Materials and Processes

Dr. Dipa Roy joined School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, in January 2017 as Lecturer in Composite Materials and Processing.

She obtained her B.Sc degree (Chemistry Honours), B.Tech and M.Tech degree in Polymer Science and Technology from University of Calcutta, India. She completed her PhD from Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science (IACS), Jadavpur University, India, in 2002. Between 2003 and 2005 she worked as Research Associate with Government of India fellowship at IACS.

She started her job as Lecturer in the Department of Polymer Science and Technology, University of Calcutta in 2005 and continued in that position till September 2011. She received Young Scientist Award from the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India, in 2006 and Career Award for Young Teachers from All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Government of India, in 2007. She successfully completed seven Government of India funded research projects as Principal Investigator during this tenure. In 2011 she joined Irish Centre for Composites Research (IComp) at University of Limerick, Ireland, as Research Fellow (2011-2016). At IComp she conducted industry focused research in the area of polymer composites.

In her career, she has published over 80 peer reviewed journal papers and 14 book chapters. She has edited a book on biocomposites with Elsevier. She has an EU patent on Dielectric heating of polymers in 2016.

She is currently supervising 3 PhD students as the Principal Supervisor, 4 PhD students as Co-Supervisor and 3 Post Doctoral researchers at the University of Edinburgh.

She is the Fellow of the Institute of Materials, MInerals and Mining (IOM3).

Dr Dipa Roy is the recipient of “The 2021 Top 50 Women in Engineering: Engineering Heroes (WE50)” award in 2021.

• Fellow of the Institute of Materials, MInerals and Mining (IOM3).FIMMM
• Member of Society for Advancement of Materials and Process Engineering (SAMPE)
• Member of The Society for Polymer Science, India
• Member of Indian Physical Society

I am a Reader in Mechanical Engineering at The University of Edinburgh, UK. My activities and interests are in the fields of biomimetic design, mechanical metamaterials, comparative biomechanics, and composites engineering.

Fellowships:

Fellowship of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, UK (Elected 2020)

Fellowship of the Royal Society of Biology, UK (Elected 2019)

Senior Fellowship: Marie Curie Very-Experienced Researcher (IAPP/MER), The University of Edinburgh, UK (2016-2018)

Fellowship of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, UK (Elected 2015)

Other Appointments:

Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Biology, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia

Adjunct Professor of Composite Materials and Biostructures, AAU, Finland

Chair: Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining - Natural Materials Group

Committee Member: Institute of Mechanical Engineers - Edinburgh and SE Scotland

2017: Professional Certificate: Innovation and Technology - Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

2013: Docent, Habilitation - Abo Akademi University, FINLAND

2004: Doctor of Philosophy: The reinforcement of timber for structural applications and repair - University of Bath, UK

2000: Bachelor of Engineering (Honours): Materials Science and Engineering - University of Bath, UK

Fellow: Institution of Mechanical Engineers, UK

Fellow: Royal Society of Biology, UK

Fellow: Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, UK

Board Member: Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining, UK - Natural Materials Association

Chartered Engineer: Engineering Council, UK

Member: Suomendosenttiliito (Association for Adjunct Professors in Finland)

Mechanical Engineering Group Project 4

Sustainable Energy Design Project 3

Mechanical Engineering Design 2A

BEng Theses (Year 4)

Group Projects (Year 4)

MSc Theses (Year 5)

Eleonora Ricci joined the University of Edinburgh as a Lecturer in 2023. Previously, she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow at the National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, Athens, Greece. In 2021 she was a postdoctoral researcher and Adjunct Professor of Molecular Simulation Fundamentals at the university of Bologna. She obtained a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy (2020).

• PhD in Chemical Engineering, 2020, University of Bologna, Italy.
• Master's Degree in Chemical and Process Engineering, 2016, University of Bologna, Italy.
• Bachelor's Degree in Chemical and Biochemical Engineering, 2014, University of Bologna, Italy.