Professor Nick Green

Professor Nick Green

School of Metallurgy and Materials
Director of the High Temperature Research Centre
Professor of Manufacturing Technology

Contact details

Telephone
+44 (0) 24 7664 7456
Email
n.r.green@bham.ac.uk
Address
High Temperature Research Centre (HTRC)
Unit 2 Airfield Drive
Ansty Business Park
Coventry
CV7 9BF
UK

Nick Green is a Professor in Manufacturing Technology and received his PhD in Metallurgy from the University of Cambridge. His career has shifted several times between industry and academia, settling in academia since 2015 when he returned to the University of Birmingham as Founding Director of the High Temperature Research Centre and Professor of Manufacturing Technology. 

Nick's research interests lie in solidification and shape casting, but the title of his Chair at the University of Birmingham is very appropriate - as there are many enabling technologies that are equally important to manufacturing high integrity and high performance castings.  Nick's research group has ongoing work which spans; (i) fundamental characterisation of materials, (ii) solidification science, (iii) computational process modelling, (iv) experimental research and process development across the Technology and Manufacturing Readiness Levels. 

As the Principal Academic Investigator on the ARCANE Prosperity Partnership, Nick is keen to collaborate with some of the UK’s leading researchers in their fields, both academic and industry.  We are fortunate that the UK has available such a pool of talent, and the funding from Rolls-Royce plc and EPSRC on the ARCANE Prosperity Partnership allows Nick and his research group to take on such a grand challenge.

Qualifications

  • PhD, Metallurgy, the University of Cambridge (1993)
  • BSc (Class I) (Hons.) (CNAA), City of London Polytechnic (1988)

Biography

Prior to his appointment, Professor Green established and led the Group Technical Centre for Doncaster's Ltd. The Centre, staffed by a team drawn from a range of industrial and academic backgrounds, worked to develop, validate and deploy improved material and manufacturing process modelling tools across a range of technologies with an emphasis on shape casting whilst also providing support directly to the Group plants. 

From 2005 to 2011 Professor Green was Professor of Casting Technology and Director of the Casting Partnership with Rolls-Royce located at the University. His Research Group's interest extended across a wide range of engineering alloy systems and casting technologies. Prior industrial experience includes Technical Director of Cosworth Technology Ltd (2000-2005), Group Competence Leader for VAW (1998-2000) and Technical Manager of VAW motorcast Ltd.

On completion of his PhD, Nick worked as a Research Fellow (1992-1994) and Senior Research Fellow (1994-1996) at The University of Birmingham.

Research

Nick is Director of the High Temperature Research Centre and Professor of Manufacturing Technology . Appointed to the position in April 2015, he has led the establishment and start-up of the High Temperature Research Centre. He is presently leading major research projects that encompass materials characterisation, advanced casting process modelling and manufacturing technologies for future generation aero engine turbine components.

Publications

Selected publications

C Reilly, NR Green, MR Jolly, The present state of modeling entrainment defects in the shape casting process, Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2013, 37 (3), 611-628.

NJ Humphreys, D McBride, DM Shevchenko, TN Croft, P Withey, NR Green, M. CrossModelling and validation: Casting of Al and TiAl alloys in gravity and centrifugal casting processes, Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2013, 37 (14-15), 7633-7643.

YZ Zhou, A Volek, NR Green, Mechanism of competitive grain growth in directional solidification of a nickel-base superalloy, Acta Materialia, 2008, 56 (11), 2631-2637.

NR Green, J Campbell, Statistical distributions of fracture strengths of cast Al-7Si-Mg alloy, Materials Science and Engineering: A, 1993, 173 (1-2), 261-266.

C Nayhumwa, NR Green, J Campbell, Influence of casting technique and hot isostatic pressing on the fatigue of an Al-7Si-Mg alloy, Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A, 2001, 32, 349-358.

Expertise

Expertise in high volume and high value manufacturing, in both the automotive and aerospace foundry industries. Leads a major research facility established in partnership with Rolls-Royce Plc.

Policy experience

Expertise in high volume and high value manufacturing, in both the automotive and aerospace foundry industries. Leads a major research facility established in partnership with Rolls-Royce Plc.