World Congress on
Biopolymers and Bioplastics
Geoffrey Mitchell
Vice- Director
Polytechnic Institute Leiria
Portugal
Biography
Geoffrey Mitchell is the Vice-Director of the Centre for Rapid and Sustainable Product Development at the Polytechnic Institute Leiria in Portugal. Geoffrey Mitchell carried out his doctoral work at the University of Cambridge in the UK and subsequently held a post-doctoral fellowship at Cambridge and a JSPS Fellowship at Hokkaido University in Japan. Prior to his current position he was Professor of Polymer Physics at the University of Reading, UK and from2005 the founding Director of the Centre for Advanced Microscopy at Reading. His research work bridges physics, biology, chemistry and technology and he is a Fellow of both the Institute of Physics and the Royal Society of Chemistry as well as the Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. Geoffrey Mitchell is passionate about direct digital manufacturing (DDM) which enables products to be manufactured directly froma digital design without the need for specialist tooling or moulds and the development of novel materials to support the emerging technologies. He is fascinated by the opportunities that arise from merging electrospinning in to the family of DDM technologies. He brings a wealth of experience working with polymer based materials both natural and synthetic. He is particularly interested in the scales of structure present in all materials and especially biopolymers. He has developed and made extensive use of x-ray and neutron scattering methods coupled to computational molecular modelling and electron microscopy techniques. He is a Visiting Member of the Medical Physics and Clinical Engineering Department of the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust. He is the editor of a book “Electrospinning; Principles, practice and possibilities†published by the Royal Society of Chemistry in 2015.
Research Interest
He is particularly interested in the scales of structure present in all materials and especially biopolymers. He has developed and made extensive use of x-ray and neutron scattering methods coupled to computational molecular modelling and electron microscopy techniques.