Tom joined TWI in 2007 working in the manufacturing support group before moving to the electron beam (EB) section in 2012 as a Senior Project Leader, where he has been developing electron beam technology. Tom is the technical lead for development and deployment of EB texturing and Surfi-Sculpt® technology. He has coordinated and been involved in many UK national and European collaborative projects, mostly recently on Surfi-Sculpt for heat exchange and bone-to-metal joining in orthopaedic application. In 2018, Tom was promoted to Principal Project Leader. More recently, Tom has led large multi-partner projects involving novel developments of EB wire-fed additive manufacturing process and the application of out-vacuum-chamber EB welding.
Tom was awarded an Engineering Doctorate on the topic of Surfi-Sculpt through the University of Warwick in 2020.