Biography
Professor Julian Allwood worked for 10 years for Alcoa, prior to developing an academic career, initially at Imperial College, and from 2000 in Cambridge. In parallel with developing new manufacturing technologies for shaping metals, he has built up a research group looking at environmental systems and production. From 2009-13 he held an EPSRC Leadership Fellowship, to explore ‘material efficiency’ – delivering material services with less new material. This led to publication in 2012 of the book “Sustainable Materials: with both eyes open” which can be read online atwww.withbotheyesopen.com.
In 2013 he became director of the UK INDEMAND Centre, one of six national centres looking at energy demand reduction in the UK, with a focus on industry. He also leads the inter-disciplinary BP funded Foreseer programme looking at future resource stress, the NERC funded Hosana project looking at mitigating mineral criticality, the EPSRC funded Precision Guided Flexible Forming project on new metal forming technologies, and is a co-leader of the EPSRC funded WholeSEM project developing national whole-systems energy models for the UK. In total these projects have attracted funding of £18m and employ around 60 people at nine universities, around one third of them working with Julian in Cambridge.
Julian was a Lead Author of the 5th Assessment Report of the IPCC with a focus on mitigating industrial emissions, is chairman of the metal forming section of the International Academy of Production Engineering CIRP, and joint editor-in-chief of theJournal of Materials Processing Technology.
Research
- Material Efficiency
- Metal Forming
- Scenario Analysis of energy and resource futures
Publications
Allwood, J.M. (2014) Squaring the circular economy: the role of recycling within a hierarchy of material management strategies. In Handbook of Recycling, editors M. Reuter and E Worrell, Elsevier, ISBN: 978-0-12-396459-5.
Moynihan, M.C. and Allwood, J.M. (2014), Utilisation of structural steel in buildings,Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 470 no. 2168 20140170
Cooper, D.R., Skelton, A.C.H., Moynihan, M.C. and Allwood, J.M. (2014), Component level strategies for exploiting the lifespan of steel in products, Resources Conservation and Recycling, 84 24-32.
Curmi, E. Richards, K., Fenner, R., Allwood, J.M., Kopec, G.M. and Bajželj, B. (2013), An integrated representation of the services provided by global water resources, Journal of Environmental Management, 129 456-462
Gutowski, T.G., Allwood, J.M., Herrmann, C., Sahni, A. (2013) A global assessment of manufacturing, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 38 81-106.
Bajzelj, B., Allwood, J.M. and Cullen, J.M. (2013) Designing climate change mitigation plans that add up, Environmental Science and Technology, 47(14) 8062-8069.
Milford, R.L., Pauliuk, S., Allwood, J.M. and Müller, D.B. (2013) The Roles of Energy and Material Efficiency in Meeting Steel Industry CO2 Targets, Environmental Science and Technology 47, 3455−3462
Skelton, A.C.H. and Allwood, J.M. (2013) The incentives for material efficiency along the steel sector supply chain: an analysis using input output techniques, Ecological Economics, 89, 33-42.
Skelton, A.C.H. and Allwood, J.M. (2013) Product-life trade-offs: what if products fail early? Environmental Science and Technology, 47(3) 1719-1728.
Cullen, J.M., Allwood, J.M. and Bambach, M. (2012). Mapping the global flow of steel: from steelmaking to end- use goods, Environmental Science and Technology 46(24), 13048-13055.
Carruth, M.A. and Allwood, J.M. (2012) The development of a hot rolling process for variable cross-section I-beams, Journal of Materials Processing Technology 212(8)1640-1653.
Leal-Ayala, D.R. Allwood, J.M., Schmidt, M. and Alexeev, I. (2012) Toner-Print Removal from Paper by Long and Ultrashort Pulsed Lasers, Proc. Royal Soc. A, 468(2144) 2272-2293
Ma, L., Allwood, J.M., Cullen, J.M., Li, Z. (2012) The use of energy in China: tracing the flow of energy from primary source to demand driver, Energy, 40, 174-188.
Allwood, J.M., Ashby, M.F., Gutowski, T.G, Worrell, E. (2011) Material Efficiency: a White Paper, Resources Conservation and Recycling, in press
Cullen, J.M. and Allwood, J.M. (2010) Theoretical efficiency limits in energy conversion devices, Energy 35(5) 2059-2069.
Allwood, J.M., Cullen, J.M. and Milford, R.L. (2010) Options for achieving a 50% cut in industrial carbon emissions by 2050, Environmental Science and Technology, 44(6)1888-1894.
Cullen, J.M. and Allwood, J.M. (2010) The efficient use of energy: tracing the global flow of energy from fuel to service, Energy Policy, 38 75-81
Music, O., Allwood, J.M. and Kawai, K-I, (2010) A Review of the Mechanics of Metal Spinning, Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 210(1), 3-23
Counsell, T.A.M. and Allwood, J.M. (2009) Using solvents to remove a toner-print so that office paper might be reused, Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 465, 3839-3858
Allwood, J.M. and Shouler, D.R. (2009) Generalised forming limit diagrams showing increased forming limits with non-planar stress states, International Journal of Plasticity,25(7) 1207-1230
Jackson, K.P. and Allwood, J.M. (2008) The mechanics of incremental sheet forming,Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 209(3) 1158-1174
Allwood, J.M., Laursen, S.E., Malvido, C., and Bocken, N.M.P. (2007), Well Dressed? The present and future sustainability of clothing and textiles in the United Kingdom. 84 pages. University of Cambridge, ISBN 1-902546-52-0
