Staff
Dr Noreen Thomas MA, PhD, FIMMM, C.Eng
Visiting Fellow in Polymer Science & Technology
Background:
Noreen is a Visiting Fellow in Polymer Science and Technology at the Department of Materials. She retired as Reader in Polymer Science in September 2019. From 2009 she was Programme Director of the MSc Programmes in the Department of Materials. She taught polymer science, industrial polymers, melt rheology and mechanical properties at masters’ level, and general materials’ properties (metals, polymers and ceramics) and materials selection at undergraduate level. Currently, her research is focussed on biodegradable and bio-derived polymers, nanotechnology and nano-fibres. Before joining Loughborough as a lecturer in 2003, she worked in applications development and technical service for a PVC producer, European Vinyls Corporation (now Ineos Chlor Vinyls) and prior to that as a research scientist for ICI. She has an MA and PhD from Cambridge University and was a Junior Research Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford.
Qualifications:
- MA, Materials Science, Cambridge
- PhD, Cambridge
- FIMMM, C.Eng
