Dr. Simon Middleburgh was appointed Senior Lecturer at the Nuclear Futures Institute in March 2018. His research is focused on developing new nuclear materials, investigating material behaviour in extreme environments (including nuclear and aerospace) and combining materials modelling techniques with experimental methods. Simon is a member of the BWR Hub steering group, encouraging research into boiling water reactors and has represented industry in a number of expert panel groups including: the IAEA ACTOF group tasked with investigating accident tolerant fuels and SCIP III (the Studsvik cladding integrity project). Simon has been part of international research collaborations including NEUP-DOE projects in the USA, MUZIC (a collaborative project investigating corrosion and hydrogen pickup mechanisms in zirconium alloys) and CARAT (consortium of academic researchers investigating accident tolerant fuels). Simon has been on the nuclear advisory committee at the Centre of Nuclear Engineering at Imperial College London and has had visiting academic positions at Imperial College London and KTH, Stockholm during his time working in industry.