Prof James Busfield
FREng, MA, PhD, CEng, FIMMM, FHEA
Deputy Head of School and Director of Strategy
Professor of Materials
301A, Engineering, Mile End
| Feedback/ support hours: |
James has in person office hours In Eng 301A every Thursday from 10-11 |
| Expertise: | Examining the physical behaviour by experiment and modelling techniques of polymers and soft matter such as elastomers and rubber materials. Properties of interest include abrasion, friction, fracture, creep, fatigue, viscoelastic behaviour, modulus enhancement, self healing, recycling, ageing and composite filler reinforcement. Developing smart soft materials that can sense their environment and soft actuating materials that can change shape in response to a physical stimulus. |
| Research Centre: | Intelligent Transport |
| Affiliations: |
Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering National Teaching Fellow Fellow of the Higher Education Academy Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining Chartered Engineer Associate Editor of Plastics Rubber Composites: Macromolecular Engineering Associate Editor of Rubber Chemistry and Technology Chairman of the IOM3 Elastomer Group |
Brief Biography
James has been the Head of the Soft Matter Group at Queen Mary University of London since 1994. His research group is currently the largest such group in the UK with a team of 14 postdoctoral researchers and PhD students.
James has been a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering since 2020 and a National Teaching Fellow since 2009. He has been recognised for his work in the materials community by the award of the T B Marsden Professional Medal (by the IOM3, 2024), the George Stafford Whitby Award (by the ACS, 2021), the Colwyn Medal (by the IOM3, 2009) and the Sparks-Thomas Award (by the ACS, 2010).
James has been in a leadership role of the IOM3 Elastomer Group since 1995, with whom he has organised more than 100 discussion meetings and conferences of interest to the rubber community. He was the Chairman of European Conference on Constitutive Modelling of Rubber 2003 (in London), the International Rubber Conference 2019 (in London), RubberCon 2014 (in Manchester) and RubberCon 2023 (in Edinburgh). He will be the Chairman of the next European Conference on Constitutive Modelling of Rubber 2026 (in Oxford).
He is the UK's International Rubber Conference Organisation national representative since 2013. He is the associate editor of "Plastics, Rubber and Composites: Macromolecular Engineering" and "Rubber Chemistry and Technology" and has been on the leadership team of the IOM3 Polymer Group since before 2000.
James previously designed suspension components for an automotive industry supply company, designing systems for companies such as Jaguar, Volvo and Mercedes.
James has been a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering since 2020 and a National Teaching Fellow since 2009. He has been recognised for his work in the materials community by the award of the T B Marsden Professional Medal (by the IOM3, 2024), the George Stafford Whitby Award (by the ACS, 2021), the Colwyn Medal (by the IOM3, 2009) and the Sparks-Thomas Award (by the ACS, 2010).
James has been in a leadership role of the IOM3 Elastomer Group since 1995, with whom he has organised more than 100 discussion meetings and conferences of interest to the rubber community. He was the Chairman of European Conference on Constitutive Modelling of Rubber 2003 (in London), the International Rubber Conference 2019 (in London), RubberCon 2014 (in Manchester) and RubberCon 2023 (in Edinburgh). He will be the Chairman of the next European Conference on Constitutive Modelling of Rubber 2026 (in Oxford).
He is the UK's International Rubber Conference Organisation national representative since 2013. He is the associate editor of "Plastics, Rubber and Composites: Macromolecular Engineering" and "Rubber Chemistry and Technology" and has been on the leadership team of the IOM3 Polymer Group since before 2000.
James previously designed suspension components for an automotive industry supply company, designing systems for companies such as Jaguar, Volvo and Mercedes.