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Michael Shaver
Shaver leads Manchester's Sustainable Futures platform and the Sustainable Materials Innovation Hub, designing polymers that can be broken down by chemical and enzymatic routes. His recent work spans organocatalysed depolymerisation of engineering plastics and directed evolution of depolymerases, connecting fundamental catalysis to industrial plastics circularity and to policy on packaging waste.
Alice Larkin
Larkin works at the interface of climate science and energy policy in Manchester's Tyndall Centre, focusing on aviation and shipping, two sectors that sit awkwardly outside national carbon budgets. Her research argues that operational measures and demand management, not future fuels alone, are needed to align international transport with Paris Agreement goals.
Barry Lennox
Lennox, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, develops robots for environments too hazardous for people, above all nuclear decommissioning sites such as Sellafield and Fukushima. He has led major UK nuclear robotics programmes that moved ground and submersible vehicles from laboratory demonstrations into active facilities, making low cost platforms reliable under extreme radiation.