Gavin Joins University of Cambridge Department of Engineering as Academic Collaborator

Gavin has joined the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge as an Academic Collaborator and Affiliated Researcher. He will work with the Cambridge Industrial Resilience Group and the team at the Global Supply Chain Observatory, based within the Institute for Manufacturing (IfM), and thanks Mukesh Kumar and colleagues for their welcome.

The aim is to build a bridge between complementary research on critical materials and supply chain resilience at the University of Birmingham and the University of Cambridge. The role runs alongside his main position at the University of Birmingham and formalises collaboration with the Critical Materials community in Cambridge built up over the preceding couple of years.

Having moved from the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences to Birmingham Business School, Gavin describes the appointment as a return to a leading engineering department, working on interdisciplinary questions at the intersection of engineering, manufacturing systems and business strategy.