Philip Breedon

Background

About Philip Breedon

Philip Breedon is Professor of Smart Technologies at Nottingham Trent University, and he is also a Chartered Engineer and a Chartered IT professional. Philip is the NTU lead for membership of the UK-Robotics and Autonomous Systems (UKRAS) network and is a member of the UK’s Department of Health National Institute for Health Research invention for innovation funding panel (NIHR i4i) and the Royal College of Surgeons MSK Robotic and Digital Surgery Subgroup. He holds a number of journal editorial positions and is a Royal Academy of Engineering Mentor. His research interests and latest projects centre on new and emerging technologies and materials. This includes wearable technologies, 3D/4D printing, additive and subtractive manufacturing, rehabilitation technology, industrial and surgical robotics, cardiovascular devices, extended reality technologies and environments, the surgical pathway and investigative research related to the utilisation of ‘smart materials’ for medical applications. As a PI and Co-I he and a multidisciplinary research team have recently delivered a number of funded projects at a value of over £3M. Through promoting his work and research activities he now works with a number of surgeons and clinicians across Europe and has given keynote lectures at international conferences. He was invited, and consequently visited six NASA centres across the USA to discuss potential collaborative research opportunities and to examine the latest materials and technology research and its applications; more recently this included the NASA Glenn Research Center.