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Last updated: 15 May 2025

MRes/PhD
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Current Sector: Industry

Current Company: Infineum

PhD Project Title: Novel initiators for the production of copolymers

Supervisor: Matthew Jones (Chemistry)

Supervisor: Matthew Davidson (Chemistry)

MRes Project 1: Bespoke polymers for tissue engineering applications

Supervisor(s): Matthew Jones (Chemistry)

MRes Project 2: Molecular design of scaffold for tissue engineering applications

Supervisor(s): Marianne Ellis (Chemical Engineering)

Tom studied for his MChem (Chemistry) at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. The final year of his course was spent on industrial placement with Lubrizol Ltd in Manchester. He was a member of the Hyperdispersant research team, developing polymer-type additives for plastics and unsaturated polyester resins. After graduating in 2008 he continued working for Lubrizol as a graduate research chemist before moving to Bath and joining the CDT in September 2009.