I am a Research Fellow in Aviation Fuels and Lubricant thermal stability and a Chartered Engineer. I studied Mechanical Engineering as an undergraduate in Sheffield and this is where I got introduced to the wonderful world of fluid mechanics and heat transfer. I carried out my final year project with the Aerodynamics group on Blended Wing Body aircraft which won the IMechE's best project prize in 2004.

I carried out PhD research at Sheffield for an EU FP7 project and Rolls Royce, which involved setting up a large scale test facility (one level prior to gas turbine testing) for investigating lubricant and system interactions, as well as developing modelling software for chemically reacting flows and lubricants. I continued this work as Research Associate with funding directly from Rolls Royce.