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Name
Gareth B. Neighbour
Bio
Gareth B. Neighbour is faculty member of the School of Engineering and Innovation at the Open University. He completed his PhD at the University of Bath on the ‘microstructural processes leading to fracture in nuclear graphite’. He then worked for the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority at their Windscale plant where, amongst other things, he investigated carbon deposition on fuel and crack propagation in graphite fuel sleeves. He then led the internationally recognised Bath Nuclear Materials Group before joining the University of Hull where he had formed the Materials and Process Performance Group and was Deputy Dean for Science. He then joined Oxford Brookes University in June 2011, as Head of Mechanical Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, awarded full professorial status, and then in 2016 appointed inaugural full Professor and Head of School of Engineering and the Built Environment at BCU.
Between 2021-2024, he completed a term as Head of School if Engineering & Innovation at the Open University. Over his research career, he has provided independent research and advice to the nuclear and other heavy industries including the regulator and also the IAEA in Vienna securing significant research income. A significant proportion of Gareth Neighbour’s research is interdisciplinary in nature publishing widely on topics such as Game Theory and Management of Manufacturing Plants involving environmental aspects such as carbon footprints and pyrolysis of materials. However, his main interest remains upon fracture mechanics and fundamental structure-property relationships of engineering carbon materials, particularly materials performance and the functionality of UK gas-cooled nuclear core components to support life extension using various microstructural modelling and analytical techniques.
He has collaborated with a range of national and international organisations as well as providing leadership in the field, for example, since 2010 chairing the UK’s Graphite Core Committee on behalf of EDF Energy and its successor Independent Graphite Validation Group and past Chair of British Carbon Group.
Between 2021-2024, he completed a term as Head of School if Engineering & Innovation at the Open University. Over his research career, he has provided independent research and advice to the nuclear and other heavy industries including the regulator and also the IAEA in Vienna securing significant research income. A significant proportion of Gareth Neighbour’s research is interdisciplinary in nature publishing widely on topics such as Game Theory and Management of Manufacturing Plants involving environmental aspects such as carbon footprints and pyrolysis of materials. However, his main interest remains upon fracture mechanics and fundamental structure-property relationships of engineering carbon materials, particularly materials performance and the functionality of UK gas-cooled nuclear core components to support life extension using various microstructural modelling and analytical techniques.
He has collaborated with a range of national and international organisations as well as providing leadership in the field, for example, since 2010 chairing the UK’s Graphite Core Committee on behalf of EDF Energy and its successor Independent Graphite Validation Group and past Chair of British Carbon Group.
