Professor Clive Siviour Receives Award from Society for Experimental Mechanics

Professor Clive Siviour, Tutor in Engineering Science at Pembroke, has received the 2016 JSA Young Investigator Lecturer award from the Society of Experimental Mechanics (SEM) for ‘outstanding early-career contributions to experimental mechanics’.

The annual SEM Conference will be held in Orlando in June 2016, where Professor Siviour will receive a plaque and give a keynote lecture entitled Techniques for High Rate Properties of Polymers.

Professor Siviour commented: ‘I was delighted to be told that I had been selected for this award, particularly as I have found the SEM to be a particularly supportive and intellectually stimulating community. Scientific research is always a collaborative activity, and I am fortunate to have worked with supportive colleagues and very able students and post-docs, without whom much of my research would not have been possible.’  

Professor Siviour joined the Department of Engineering Science at the University of Oxford in 2005, initially as a Career Development Fellow, before taking up an Associate Professorship in 2008. His main interest is characterisation of materials under dynamic loading, in particular the use of time-temperature superposition to validate and replicate the response of polymers to high rate deformation using quasi-static experiments, and deriving and interpreting quantitative measurements from high -speed photography.