Dr. Jimmy Campbell | Source | CTO at Plastometrex

Jimmy has an undergraduate degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge (2013). In 2014 he joined the Composites and Coatings Group under the supervision of Professor Bill Clyne and Dr. James Dean. Jimmy has recently completed his PhD, which focused very heavily on the further development of experimental methods and computer models for measuring mechanical properties from indentation data.

One of Jimmy’s greatest successes to date was the identification of a fundamental flaw in an analytical calculation method used extensively in the indentation community. His work highlighted with great clarity the deficiency in this method, and demonstrated (indisputably) that problems of this nature could only be tackled with advanced numerical modelling. Jimmy has since gone on to publish more than 7 high-impact, peer reviewed journal papers during the course of his PhD – the average is approximately 2 – and he has presented his research at several international conferences.

Much of his recent work has involved validation of the Indentation Plastometry methodology – work that subsequently led to the development of a quicker, more reliable methodology that is currently incorporated in the latest SEMPID software packages.