Meet the team

Led by Professor David Kirk of Newcastle University’s Open Lab, the new Centre brings together 30 academics and 20 post-doctoral researchers from Newcastle and Northumbria Universities.

Centre Co-Directors

Centre Co-Director

Abigail Durrant

Centre Co-Director

Pam Briggs

Centre Co-Director

David Kirk

Operations

Operations

Emily Barker

Operations

Rob Anderson

Co-Investigators

Co-Investigator

Ahmed Kharrufa

Co-Investigator

Shaun Lawson

Co-Investigator

Vasilis Vlachokyriakos

Co-Investigator

Jayne Wallace

Co-Investigator

Kyle Montague

Co-Investigator

Thomas Scharf

Co-Investigator

Liz Sillence

Co-Investigator

Lynne Coventry

Co-Investigator

Catherine Exley

Co-Investigator

Jon Rogers

Co-Investigator

Mark Tewdwr-Jones

Co-Investigator

Rajiv Ranjan

Co-Investigator

Rob Wilson

Co-Investigator

Nick Taylor

Co-Investigator

Clara Crivellaro

Co-Investigator

Aad Van Moorsel

Co-Investigator

Phil James

Co-Investigator

Paul Watson

Co-Investigator

Caroline Walker Gleaves

Co-Investigator

Liz Todd

Co-Investigator

Roger Burrows

Co-Investigator

James Nicholson

Co-Investigator

John Vines

Innovation Fellows & Researchers

Researcher

Caroline Claisse

Researcher

Dawn Branley Bell

Researcher

Jenny Liddle

Researcher

Ian Johnson

Researcher

Henry Collingham

Researcher

Martin King

Researcher

Marion Lean

Researcher

Sebastian Prost

Researcher

Tasos Spiliotopoulos

Researcher

Carolina Are

Researcher

David Jamieson

Researcher

Denise Lengyel

Researcher

David Chatting

Researcher

Anna Carter

Researcher

Lauren Scott

Researcher

Maria Tibbs