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Meet the Business Fellows

The ‘Business Fellows Network for Intelligent Mobility’ is a network of experts joint funded by the Connected Places Catapult and participating academic institutions with strong records in transport research and innovation across the UK.

The aim is to bring university outputs closer to commercialisation and enable academics to increase their industry engagement, entrepreneurship and research impact as well as creating commercial and CR&D opportunities between the Connected Places Catapult, universities and industry.

Fellows have joined from 11 academic institutes including the Universities of Lancaster, Leeds, Nottingham, Surrey, Liverpool, Northampton, Hertfordshire and Kent; and Manchester Metropolitan, Cranfield and Newcastle Universities.

You can learn more about these fellows in the following biographies.

Business Fellows

Simon is Industry Engagement Manager at the University of Kent in Canterbury.

He gained a post-graduate diploma in Sustainable Business from the University of Cambridge, chaired the Passenger Car Working Group of the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership and the City of London Sustainability Forum.

His role is to further innovation related to the Industrial Strategy – so, the question of how to increase productivity of UK plc and the four grand challenges; AI and data, future of mobility, clean growth and healthy ageing.

Simon’s experience has largely been in supply chains across a wide number of sectors, including grocery, forest products, recycling and automotive. Each of these sectors’ supply chains have their own characteristics and are at different stages of maturity.

Under the Future of Mobility theme of the Industrial Strategy, Simon helps the University seek projects that bring technology and business case together. Data and information is often the key to success here as well as having an adept and flexible system-wide approach. Simon helps bring competitors in a supply chain together for Collaborations which create a better sustainable outcome.

Simon Barnes

Technology

Business Case

Integration


Richard is a senior academic at the University of Liverpool, currently leading the Design Initiative at the University’s London Campus, and previously as Associate Head of Industrial and Automotive Design at Coventry University. Previously, Richard has occupied roles with Ford, Nissan and Herman Miller as well significant roles across Market Research agencies.

Richard has considerable expertise in the fields of perceived quality, customer adoption, and customer insight for integration in new product development. He has conducted numerous research studies and innovation programmes for organisation’s across the automotive, transportation and design sectors. These have included improving customer insight, the integration of customer data into design, policy development and infrastructure development.

Richard sits on the Members council and the Innovation Working Group at LowCVP and chairs the Passenger Car working Group. He is currently conducting research into developing conditions to support L-Category vehicles and supporting the transition to WLTP.

Richard is also part of a European consortium investigating University-Business collaboration. This work programme seeks to develop a cloud-based platform for globally distributed design, and brings experience in leading industrial, academic activity and in driving and facilitating significant change.

Dr Richard Barrett

Customer Insight

Design & Perceived Quality

Consumer Information & Design

After working on the development of managers within the automotive industry and as a consultant targeting quality improvement, Keith spent seven years working on the interconnections between University and industry and in particular SMEs at the time of the development of electric vehicles.

Keith then became the Managing Director of EValu8, a wholly owned company of the University of Hertfordshire, whose role was the implementation of EV charging infrastructure.

Apart from the practical implementation, this afforded consultancy and associated opportunities. Behind all this has been twenty-five years of industrial experience covering manufacturing and quality in the areas of medical electronics, and laboratory instrumentation across a range of companies from GEC-Marconi down to SMEs.

Dr Keith Bevis

Innovation

Electric Vehicles

MaaS


Richard Bowden is Professor of Computer Vision and Machine Learning at the University of Surrey where he leads the Cognitive Vision Group within CVSSP and is Associate Dean for postgraduate research within his faculty. His research centres on the use of computer vision to locate, track, understand and learn from humans. He has held over 40 research grants from UK, EU funding bodies as well as industrial funded projects.

These projects cover areas such as cognitive robotics and vision, sign and gesture recognition, lip-reading and nonverbal communication as well as many fundamental topics to computer vision such as tracking and detection. His research has been recognised by prizes, plenary talks and media/press coverage including the Sullivan thesis prize in 2000 and many best paper awards.

To date, he has published over 190 peer reviewed publications and has served as either program committee member or area chair for ICCV, CVPR, ECCV, BMVA, FG and ICPR in addition to numerous international workshops and conferences. He is an Associate Editor for the journals Image and Vision Computing and IEEE Trans Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (the top journal in his field). He was awarded a Royal Society Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship in 2013 and is a member of the RS international exchanges committee.

He was a member of the British Machine Vision Association (BMVA) executive committee and a company director for seven years. He is a member of the BMVA, a senior member of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. He was awarded a prestigious Fellowship of the International Association of Pattern Recognition in 2016.

Dr Richard Bowden

AV Decision Maker

Powertrain

5G testbed for CVs

Soufiene Djahel received the M.Sc. degree in computer science from the University of Bejaia, Algeria, in 2007, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from Lille 1 University of Science and Technology, France, in 2010.

He was an Engineering Research Manager with the University College Dublin, Ireland, where he conducted and led research activities on Intelligent Mobility (IM) for four years.

