Professor David Sheel
Professor
- Cockcroft Building Room 109
- T: +44 (0)161 295 3711
- M: +44(0)7810 708 984
- E: d.w.sheel@salford.ac.uk
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Office Times
Core times in office:
Tuesday 8.00am – 10.00am
Thursday 8.00am – 10.00am
Biography
I joined the Materials Institute at the University of Salford, from Industry, as a research professor in 2000. Prior to this I spent a number of years working in R&D in a wide range of businesses with a particular focus in the coatings area, and specialising in atmospheric pressure (thermal) CVD (APCVD). To date, at the University of Salford, I have been awarded four EPSRC funded programmes, five EU funded projects, and have also been awarded 5 Industrial CASE funded PhDs all in the CVD area, In the last five years I have published over 40 papers, submitted 6 patents, and given many invited talks. I am a member of the CEC "expert list" for evaluation of large project proposals. I am a founder Board member of EJIPAC (European Japanese Initiative in Photocatalysis Applications and Commercialisation). I hold a number of industrial consultancies, in the field of CVD, with major international companies. In 2011 I led a successful bid for a Wolfson Award to completely refurbish and upgrade the CVD reserach laboratories (total project cost ~400K). Together with Prof Pemble (now at NMRC, Cork) in 2000, I established a spin-out company from the University of Salford, CVD Technologies Ltd, aimed at the exploitation of state-of-the-art CVD technology, consultancy and new product concepts in the field of CVD. The company has established an international reputation, and has internationally leading technology, reflected in the fact that over 90% of the company sales derive from outside the UK. This has recently been re-enforced by the signing of several strategic licensing agreements allowing major international companies to use CVD Technologies Ltd technology.
Research Interests
- CVD
- Coatings
- Thin Films
- Optical coatings
- Photovoltaics
- Design of CVD coating equipment
Qualifications and Memberships
BSc Hons Chemistry and Business Studies Joint Hons (from the University of Liverpool).
1980
PhD Thin Films (from the University of Liverpool).
Full Member of TC24 International Technical Committee Coatings on Glass (June 2006).
Member of TC24 committee contributing to co-ordinating International (US/Japan and European members) standards for testing coatings on Glass. From 2006 and ongoing as of 2010
CIMTEC Italy, Member of the International advisory committee
ICCG Germany, Organising Committee member ICCG (International Conference Coatings on Glass
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