Manufacturing & transport materials, such as steel and cement, currently contribute over 15% of global CO2 emissions, and it is vital to reduce the energy consumption to manufacture the products and improve energy efficiency in order to reach net zero.
Research in Cambridge covers applications in transport, aviation, road transport, intelligent infrastructure materials, concrete, materials for extreme environments, vehicle aerodynamics, cement, turbo-heating, future propulsion systems, airframe-engine integration.
Some key centres and initiatives include:
- Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials
- Centre for Sustainable Road Freight (SRF)
- Whittle Lab
- Resource Efficiency Collective
- Cambridge Circular Plastics Centre
- Winton Programme for the Physics of Sustainability
- Cambridge Centre for Industrial Sustainability
- Cambridge Centre for Carbon Reduction in Chemical Technology (C4T)
- CARES
- Nano Manufacturing group
Spin-out: Levidian producing hydrogen and graphene through the decarbonisation of methane
Researchers working in this area:
| Prof Julian Allwood |
Professor of Engineering and the Environment |
| Prof Abir Al-Tabbaa |
Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering Member of the Energy IRC Steering Committee |
| Dr Nicholas Atkins | University Associate Professor |
| Prof Holger Babinsky | Professor of Aerodynamics |
| Prof Stewart Cant |
Professor of Computational Engineering |
| Prof David Cebon |
Professor of Mechanical Engineering Member of the Energy IRC Steering Committee |
| Prof David Cole |
Professor of Mechanical Engineering |
| Prof Tim Coombs |
Professor of Electromagnetism |
| Prof Jonathan Cullen |
Professor of Sustainable Engineering Member of the Energy IRC Steering Committee |
| Prof Vikram Deshpande |
Professor of Materials Engineering |
| Prof James Elliott |
Professor of Macromolecular Materials Science |
| Prof Tim Flack |
Lecturer |
| Prof Norman Fleck |
Professor of Mechanics of Materials (1997) |
| Prof Stuart Haigh | Professor of Geotechnical Engineering |
| Prof Cesare Hall | Professor of Aerothermal Engineering |
| Prof Hugh Hunt | Professor of Engineering Dynamics and Vibration |
| Prof Matthew Juniper | Professor of Thermofluid Dynamics |
| Prof Markus Kraft | Professor of Chemical Engineering |
| Prof Janet Lees | Professor of Civil Engineering |
| Dr John Longley | Senior Lecturer |
| Prof Gopal Madabhushi | Professor of Civil Engineering |
| Prof Epaminondas Mastorakos | Hopkinson & Imperial Chemical Industries Professor of Applied Thermodynamics (1950) |
| Prof Allan McRobie | Professor of Structural Engineering |
| Prof Campbell Middleton | Laing O'Rourke Professor of Construction Engineering |
| Prof John Miles | Director of Research in Transitional Energy Strategies |
| Prof Rob Miller | Professor of Aerothermal Technology |
| Prof Graham Pullan | Professor of Computational Aerothermal Design |
| Prof Michael Ramage | Professor of Architecture and Engineering |
| Prof Keith Seffen | Professor of Engineering Mechanics |
| Dr Hugh Shercliff | University Associate Professor |
| Prof Malcolm Smith | Professor in Control Engineering |
| Prof Howard Stone | Professor of Metallurgy |
| Prof Nedunchezhian Swaminathan | Professor of Mechanical Engineering |
| Prof Paul Tucker | Rank Professor of Engineering |
| Prof Glenn Vinnicombe | Professor of Control Engineering |
| Dr Liping Xu | Lecturer in Turbomachinery |