Incubator Programme

Subsurface Director, Resolute Energy Solutions Ltd.

Emma has worked for 20 years as a geoscientist and reservoir modeller primarily in the oil and gas sector with a variety of service companies, and oil and gas operators. Working in small integrated teams to assess hydrocarbon in-place volumes and remaining reserves, alongside working up reservoir well targets and planning drilling campaigns for field development.

In January 2019 Emma became a full-time member of the Resolute team and now handles the subsurface aspects on all projects. The recent focus of projects in the nuclear sector has provided an exciting challenge and new direction for Resolute.

Managing Director, FIRMA Engineering Ltd

Serving his time as a craft apprentice at the defence giant BAE Systems while studying part time, Alan went on to graduate from the University of Humberside with a BEng (Hons) Degree in 1993, eventually specialising in Mechanical Structural Engineering, designing military airframe structures until 2001.

Since then, Alan has served for many years as an experienced and well-respected engineering consultant particularly within the military and commercial aerospace industries. This has seen him on many occasions appointed to the position of team leader to deliver on numerous high-profile projects, often working with large multinational companies. His areas of expertise include: Finite Element Analysis, Fatigue Analysis, and Crack Growth Analysis.

Alan is a co-founding partner of FIRMA Engineering Ltd, established to address the increasing requirement for high integrity detailed structural design and analysis, particularly within heavily regulated industries such as nuclear and aerospace. FIRMA provide a flexible and open relationship to clients while upholding the core principles of professionalism and high-quality delivery.

Head of Nuclear Engineering, Createc

Will’s career history has spanned all sectors of the nuclear industry, including, generation, decommissioning and research. Will’s primary passion is in the appropriate implementation of relevant innovation in order to make the nuclear industry safer and more efficient. Demonstrating this, Will has previously developed highly innovative remote inspection devices for nuclear generation and decommissioning. Taking similar systems from other verticals, Will developed a suite of inspection tools which are utilised in conducting structural integrity assessments in the heart of operational nuclear reactors. Will developed IP in remote inspection technologies which can be used in the harshest of nuclear environments.

 At Createc, Will provides direction and leadership in nuclear innovation. Will focuses the creative talent at Createc to the problems faced in all aspects of the nuclear industry. Will’s technical capabilities are in machine vision, especially machine vision hardware specifications and integration; software engineering for vision applications; and traditional engineering expertise in mechanical engineering design and electrical control system design for plant operation or safety supervision.

Managing Director Clifton Photonics

Scott completed a Rolls-Royce sponsored PhD in fluorescence imaging in 2014 at the University of Bristol. He went on to work as a Research Assistant, and eventually, a Senior Research Associate at the Interface Analysis Centre, focussing on the development of optical spectroscopy instrumentation.

Scott co-founded Clifton Photonics in 2018 with John Day and Dave Megson-Smith to develop bespoke spectroscopic instruments to solve industrial challenges. Clifton Photonics is developing a range of fibre-optic Raman probes for the detection of organic compounds in pipes and vessels for Sellafield and Dounreay. This novel instrument will enable in-situ measurements in pipes and vessels, reducing the cost of post-operational clean out.

Project Manager, Barrnon Nuclear Limited

Starting in design and engineering over 16 years ago with the aim of taking designs from computer screen to site, Rory was focused initially within oil & gas concentrating on maintaining and increasing the efficiency of aging oil platforms across UK. Using this experience and excited by the problems that nuclear energy caused, he began project managing multiple nuclear decommissioning projects allowing full oversight of the problems and the solutions.

Rory now uses that experience to help manage projects, operations and business development within Barrnon to grow their bespoke engineering solutions business, this includes Design, Engineering, Manufacturing & Robotics to work on some of the worlds most contaminated nuclear sites. 

Senior Lecturer in Digital Electronics at Lancaster University & Senior Systems Engineer at Hybrid Instruments Ltd.

Michael completed his PhD in real time digital assay in 2008 at Lancaster University, then moving to become a Systems Engineer with Hybrid Instruments (a Lancaster spin-out). During this time, he was responsible for developing his research into a commercial product, with the first product offering being available in 2010. Sales of this technology (in the UK, USA, Japan, South Korea, China and India) have enabled world-leading advances in nuclear materials assay and directly resulted in > 10 publications and international partnerships, most notably a 5-year collaboration with the IAEA (2010-2015). Michael has maintained a working relationship with Hybrid Instruments ever since.

In 2015 Michael returned to academia, first as a lecturer at Aston University and then returning to Lancaster in 2017 as a Senior Lecturer. He is now developing a prototype instrument for in-situ, near real-time monitoring of tritium in groundwater for use at the Sellafield site. This novel instrument will hopefully enable cheaper, faster, wider area monitoring of waterborne tritium and provide an understanding of the migration of more significant radiotoxins around nuclear sites.