Carl is an Assistant Professor in the school of Metallurgy and Materials at the University of Birmingham, with research interests in rheology, manufacturing, and development of novel metrology.
He was awarded his PhD in 2018 from Durham University, under the supervision of Dr Richard Thompson and Michelin, on experimental polymer rheology. He then moved to Birmingham as a research fellow, first in the School of Chemistry and then Metallurgy and Materials, before starting his current position in October 2023.
He is co-lead of the Energy Materials group, where he leads the development advanced characterisation and metrology to improve the manufacturing of battery electrodes and develop novel manufacturing processes. He is fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and Member of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, Royal Society of Chemistry, and the British Society of Rheology.