Edward Archer

Dr Edward Archer BEng (Hons), PhD Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (2003). Senior Lecturer of Advanced Composite materials in the School of Engineering and course director for the MSc provision in the school. His research is focused on manufacturing and characterising through-thickness composite reinforcement structures and the prediction of their properties, with key aspects of the work carried out in collaboration with major companies in several industrial sectors. He has recently been awarded a prestigious EPSRC grant to develop new composite materials and follow-on funding under the EPSRC Future Composites Manufacturing Hub.

In addition, he has developed a bespoke composites training course for Aerospace professionals which he has delivered to 1200 Engineers in UK and Canada and developed this material into 3 book chapters (Elsevier). He has published over 70 outputs in this field and his research group operates both within the Engineering Composites Research Centre at Ulster and at Northern Ireland Advanced Composites and Engineering Centre (NIACE) in Belfast. He is Technical Director at the University spinout company Axis Composites Ltd. He currently sits on the British Composite Society board and leads the Working Group on Meetings and Events. He has attracted over £7M of funding as PI/CoI. I have previous experience of reviewing EU proposals including MSCA.