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Business Fellows Network

Introduction

The Connected Places Catapult Business Fellows Network is a network of experts joint funded by the Connected Places Catapult and participating academic institutions with strong records in transport research and innovation across the UK.

The aim is to bring university outputs closer to commercialisation and enable academics to increase their industry engagement, entrepreneurship and research impact as well as creating commercial and CR&D opportunities between the Connected Places Catapult, universities and industry.

Meets our Business Fellows

Fellows have joined from 11 academic institutes including the Universities of Lancaster, Leeds, Nottingham, Surrey, Liverpool, Northampton, Hertfordshire and Kent, Manchester Metropolitan, Cranfield and Newcastle universities.

You can learn more about these fellows in the following biographies. Alternatively you can download our brochure here or contact Julia Brady for more information.

Simon Barnes

Organisation: University of Kent
Expertise: Technology, Business Cases, Integration

Dr Richard Barrett

Organisation: University of Liverpool
Expertise: Customer Insight, Design and Perceived Quality, Consumer Information and Design

Dr Keith Bevis

Organisation: University of Kent
Expertise: Innovation, Electric Vehicles, Mobility as a Service

Dr Richard Bowden

Organisation: University of Surrey
Expertise: AV Decision Maker, Powertrain, 5G testbed for Commercial Vehicles

Soufiene Djahel

Organisation: Manchester Metropolitan University
Expertise: Intelligent Transport Systems, Connected & Autonomous Vehicles, Internet of Things

Paul Evans

Organisation: University of Leeds
Expertise: Data, Urban, Mobility

Liam Fassim

Organisation: University of Northampton
Expertise: Machine Learning, Connected Logistics, people Behaviour

Dr Stefano Longo

Organisation: Cranfield University
Expertise: Transport, Optimisation, Automation

Elizabeth Mullis

Organisation: Lancaster University
Expertise: Logistics, Decarbonisation, Hydrogen

Ben Nichols

Organisation: University of Nottingham
Expertise: Transport, Mobility, Cities

Dr Erik Thomasson

Organisation: University of Leeds
Expertise: Collaboration, Co-design, Virtuocity

Tom Zunder

Organisation: Newcastle University
Expertise: Freight, Sustainability, Urban

Academic Alliance Fellows

Academic Alliance Fellows are representatives from universities with whom we have a Deep Academic Alliance

Dr Bani Anvari

Organisation: University College London
Expertise: Autonomous Vehicles, Traffic Modelling, V2V Infrastructure

Dr Nikolaos Venetsaneas

Organisation: University of Birmingham
Expertise: Energy Infrastructure, Knowledge Exchange, Impact Acceleration

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