As an MTC Manufacturing Futures Fellow, Dr Garrick splits his time between the University of Birmingham and the Manufacturing Technology Centre catapult. He is actively seeking PhD students in the field of sustainable manufacturing, and is open to approach if you have a project idea you’d like to investigate.
Dr Garrick started his research career with a PhD developing a novel manufacturing process for resource efficient sheet metal at the University of Strathclyde. The resulting rolling process was able to produce “Isogrid” with double the mass efficiency of flat sheet materials much faster than conventional machining methods. He then did a postdoc with the same university looking into potential new designs of high pressure hydrogen storage vessels.
He moved to the University of Cambridge to work in the “Use Less” group, focused on increasing the resource efficiency of the UK’s foundation industries. During this time he focused more on the operational aspects of manufacturing science, modelling the deployment of UK energy infrastructure with a factory analogy and discrete event simulation (DES). Having modelled the initial stages of infrastructure lifespans, he is now working on applying the DES approach to problems within the circular economy, marrying his technical background with whole lifecycle analysis.
Dr Garrick has a track record of developing new approaches to tackle problems in sustainability. He is an associate of both the Birmingham Institute for Sustainability and Climate Action (BISCA) and the Energy Policy Research Group (EPRG) based in the Judge Business School.
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