External collaborators:

• Universities of Cardiff, Cranfield, Imperial College, Nottingham, Southampton and Warwick, UK
• National Institute for Materials Science, Japan
• Alstom Power Ltd.
• EDF
• E.On UK
• Doosan Babcock Energy Ltd.
• Goodwin Steel Castings
• NPL
• Rolls-Royce plc
• RWE npower
• Siemens.

External roles and appointments:

• High-Temperature Materials and Surface Engineering Committees of the Institute of Materials
• EPSRC Peer Review College and frequent UK and international panel member
• Member of EPSRC Strategic Advisory Team External Examiner for BEng Materials Engineering at Swansea University (2008-2011) and Cambridge (2014-)
• Member of NPL Materials Advisory Group (2011-)
• Assessor for Helmholtz Association, Germany
• Chair of the M5 Universities Operations Group