ProfessorMark Wenman

Mark Wenman joined Imperial College London as the EDF Energy Research Fellow in Nuclear Fuels in Nov 2008. He was made Professor in Nuclear Materials in 2024. He is the Director of the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Nuclear Energy Futures and is a Co-Director of the Centre for Nuclear Engineering at Imperial. He led the "Neu Irr Steels" research programme (EP/P005101/1) on neutron irradiations of reactor pressure vessel steels and was part of the MIDAS programme grant on zirconium alloys. He is currently part of the UKAEA NEURONE consortium for the development of radiation and creep resistant steels for nuclear fusion (2023-2028). Externally Mark is the co-chair of the UK Nuclear Fuels Forum sub group on fuel performance modelling and sits on the Higher Level Skills Group for Nuclear advising government.  Mark was previsouly a Lecturer for the MoD in the Reactor Engineering Group at the Nuclear Department, HMS Sultan in Gosport (2003-2008). Mark has teaching experience in general nuclear engineering and has taught Reactor Dynamics and Materials Science at MSc level. He set-up the MSc in Nuclear Engineering at Imperial College in 2010 and was course director for 3 years. Mark has been involved in several external committees as an independent expert. These include the Technical Advisory Group for Structural Integrity (TAGSI), Core Materials Working Group (Rolls-Royce/MoD), Nuclear Institute working group on defining nuclear professionalism and is also UK academic representative for the Fuels Working Group for the European Jules Horowitz reactor project.

His key research interests are in the field of nuclear engineering materials (specialising in metallurgy) and include micromechanisms of fracture, hydrogen embrittlement and corrosion, irradiation damage and modelling from continuum through to micro and atomic scales. Materials include nuclear fuel, zirconium alloys, stainless steels and ferritic steels.