Professor Patrick Grant
Co-Investigator
Vesuvius Professor of Materials
Head, Department of Materials, University of Oxford
Address: Department of Materials, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3PH, UK
Email: patrick.grant@materials.ox.ac.uk
Telephone: +44(0)1865 283763 (Begbroke office) / +44(0)1865 273700 (switchboard)
Website: http://users.ox.ac.uk/~pgrant
Professor Patrick Grant FREng has held the Vesuvius Chair of Materials at Oxford University since 2004, and is Head of the Department of Materials. His research interests include understanding of the complex underlying physics during materials processing and their link to microstructural evolution, and developing novel manufacturing routes based on solidification. He has published over 200 papers and 6 patents (3 licensed). From 1999 to 2004, he was Director of the Oxford Centre for Advanced Materials and Composites (OCAMAC) that helps to coordinate industrial materials related research across Oxford University, and was Director of Faraday Partnership for Transport Materials from 2000 until 2007 when he became Executive Director of the Transport & Sustainability theme within the Materials KTN. He was one of the founding academics of the Begbroke Science Park at Oxford University, now a major regional and international hub for innovation and close industrial-university collaboration. In 2010 he was elected a Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering.
He was a member of 2008 Research Assessment Exercise panel for Metallurgy and Materials and a member of the UK Fusion Advisory Board 2007-12. He wrote evidence paper New and Advanced Materials for the UK Government Office of Science Foresight Report Future of Manufacturing (2013). He advises the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council through the Strategic Advisor Network, and is a member of the Rolls-Royce Materials, Manufacture and Structures Advisory Board and the Constellium Scientific Council, and a director of Oxford University Innovation Ltd.
Research Interests: Solidification science and technology; in-situ studies using X-ray radiography and tomography; modelling of materials processing and the link to microstructural evolution; spray deposition and powder-based processes; alloy development including high entropy alloys.