Professor David Fletcher
David is a graduate of Leeds University and received his PhD on crack growth in railway steels from University of Sheffield in 1999. He conducted post-doctoral research at Newcastle University focused on full-scale railway engineering testing before returning to Sheffield in 2009. He has been awarded several prizes for research in the railway area, undertaken a short JSPS fellowship at Rail Technical Research Institute in Japan, and progressed from lecturer to a full professor at University of Sheffield.
David’s research crosses several areas of engineering design, tribology, system engineering and performance of materials. The majority of his work has application in the railway sector, and combines experimental and modelling approaches.