He has been a Senior Lecturer with the School of Computing, Mathematics and Digital Technology, Manchester Metropolitan University, U.K., since Sep. 2015, and has recently joined the Business Fellow Network of Transport Systems Catapult. His main research interests include Security and QoS (Quality of Service) issues in wireless networks and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), with a focus on developing robust and secure communication protocols for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) to enable safety and non-safety applications, as well as designing ICT driven solutions to reduce road traffic congestion and mitigate its resulting impact.

He is leading the Smart Cities lab at Manchester Met and has led successful collaborations with the industry such as IBM Ireland. He is senior member of the IEEE and fellow of the Higher Education Academy in the U.K. Since 2008, he has published more than 50 peer reviewed conference and journal papers in the reputable IEEE Core/Flagship conferences and journals in wireless networks and ITS research domain. Dr. Djahel is a well-known researcher in the field of wireless networks and ITS as he has undertaken numerous leadership roles in more than 20 IEEE co-sponsored international conferences and workshops and delivered a number of invited talks about his work on ITS in China, Italy, France and Morocco. He is regularly invited to serve on the technical program committee of the IEEE flagship conferences and as a reviewer for a number of IEEE Transactions in his research field. Dr. Djahel has shown outstanding skills in inspiring undergrad, MSc and PhD students to produce high quality research work investigating timely and significant research problems.

Soufiene Djahel

Intelligent Transport Systems

Connected & Autonomous Vehicles

Internet of Things


Paul is a Business Development Manager who has worked at the University of Bradford and Nottingham Trent University. His experience spans from public and private sector as well as higher education. Paul has bought industry and academia together to form collaborative projects and also has experiences in submitting and securing research and innovation funding.

Whilst working at the University of Bradford, Paul managed a European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) project which enabled SMEs to access innovation support via academia. He also managed the Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTP) office at the University.

In addition, Paul co-supervises the LIDA Data Science Internship Programme, a unique and highly successful graduate programme to train and develop the next generation of Data Scientists.

Paul Evans

Data

Urban

Mobility

Liam is the Head of Research for Logistics, Supply Chain and Transportation, strategically leading impactful research allied to social impacts on societies connection to transportation, logistics and supply chain resilience. He is the Director and founding partner of a Transformational Social Enterprise University spin out business, tasked with building social value through logistics and transportation networks.

He has provided research expertise through numerous European Commission projects, such as seventh framework project. Liam has delivered subject matter expertise in UK and European rail/road intermodal markets and Horizon 2020 programmes to mention just a few. He has also assisted UK Government research with the Department for Transport on Smart city transportation and the Government Office of Science, delivering intelligence around freight and transportation futures (GO Science).

Liam has engaged as an expert adviser to Seafish (DEFRA) on food supply chain resilience, All Party Sustainable Resource Group in the areas of Supply chain and Food security (APSRG), and Office of the Government Chief Scientific Adviser around freight futures. He is a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society and appointed to the advisory boards of the Local Government Authority logistics strategy group, Non-Exec Director for SOCIETAL Value CIC, and twice awarded Global social media Influencer in the field of Supply Chain Management.

Liam Fassam

Machine Learning

Connected Logistics

People Behaviour


Dr Stefano Longo is a Senior Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Vehicle Control at Cranfield University. He received his MSc in Control Systems from the University of Sheffield in 2007 and completed his PhD in Networked Control Systems at the University of Bristol in 2011.

His PhD thesis was awarded by the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) Control and Automation Prize for significant achievements in the area of control engineering. In November 2010 he was appointed to the position of Research Associate at Imperial College London.

He is currently the Course Director for the MSc in Automotive Mechatronics and MSc in Advanced Motorsport Mechatronics, a Senior Member of the IEEE, a Chartered Engineer, Associate Editor of the Elsevier Journal on Mechatronics, elected executive member of the IET Control & Automation Network and IET Automotive & Road Transport Systems Network, and member of the IFAC technical committee on Mechatronic Systems and Automotive Control.

In the last few years he has authored two books and over 70 research papers in peer-refereed journals and international conferences.

Dr Stefano Longo

Transport

Optimisation

Automation

Elizabeth is an experienced Business Development professional with a history of working at the interface of industrial and academic collaboration in sustainability, engineering, materials science, the transport sector, energy and other related areas. She is the business partnerships and engagement manager for Physical Sciences in the Faculty of Science and Technology at Lancaster University.

The aim of the role is to support academics to engage with industry to form partnerships. This may be for collaborative research projects, contract research, Innovate UK funded projects and long-term strategic relationships that can deliver impact across the institution. Elizabeth also looks at wider cross faculty collaborations, for example in sustainable and connected transport, energy and materials.

Elizabeth was previously a Business Development Manager at Brunel University London, and before that, worked as a Knowledge Transfer Manager at Environmental Sustainability Knowledge Transfer Network.

Elizabeth Mullis

Logistics

Decarbonisation

Hydrogen


Ben work’s in the Corporate Partnerships Team within Research and Innovation at the University of Nottingham. He coordinates the Transport sector within the team which includes Automotive, Rail and Intelligent Mobility

The Corporate Partnership team works in conjunction with academic schools and other professional services teams to develop and manage long-term strategic relationships with key corporate businesses in order to enhance the relevance and impact of the University’s research and training activities, driving increased industrial income and further the University’s external reputation.

