Professor James Thomason

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

• Exceptionally qualified Composite Materials Scientist with balanced expertise in fibre reinforcements, sizings, surface & interface science, polymer matrices, composite processing, structure-property relationships, micromechanical and molecular modelling • Extensive experience leading multifunctional, multicultural, global teams developing and commercializing new and novel fibre and polymer composite products. • Unique international experience in New Product and New Business Development within the Research Departments of major multinational companies. • Wide-ranging research experience investigating interfacial phenomena and (re)processing-structure-property relationships in fibre reinforced polymer composites. • Proven experience of driving successful research and development programmes in cross-cultural environment gained in Belgium, the USA, the Netherlands, Germany and the UK. • Extensive experience managing the industry-academia research interface from both sides. • Advocate for the integration of applied fundamental research into industrial product development projects. • Proven experience building internationally leading composites research team in academia. • Excellent track record of research funding generation • Successful set up and management of a large Materials Characterisation Laboratory • Internationally recognized communicator, authored >150 papers and conference presentations, Chair of 2004 Gordon Conference on Composites. • Language skills: mother tongue English, bilingual in Dutch, good German, basic French.

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    Exceptionally qualified Composite Materials Scientist with balanced expertise in fibre reinforcements, sizings, surface & interface science, polymer matrices, composite (re)processing-structure-property relationships, micromechanical and molecular modelling

    Extensive experience leading multifunctional, multicultural, global teams developing and commercializing new and novel fibre and polymer composite products.

    Unique international experience in New Product and New Business Development within the Research Departments of major multinational companies.

    Proven experience of driving successful research and development programmes in cross-cultural environment gained in Belgium, the USA, the Netherlands, Germany and the UK.

    Extensive experience managing the industry-academia research interface from both sides.

    Advocate for the integration of applied fundamental research into industrial product development projects.

    Proven experience building internationally leading composites research team in academia.

    Excellent track record of research funding generation

    Successful set up and management of a large Materials Characterisation Laboratory

    Internationally recognized communicator, authored >150 papers and conference presentations, Chair of 2004 Gordon Conference on Composites.

    Language skills: mother tongue English, bilingual in Dutch, good German, basic French.

Publications

Thermoset droplet curing performance in the microbond test
Bryce David, Thomason James L, Yang Liu
Composite Interfaces (2023)
The effect of environmental ageing on the interphase in glass fibre - vinyl ester composites
Thomason James L, Xypolias Georgios
Composite Interfaces Vol 30, pp. 377-391 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1080/09276440.2022.2116842
The influence of fibre cross section shape and fibre surface roughness on composite micromechanics
Thomason James
Micro Vol 3, pp. 353-368 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.3390/micro3010024
Flat glass fibres : the influence of fibre cross section shape on composite micromechanics and composite strength
Thomason James L
Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesa.2023.107503
Hydrothermal ageing of glass fibre reinforced vinyl ester composites : a review
Thomason James, Xypolias Georgios
Polymers Vol 15 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.3390/polym15040835
The dependence of interfacial shear strength on temperature and matrix chemistry in glass fibre epoxy composites
Minty Ross F, Yang Liu, Thomason James L
Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing Vol 164 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compositesa.2022.107303

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The effect of accelerated environmental ageing on the interphase of a glass fibre/vinyl ester composite
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2/9/2021

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Projects

Products from Recycled Glass Fibre at Economic and Sustainable Scale (Progress)
Yang, Liu (Principal Investigator) Bomphray, Iain (Co-investigator) Thomason, James (Co-investigator) Liu, Zhe (Research Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2025
Damage Controlled Composite Materials DaCoMat (H2020 RIA)
Thomason, James (Principal Investigator)
01-Jan-2018 - 31-Jan-2021
Suzlon PhD Project
Thomason, James (Principal Investigator)
01-Jan-2017 - 30-Jan-2021
APESA (H2020 MSCA EID)
MacKenzie, Donald (Principal Investigator) Comlekci, Tugrul (Co-investigator) Dempster, William (Co-investigator) Galloway, Alexander (Co-investigator) Stack, Margaret (Co-investigator) Stickland, Matthew (Co-investigator) Thomason, James (Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2015 - 31-Jan-2019
PPG ACG PhD Support
Thomason, James (Principal Investigator)
01-Jan-2015 - 31-Jan-2017
Doctoral Training Partnership (DTA - University of Strathclyde) | Pender, Kyle
Yang, Liu (Principal Investigator) Thomason, James (Co-investigator) Pender, Kyle (Research Co-investigator)
01-Jan-2014 - 11-Jan-2018

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
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