Affiliated Lecturer

Academic Division: Energy, Fluids and Turbomachinery

Research group: Energy

Email: mas251@eng.cam.ac.uk

Biography

Dr Miles Stopher is the Director of Admissions and an Affiliated Lecturer in the Department of Engineering, and Acting Senior Tutor for 2023/24 at Fitzwilliam. His research interests include the design of nanostructured materials, from quantum mechanics to thermokinetics, for applications in extreme environments, radiation damage modelling, hydrogen embrittlement, and the engineering and safety of integral and passive small modular reactors. He lectures Nuclear Materials for Part III materials scientists and a similar course for nuclear engineers on the MPhil in Nuclear Energy. Miles supervises Part IA and Part IB Mechanics, Materials and Structures. Prior to his arrival at Cambridge, he worked for Rolls-Royce on the design of the Royal Navy’s Dreadnought-class nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarines.