Dr Fiona Sillars
Senior Knowledge Exchange Fellow
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Personal statement
KEY EXPERTISE: MATERIALS DEGRADATION BEHAVIOUR, MATERIALS SELECTION AND CHARACTERISATION Deputy Director of Knowledge Exchange for Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and Team Lead of the Advanced Materials Research Laboratory (AMRL), Dr Sillars provides technical solutions in materials engineering for a range of industrial customers. Over the years, she has set up and delivered over a hundred projects, including material qualification programmes and failure investigations. Currently, she leads research on the transition to sustainable energies both in relation to wind energy the transition to hydrogen. Funded projects include EPSRC-IAA on Dynamic Loading Distribution on Wind Turbine Yaw System, a Innovate UK, Knowledge Transfer Partnership on Wind Turbine Decommissioning and several SIR- and ETP-funded projects on failure investigation and materials characterisation of wind turbine components. Prior to joining the AMRL, Dr Sillars worked on an EPSRC-funded SUPERGEN Programme in electrochemical energy storage for electric vehicles. From there, she carried out research for Tata Steel through the SPECIFIC project (buildings as power stations) and for the MoD/EPSRC Solar Soldier project (wearable power generation). Dr Sillars was the UK representative for Batteries and Supercapacitors for the European Energy Researchers Alliance (EERA) for Energy Storage.
Prize And Awards
- CeeD Industry Awards 2025 - Circular Economy
- Recipient
- 6/3/2025
Publications
- Impact of temperature on ophthalmic viscosurgical devices and clinical implications : a pilot study
- Henry Caoimhe, Castro Alejandro Thompson, Belkessa Mohamed, Rycroft Ewan, Syntouka Ioanna M, Silva Andreia, Sillars Fiona, Oliveira Mónica SN, Lockington David
- Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Vol 50, pp. 1173-1179 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1097/j.jcrs.0000000000001513
- Interpass peening impact on residual stress in wire-arc additive manufactured Ti 6Al-4V using phased-array ultrasonic testing
- Walker Joseph, Mills Brandon, Javadi Yashar, Sun Yongle, Taraphdar Pradeeptta Kumar, Sillars Fiona, MacLeod Charles Norman, Gachagan Anthony, Pierce Gareth
- ASTM International Conference on Advanced Manufacturing 2024
(2024) - Study of residual stress using phased array ultrasonics in Ti-6AL-4V wire-arc additively manufactured components
- Walker Joseph, Mills Brandon, Javadi Yashar, MacLeod Charles, Sun Yongle, Taraphdar Pradeeptta Kumar, Ahmad Bilal, Gurumurthy Sundar, Ding Jialuo, Sillars Fiona
- Sensors Vol 24 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.3390/s24196372
- Rheology of ophthalmic viscoelastic devices (OVDs)
- Oliveira Monica, Castro AT, Henry C, Belkessa M, Rycroft Ewan, Syntouka Ioanna Marina, Silva AF, Sillars Fiona, Lockington D
- UK Fluids Conference 2023 (2023)
- The impact of temperature on ophthalmic viscoelastic devices and the clinical implications : a pilot study
- Oliveira Monica, Henry C, Castro AT, Rycroft Ewan, Syntouka Ioanna Marina, Belkessa M, Sillars Fiona, Lockington D
- The Royal College of Ophthalmologists (RCOphth) Annual Congress 2023 (2023)
- Trust in Materials
- Marrocco Tiziana, Sillars Fiona, Race Julia
- 31 (2023)
Professional Activities
- Strategic Themes: EPSRC Multi-Disciplinary IM3AGES Facility Workshop
- Participant
- 26/2/2024
- SOC - Scottish Ophthalmological Club Spring Meeting 2023
- Participant
- 24/2/2023
- AMRL/LMC External Event
- Participant
- 9/12/2019
Projects
- Permeation of Vintage Pipeline Materials in Hydrogen Environments - Phase 1
- Sillars, Fiona (Principal Investigator) Marrocco, Tiziana (Co-investigator) Race, Julia (Co-investigator)
- 27-Jan-2025 - 31-Jan-2025
- AFRC-CRAD-06476 - TARGET H2 - Batch 40 ATI
- Jadhav, Sandip (Co-investigator) Paslioglu, Kadir (Co-investigator) Bucconi, Marco (Principal Investigator) Nelson, Kyle (Researcher) Banerjee, Amborish (Researcher) Gourlay, Gordon (Researcher) Yakushina, Evgenia (Principal Investigator) Zhang, Min (Researcher) Sillars, Fiona (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 06-Jan-2027
- Wind Turbine Decommissioning: Caliper Fatigue Study (AKT with Renewable Parts)
- Sillars, Fiona (Principal Investigator)
- 25-Jan-2024 - 24-Jan-2024
- Green Hydrogen Integration at Sullom Voe (EETF Hydrogen Innovation Scheme)
- Sillars, Fiona (Principal Investigator) Li, Jun (Co-investigator) Marrocco, Tiziana (Co-investigator) Race, Julia (Co-investigator) Roy, Sudipta (Co-investigator)
- 03-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2024
- KTP - Coolside Ltd. Project will embed knowledge to enable product lifecycle optimisation and carbon footprint reduction through the design and manufacture of products from recycled polymer-materials.
- Sillars, Fiona (Principal Investigator) Liggat, John (Co-investigator) MacBryde, Jillian (Co-investigator) Marrocco, Tiziana (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2025
- EPSRC IAA: Prototype Cell for Non-ambient X-ray Measurements of Net Zero Materials
- Sillars, Fiona (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2025
Contact
Dr
Fiona
Sillars
Senior Knowledge Exchange Fellow
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Email: fiona.sillars@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4721