Professor James Njuguna
| Biography | Professor James Njuguna is the Associate Dean for Research & Knowledge Exchange, and Professor of Composite Materials at RGU. He is also the Lead for Integrated Energy Programme at the National Subsea Centre (NSC). He is a Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh (FRSE) and Fellow of The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM) He was instrumental to securing and delivering the biggest strategic research unit into the University, the £40 million investment National Subsea Centre, as the University Academic Lead working with many other stakeholders in planning and establishment of the NSC and finally securing its future at RGU. Prof Njuguna's research is focused on experimental research on composite materials reinforcement, toughness, materials design and selection; and structural-property relationship. Structural composites research is focused on new products design and industrial applications such as engineering design, evaluation of composites integrity and durability evaluation primary structural applications in extreme harsh conditions such as high temperature, high pressure, shock and impact resistance. Research on integrated energy focus on system integration for energy mix, hydrogen storage systems, knowledge transfer, technology road mapping and maximising energy assets lifespan. A side stream of his research is a focus on exploiting materials failure behaviour to investigate emission/diffusion/release of nanofillers from polymer fibre-reinforced nanocomposites which contributes to research on their durability and on furthering NanoSafety of nanomaterials to human and environmental health. He has delivered over >90 engineering research projects (small-large scale) worth >£22m funding; with in-kind and equipment support worth over >£10m (as Principal Investigator for 70% of them). He has developed several commercialised solutions and products plus published widely in composites, nanocomposites and structural integrity issues specifically focusing on damage, failure analysis, vibration, impact and crash performance in real life products and system applications. |
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| Research Interests | Composite Materials Offshore Materials Automotive Materials Polymer Nanocomposites Structural Materials Safety Materials and Structures Impact and Ballistic resistance performance New Products Development |
| Teaching and Learning | Engineering Product Design Finite Element Analysis Causal Chain Analyis Learning from Engineering Design Failure Composite Materials Material and Manufacturing |
| ResearcherID | A-9486-2010 |
| Scopus Author ID | 6602342165 |