Dr Kit Windows-Yule is a Turing Fellow, a two-time Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Fellow, a Royal Society Industry Fellow, and an Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering, working jointly with the School of Physics and Astronomy’s Positron Imaging Centre. He is also a Research Ethics Reviewer for the Alan Turing Institute, a role which advises on the ethical implications of work performed by and through the Turing Institute, the UK’s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence, and an Innovate UK Bridge AI Independent Scientific Advisor. His research interests concern the dynamics of particulate, fluid, and multiphase systems, and the development of novel experimental, numerical, and ML/AI methodologies through which these systems can be explored. He works closely with a number of industrial partners in the chemical (Johnson Matthey, FMC), food (Mondelez, Jacobs Douwe Egberts), pharmaceutical (AstraZeneca, GlaxoSmithKline), and other (AWE, IFPEN, Rolls Royce, Unilever) sectors, applying these techniques to solve significant open problems in their respective fields. In his 5 years as Faculty at the University of Birmingham, he has assembled a grant portfolio with a value in excess of £5M, in addition to more than £1M in direct industry funding.
