Professor Paul Shore - Director 

Paul Shore is Professor of Ultra Precision Technologies, and Head of the Precision Engineering Centre at Cranfield University. He joined Cranfield in 2002, from the SKF Bearing Company in Sweden, where he led the Precision Engineering R&D activity, acting as the Technical Manager for Lidkoping Machine Tools (Sweden's largest machine tool company) and the SKF Technical Development Centre in Gothenburg.

Chris Sansom - Knowledge Transfer Manager 

Dr Chris Sansom joined Cranfield after 20 years experience in the electronics industry with GEC, Marconi, Plessey, Bookham, and Perkin Elmer.Chris has been involved in a range of technologies including semiconductor materials growth, materials assessment, materials processing, materials analysis, and component fabrication and test .  

Professor David Walker - Co-investigator 

David Walker is a Professor at University College London, and an Associate Professor at Glyndwr University, and is based at the OpTIC Technium in North Wales. He formerly directed the Optical Science Laboratory of University College London. After some years developing instrumentation for large telescopes, his more recent research has been in the field of CNC polishing and surface metrology, with particular focus on large optics and extremely large telescopes. He chairs the Form Metrology Special Interest Group of the National Physical Laboratory, which promulgates best practice in measurement technology. David has been involved in the development of machine tools for many years, and is Technical Director of Zeeko Ltd

Xavier Tonnellier - Research Fellow.

Xavier works on a number of projects at the OpTIC site to follow from his PhD studies into precision machining of large freeform optics .

Dr John Mitchell. Research Fellow

An applied physicist with a PhD in optical metrology, Dr Mitchell has experience in modern and applied optics, classical, holographic and speckle interferometry and holography. He is also experienced in mechanical materials testing and analogue and digital electronics and instrumentation. His role within the IKC is as systems engineer developing capabilities for the metrology of large and structured precision surfaces.

Roger Read - Senior Research Design Engineer

Joined the IKC from Cranfield Precision, where his role included design of the BoX machine. As Senior Research Design Engineer he is based at the Cranfield campus and applies his skills to equipment development projects