated charitable foundation and served as a trustee for over 10 years. Its mission to put creativity, experimentation & fun back into engagement in computer science / electronic engineering through digital making. At the RAEng Pete serves on the Ingenious Awards committee.
Morgan Killick
Managing Director, Level Up Solutions Ltd
Regional Talent Engines, 2022
Experienced founder and technologist, now working on an exciting new AI startup in the field of Natural Language Processing.
Dr Jirapan Liangrokapart
Lecture and Ph.D. Program Director, Mahidol University
Industry Academia Partnership Programme, 2019
I have a diverse background. My first degree is the Bachelor of Pharmacy, my Master's degree is MBA, and my Ph.D. degree is in Industrial Engineering. I am interested in working interdisciplinary research which I can apply my knowledge and experience. My current areas of interest include Logistics and Operations management, Risk management, Performance measurement in healthcare, metro/railway transportation, air transportation, and other industries.
Kunita Liangrokapart
Student, Mahidol University
I am a first year medical student at Siriraj Hospital, Thailand. The event interests me as it shows the application of advanced engineering technology in medical field.
Attendees N-S
Dr Giuliano Punzo
Lecturer, The University of Sheffield
Engineering X - Safer Complex Systems, 2021
Giuliano is a Lecturer in the Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering at the University of Sheffield. After a brief spell in the space industry, Giuliano turned his attention to distributed control, which led him to complex engineering systems research. Giuliano's focus are socio-technical systems, where human intervention affects and is affected by the physical and technological environment.
Attendees T-Z
Matthew Walker
Reactor Systems Design Engineer, Rolls-Royce SMR
Engineering Leaders Scholarship, 2017
I am a Chemical Engineer working in civil nuclear safety system design at Rolls-Royce SMR. I previously spent three years working on decommissioning and environmental remediation projects at Sellafield Ltd, who operate the UK’s largest nuclear site. I graduated from Loughborough University in 2019, and whilst there I was awarded an RAEng Engineering Leaders Scholarship.
Professor Phil Webb
Head of Centre and RAEn Chair in Industrial Robotics and Assembly, Cranfield University
Research Chair, 2009
I have significant experience in research and teaching in advanced robotics and have published widely on the subject. I have served as an elected member of the Council of the British Automation and Robot Association for many years and as the UK representative to the International Federation for Robotics. I currently lead a successful research group at Cranfield with a particular focus on human robot interaction and have experience of working with most of the major aerospace companies on assembly and automation. I have a broad portfolio of research funded by EPSRC, ATI and industry.