Alan Roberts, PhD Emeritus Professor, Centre for Bulk Solids & Particulate Technologies, The University of Newcastle

Alan Roberts is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Newcastle Australia.  He has a PhD plus two honorary doctorates and is the recipient of a number of prestigious awards for his work in Bulk Solids Handling.  He has been involved in research and consulting in the field of bulk solids handling for a period of over 45 years.  He established the TUNRA Bulk Solids Handling Research and consulting group of the University of Newcastle in 1975.  In the 33 years of its existence, this group has completed some 2500 projects for approximately 1000 companies in Australia as well as in 40 other countries world wide.   The group is now averaging around 160 industrial projects per year.

Craig Wheeler, PhD, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Bulk Solids & Particulate Technologies, The University of Newcastle

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Mark Jones PhD, Head of Engineering, Director, Centre for Bulk Solids and Particulate Technologies, University of Newcastle

Professor Mark Jones is Head of the School of Engineering, Director of the Key Centre for Bulk Solids and Particulate Technologies and Director of TUNRA Bulk Solids at the University of Newcastle.  After qualifying as a Chartered Mechanical Engineer in the UK he worked as a Research and Development Engineer for Lucas CAV Ltd in London.  He was awarded a PhD from the University of Greenwich, London while working with the UK Department of Industry on a Design Guide for Pneumatic Conveying followed by 11 years as a Senior Consulting Engineer at the Centre for Industrial Bulk Solids Handling, Glasgow.  His research interests span the broad area of Bulk Materials Handling and he specialises in pipeline transport.  He has worked with many multi-national companies in the US, Europe, South America, India, China, Russia and South Africa.  He has been a Member of Council of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE), London and Chairman of the UK National Bulk Material Handling Committee. He is currently Honorary Secretary of the Australian Society for Bulk Solids Handling and a member of the Board of the Cooperative Research Centre for Integrated Engineering Asset Management. His current research interests include severe wear mechanisms in pneumatic pipelines, modelling of transient effects in pneumatic conveyor design and fluidization and air retention characteristics of particulate solids.