Researcher joins manufacturing forum
Wed, 15 May 2013 12:56:00 BST
Metrologist Haydn selected for EPSRC Early Career Forum in Manufacturing Research
Dr Haydn Martin is among them (pictured).
A metrologist, he is a research fellow within the University’s EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Advanced Metrology where his research includes the development of optical sensors that will enable high-spec products to be manufactured to much higher degrees of accuracy and at reduced cost.
It is research which is a close fit with the project termed “Manufacturing the Future” launched by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC). It followed this up by announcing the formation of an Early Career Forum in Manufacturing Research.
The Forum has now been launched, consisting of 20 scientists from the UK’s leading universities. They were chosen from more than 70 applicants.
“It was a great privilege to be one of those selected,” said Dr Martin. “I am honoured to be seen as a potential future research leader and over the course of my career I hope to be very active in developing the UK’s worldwide standing at the forefront of manufacturing research.”
Dr Haydn Martin (left) explaining his cutting edge research with Business Secretary Dr Vince Cable at the launch of the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing in Advanced Metrology.
Dr Martin said the Forum had already met and developed a strategy. A key part would be collaborative research. Also, forum members would receive coaching to help them promote their own research profiles.
One of the strengths of the Forum was that it included scientists from a wide range of disciplines, added Dr Martin. Their focus was on promoting UK research and the benefits it would bring to UK manufacturing industry.
He cited the University of Huddersfield’s EPSRC Centre as an example of fruitful collaboration between the academic and the industrial worlds.
“One of our strengths is that we are very industry active, with numerous industrial partners. We are certainly not working in an academic bubble but looking for applications for technologies as we are developing them.”
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