Materials Science

British materials scientist, engineer, broadcaster, and writer. Head of the Materials Research Group at King's College London. Co-founder of Materials Library.

Holder of a Bachelor of Science degree from Brown University and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of California, Berkeley. Transitioned into a career in film and television.

Jonathan is a University Lecturer in Energy, Transport and Urban Infrastructure at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Fitzwilliam College where he chairs the Environment Committee.

Julian Allwood is Professor of Engineering and the Environment at the University of Cambridge. He worked for 10 years for Alcoa, prior to developing an academic career, initially at Imperial College, and from 2000 in Cambridge. In parallel with developing new manufacturing technologies for metals, he has built up a research group looking at environmental systems and production. From 2009-13 he held an EPSRC Leadership Fellowship, to explore ‘material efficiency’ as a climate mitigation strategy – delivering material services with less new material. This led to publication in 2012 of the book “Sustainable Materials: with both eyes open” which can be read online at www.withbotheyesopen.com, listed by Bill Gates as one of his top six reads of 2015. A revised edition "Sustainable Materials: without the hot air" has now been released.

Naval architect and researcher. Studied and designed composite materials, wooden aircraft, plastics, and new materials during World War II. Known for designing rescue dinghies and studying reinforcement fibers made of glass, carbon, boron, and other materials.