Ben helps to link existing and new corporate partners to functions across the University including student recruitment, CPD services, and research capabilities.

The University of Nottingham research portfolio in the Transport area includes propulsion and power systems, electrification, lightweighting and advanced manufacturing, intelligent vehicles and infrastructure and seamless mobility of people and goods.

In his role, Ben helps coordinate collaborative research bids including Innovate UK, APC and other funding sources. He also is helping with the coordination of the University’s response to the ISCF including the Future Mobility strand and the Driving the Electrification Revolution proposal.

Ben’s role is vital to these research bids as he helps link the different research groups and faculties together which is necessary in multidisciplinary proposals. Ben’s team is also involved in bringing together large-scale funding bids including the Centre for Doctoral Training calls, the EPSRC Prosperity Partnership calls and the Strength in Places fund.

Ben Nichols

Transport

Mobility

Cities

Eric has supported numerous successful research bids for Leeds Institute for Transport Studies and has also delivered a “Deep Academic Alliance” with the Transport Systems Catapult to bolster Leeds’ position as a UK centre of excellence.

Eric has been pivotal to the University of Leeds “Virtuocity” city simulation programme, to support the virtual prototyping of new products, systems and interventions.

He has developed and launched “Bradford Observatory” – a multi- agency intelligence-hub for Bradford District – a digital platform for transformational improvement in the delivery of Council and partner services in collaboration with citizens.

Eric has also developed the pioneering use of GIS for community engagement and empowerment through the nationally recognised ‘Bradford Community Statistics Project’.

Dr Erik Thomasson

Collaboration

Co-design

Vituocity


Tom is a knowledgeable academic and a skilled commercial manager, who for 15 years managed purchasing, production control, distribution and overall supply chain, in manufacturing industry. In this period Tom gained experience road, rail and sea freight. Working in the steel, automotive, transport and machine tools industries.

For the last 15 years he has pursued an academic career and is currently a Principal Research Associate, managing the Freight and Logistics research group, deliverables and dissemination in EU research projects, and pursuing academic and applied research, at Newcastle University.

Tom has presented his research work and outcomes at international scientific, policy, and business conferences and workshops and has a strong portfolio of publications: procedia, trade press, book chapters and journal articles.

He teaches freight and logistics on MSc courses at Newcastle University, as well as having researched and delivered international curriculum development for rail operations and logistics. He helped develop a fuel management module, for deployment in higher education, as part of the UK Freight Best Practice programme. He is also a project evaluator and reviewer for the European Commission in the field of the public procurement of innovation.

His current focus areas include rail freight; city logistics; ICT and transport logistics; and sustainable procurement.

Tom Zunder

Freight

Sustainability

Urban

Academic Alliance Fellows


Bani is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Intelligent Mobility in the Centre for transport Studies at the University College London (UCL), and a Visiting Academic at the University of Southampton.

She received the BSc degree in Civil Eng. from the Science and Culture University, the MSc degree in Advanced Architectural Studies from the Bartlett at UCL, and the PhD degree in Mixed Traffic Modelling from Imperial College London in 2008, 2009 and 2014, respectively. Her research interests include human driver interaction inside and outside of future semi-/fully-autonomous vehicles, traffic and infrastructure modelling, vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) / vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications in order to create intelligent transportation systems, converting qualitative to quantitative data, applying Machine Learning and multi-criteria optimisation models, and translating these models to real-world problems in order to deliver technology and policy impact.

Dr Bani Anvari

Autonomous Vehicles

Traffic Modelling

V2V Infrastructure

Nik is an Energy Infrastructure Research and Knowledge Exchange Fellow at the University of Birmingham. His background expertise is in Chemical Engineering (Dipl, PhD) and Ecology (MSc).

In 2014, Nik joined the School of Civil Engineering and the Environment (University of Southampton) as a Research Fellow in an EPSRC-SUPERGEN Bioenergy Hub project examining the synergy between pyrolysis fractions and anaerobic digestion.

Later, in 2017, Nik worked at the European Bioenergy Research Institute (EBRI-Aston University) as a Business Research Associate in an ERDF project that provided services (consultancy, advice on policy for waste/biofuels/sustainability, technical issues, knowledge transfer and networking) to West Midlands SMEs in the bioenergy sector.

During the project, Nik delivered a seminar session (‘Masterclass’), engaged with more than 30 businesses managing diverse and challenging enquiries, authored six reports (technical and market analysis reports) and co-authored 11 reports, and contributed to the creation of a carbon calculator toolkit.

Nik’s current post at the University of Birmingham is to propel forward relationships with industrial and strategic partners to drive knowledge exchange and impact acceleration activities. Specifically, to foster collaborative ventures between academics, key strategic partners (including Birmingham City Council and the Local Enterprise Partnership), core industry partners and the end-user community that map across the Energy – Buried Infrastructure research and technology development programmes.

Dr Nikolaos Venetsaneas

Energy Infrastructure

Knowledge Exchange

Impact Acceleration


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