Professor Steve Bull: Cookson Group Chair of Engineering Materials

• Email: steve.bull@ncl.ac.uk
• Telephone: +44 (0) 191 2087913
• Fax: +44 (0) 191 208 7913
• Address: School of Engineering
  Bedson Building
  Newcastle University
  Newcastle upon Tyne
  NE1 7RU

I have been at Newcastle since 1996 when I moved from AEA Technology, Harwell. At the time I moved I was running most of the engineering coatings activities at Harwell and carrying out contract research in a range of areas of Surface Engineering, joining and high temperature oxidation and corrosion. My current focus is on introducing students to advanced materials and manufacturing technologies and carrying out industrially-relevant research in the Surface Engineering/mechanics area – I specialise in the mechanical assessment of submicron coatings and composite materials in renewable energy systems like flexible photovoltaics and tidal stream turbines. My work bridges the experimental/modelling divide.