Alexander Bismarck | Professor | Polymer and Composite Engineering Group, Imperial College
Prof. Alexander Bismarck is Prof of Materials Chemistry (UniVie) and Polymer Materials (Imperial) and heads the PaCE group. Prior to his appointment as Lecturer in the Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial, in 2002, he worked as an R&D engineer for Sulzer Composites, Winterthur, CH. There he was responsible for the development, optimisation, manufacturing and characterisation of new fibre-rein-forced polymers, prototypes and preproduction components. His research focuses on the chemical aspects and manufacturing of advanced composites (including fibre-reinforced nanocomposites). He has (co-)authored over 160 papers, 1 book, and several book chapters and is Editor of Reactive and Functional Polymers. He was awarded one of six prestigious £1m EPSRC Challenging Engineering Awards in 2006, intended to support future engineering research leaders. He is co-PI (with Prof M. Wisnom from Bristol) of a £6M EPSRC Programme grant, in the field of composite engineering, for the development of high performance ductile composites.
