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Professor Martin Goosey is a Director of MTG Research Ltd, which was founded in 2003. He was also Industrial Director of the Innovative electronics Manufacturing Research Centre (IeMRC) based at Loughborough University (2005-2015). A chemist by training with a PhD in microelectronics reliability, Martin has over 40 years materials related experience in the electronics industry.
Prior to his current roles, he was Chief Scientist and Technology Fellow at Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials Ltd’s (formerly Shipley) European headquarters in Coventry, where he had responsibility for strategic R&D activities.
Before joining Shipley in 1992, he worked at Plessey’s Caswell Research Laboratories, where he held various positions including Senior Group Leader and Strategic Planning Manager.
Martin has also worked at the Morton Chemical Research Centre in Woodstock, Illinois, Dynachem’s Laboratories in Tustin, California and, immediately before joining Shipley, was a Senior Manager with the Technology Marketing Division of the Welsh Development Agency.
Martin is a Chartered Scientist, a Chartered Chemist, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, and a Fellow of the Institute of Circuit Technology.
He has held senior management roles in various organisations representing the interests of the UK and European electronics industries e.g. he was Vice Chairman of the European Institute of Printed Circuits, Chairman of Intellect’s Environmental Working Group and Chairman of the Institute of Circuit Technology.
Qualifications and Awards
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
- Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining
- Fellow of the Institute of Circuit Technology
- Chartered Chemist
- Chartered Scientist
Areas of interest embrace the use of materials in electronics manufacturing and their recovery and recycling at end of life, with a focus on new, more efficient processes that are sustainable.
For the last twenty-five years, Martin has been increasingly active in the development and deployment of new environmentally friendly materials, assembly technologies and manufacturing processes for the electronics industry. He has also specialised in the development of new resource recovery and recycling methods, especially for strategically important critical raw materials, such as gallium, indium, palladium, cobalt and the lanthanides.
He has authored numerous papers and articles, and is a named inventor on various patents, covering a wide range of new technologies including materials recovery and recycling and waste minimisation aspects. Martin has also contributed to, and edited, several books on materials used in electronics and various environmental/sustainability related topics.
He was for, many years, editor in chief of the international technical journals ‘Soldering and Surface Mount Technology’ and ‘Circuit World’. Now partly retired, Martin is continuing to collaborate on various research projects, including a recently completed Innovate UK supported study into new methods for gallium and indium recovery from end of life LEDs. He is also currently working on a European Horizon 2020 project to separate and recover plastics and metals from multilayer composite materials using novel green solvents.
Grants and Contracts
- 2004 - 2015 - Industrial Director of the Innovative Electronics Manufacturing Centre, Wolfson School, Loughborough University.
- 2020 – 2021 - ReGaIL (Recovery of Gallium from Ionic Liquids), a UK collaborative R&D project supported by Innovate UK.
- 2020 – 2023 - Sol-Rec2 - Innovative digital watermarks and green solvents for the recovery and recycling of multi-layer materials. Funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme under grant agreement 101003532.
- 2018 - 2021 - VALUABLE - VALUe chain And Battery Lifecycle Exploitation, a UK collaborative R&D project supported by Innovate UK. Project No: 104182
- Ongoing - Proposal reviewer for Innovate UK, as well as European Organisations such as COST and M-ERA.Net.
- Ongoing - Project Monitoring Officer for Innovate UK R&D projects.
- MTG Research Ltd
- Institute of Circuit Technology (member of the ICT Council)
Recent collaborations with:
- University of Leicester, TWI, Innovate UK, Aimplas (Valencia, Spain), IPM2 (Paris, France).