Name: Dr William James Priddy
How I help the FM SIG achieve its goals:
As Chair, I facilitate open, progressive discussion by the Leadership Committee, offer direction from the benefit of my experience and act as the public face of the SIG
Experience:
Seven years as an academic researcher in experimental fluid mechanics and heat transfer
Thirty years industry employment within an Oil and Gas Major providing the technical stewardship of the development and deployment of flow measurement systems, primarily across the Upstream and Midstream value chains, specialising throughout this period in multiphase flow metering.
Delivering organisational and technology strategy; building support networks; technical practices, engineering specifications and industry standards writing; technology qualification.
Skills:
- Highly curious with strong innate academic leaning and scientific research capabilities
- Leadership and communication
- Experimentation, analysis, creativity and innovation
Name: Dr Katrina Davidson
How I help the FM SIG achieve its goals:
As FMSIG Secretariat, my role is to provide support to the SIG Chair and Leadership Group to meet the ambition of FMSIG. This includes, orchestrating the delivery of our annual plan and organising SIG Leadership Team meetings.
Experience
15+ years as a scientist working in the pharmaceutical, food and energy sectors
5+ years in innovation management, knowledge transfer and strategy development
Skills
- Creative Problem Solving and Design Thinking
- Open Innovation
- Knowledge Transfer
Name: Peter Loftus
How I help the FM SIG achieve its goals:
I am new to the SIG but with a background in measurement for Aerospace and other industry sectors I bring a different perspective and hope to open up additional areas of opportunity.
Experience:
I have 40 years’ experience in a combination of leadership and technical roles in measurement application covering technology, process, regulation, strategy, and skills
Skills:
- Strategy development
- Leadership
- Creative thinking
- Analytical problem solving
- Developing research portfolios
Name: Professor Steve Dixon
How I help the FM SIG achieve its goals:
As an academic research team leader who has extensive experience of working and supporting industry and bridging the gap between research and innovation from the lab, through to product commercialisation, I hope to support the way that we integrate research and industrial collaboration into the group, particularly around engagement between universities and industry.
Experience:
Over 30 years of experience in R&D, having managed and worked on many national and international research projects with numerous companies.
Director of the University of Warwick's Centre for Industrial Ultrasonics, where we have a significant focus on ultrasonic flow measurement.
Technology transfer and lP development and licensing from research through to product development, having founded three companies and overseen IP support and licensing to many others.
Skills:
- Specialist understanding of running and initiating research and innovation projects and building collaborations
- Broad understanding of a range of flow measurement technologies
- Specialist technical expertise in ultrasonics and electromagnetics
Name: Professor Raffaella Ocone
How I help the FMSIG achieve its goals:
Identifying areas where rigorous flow measurements of multi-phase flow are needed. Capitalising on my academic background and industrial experience to strengthen the interactions between Academia and Industry to link science and applications.
Experience
I have 30 year's experience in the area of hydrodynamics of reactive complex systems. I have contributed models and solutions for the process industry aimed at predicting and managing the behaviour of multi-phase multi-scale systems.
Skills
- Mathematical modelling of complex systems
- Rheology of complex systems
- Links between academia and policy makers
- Work with Professional Bodies and Societies
- Science communication
Name: MANUS HENRY
Experience
I am Director of the Advanced Instrumentation Group at the Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford; Professor of Flow Measurement at the Centre for Fluid and Complex Systems, Coventry University; and Head of Laboratory at the Scientific Research Laboratory of Equipment and Systems Self-Validation, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, South Ural State University, Chelyabinsk, Russia.
I am currently Editor-in-Chief of Flow Measurement and Instrumentation Journal.
Skills
- Has over 100 granted patents, mostly in the field of Coriolis mass flow metering
- Signal processing for instrumentation
- Digital metrology
NAME: Dr Chris Mills
How I help the FM SIG achieve its goals:
As a new member of the FM SIG, I hope to bring my experiences at NEL’s flow loops, along with my links to various flow measurement committees including ISO, Energy Institute, EURAMET, and BIPM’s Working Group for Fluid Flow to support the interactions and collaborations between the group.
Experience:
Fifteen years employment at NEL, working in flow measurement in a variety of sectors including energy, food, water and pharmaceutical. I have helped design and operate large scale flow loops and formulated multiple joint industry projects on various flow challenges such as multiphase, high viscosity fluids, pressure effects, fluctuating flow, and sampling.
Skills:
- Expertise with numerous flow measurement sensors
- Communication and knowledge transfer
- Experimentation and analysis
NAME: Mikal Willmott
How I help the FM SIG achieve its goals:
As a Subject Matter Expert of flow measurement in the water industry, I hope to bring practical insights on the need, importance, and benefits of flow measurement.
Experience:
I have sat on several metering steering groups and been the catalyst for a number of metering research projects with various organisations and utilities. I have also served as a Water UK representative on the British Standards Committee which examines metering within closed pipes using velocity and mass methods. I have delivered several papers in the UK and abroad on flow measurement accuracy.
Skills:
- Passionate and enthusiastic supporter of flow measurement.
- Broad understanding of different metering technologies.
- Proactive in bringing groups together to undertake flow measurement research.