An experienced applied and academic researcher who has spent extensive time in a range of roles from commercial; production; quality and technical support; to academic research. This mainly includes material research, production and scale up of polymers, plastics & composites; and also energy research including renewables, combustion, pyrolysis and gasification. More recently I have been heavily involved in the Iron and Steel industry reseraching the extraction and recovery of process dusts and co-products; plus the improved utilisation of injection reductants in the blast furnace.