| Prof. Brian Derby Manchester Materials Science Centre Topic: (open) |
| Prof. Zhongyun Fan Director of BCAST, Brunel University, Uxbridge Topic: Shear Enhanced Heterogeneous Nucleation during Solidification of Mg Alloys |
| Dr. Nong Gao Materials Research Group, School of Engineering Science, University of Southampton Topic: Processing and Microstructural Development of Ultrafine-grained Aluminium Alloys |
| Prof. Alan Lindsay Greer Department of Materials Science & Metallurgy, University of Cambridge Topic: Improving the Plasticity of Bulk Metallic Glasses |
| Prof. Z. Xiao Guo Department of Materials and Inorganic Chemistry, University College London Topic: (open) |
| Prof. Peter J. Hall Department of Chemical and Process Engineering, University of Strathclyde Topic: New Materials for the Large-Scale Introduction of Li-ion Batteries and Electrochemical Double Layer Capacitors for Energy Storage |
| Prof. Peter D. Lee Director of Postgraduate Studies, Department of Materials Science, Imperial College London Topic: An Experimental and Computational Investigation of the Tortuous Three-dimensional Morphologies of Microporosity and Intermetallics in Al-Si-Cu-Fe Alloys |
| Prof. George Smith Department of Materials, Oxford University Topic: A State-of-the-Art Atom Probe Facility for Materials Characterisation |