DecarboN8 role: Research Programme
Job title: Professor of Nuclear Engineering
Organisation: University of Liverpool
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Karl Whittle completed his PhD in Inorganic/Materials Chemistry at the Open University in 1998. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Universities of Bristol, Cambridge and Sheffield, prior to working for five years at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation investigating the impacts arising from radiation damage on nuclear materials, and how they can be designed out.
In 2012 he moved back to the UK to the University of Sheffield, teaching and researching into nuclear energy and how it develops, researching across a range of topics, from gas bubble formation in materials, through to coatings to enhance the safety of nuclear fuel cladding.
In 2015 he moved the University of Liverpool, as Professor of Nuclear Engineering continuing to develop research into nuclear materials across a range of nuclear, and decommissioning/decontamination of nuclear facilities.