Professor Paul Beasley
Department of Automatic Control and Systems Engineering
Honorary Professor
- Profile
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Professor Paul Beasley is Head of Research and Development UK at Siemens based in Oxford, with responsibility for managing and developing their internal and external innovation networks in the UK. In his role, Paul identifies innovation opportunities in-line with the Company’s diverse business sectors by supporting global collaborations and managing the university engagement strategy. Paul has been with Siemens for over 20 years where he has also been awarded Principal Innovator status. Prior to his current role he has been Head of Strategic Development, for Siemens UK Technology Group, responsible for identifying and evaluating disruptive innovation technologies and concepts for the future Company portfolio. In 1999, he joined Oxford Magnet Technology from Oxford Instruments, initially heading the Magnet Design and Applications Team and then was appointed Deputy Engineering Director/Strategic Development Manager when Siemens acquired the business.
- Qualifications
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B.Sc. (Hons.) Class 1. Physics.
Final Year Project – ‘Thermal boundary resistance in liquid Helium II’.Ph.D. – ‘Positron studies of the annealing processes in Nickel and Gold’.
- Research interests
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Professor Beasley has over 52 papers and patents the most recent being the below:
Radionuclide Production Using A Compact, Low-Energy Accelerator System
W D. Webster, G T. Parks, D Titov, P Beasley, O Heid
8th International Conference on Isotopes 2014, Chicago
Ammonia Energy Vector
Patents pending
Ammonia and Hydrogen in Combustion, Laminar Studies
Pugh DG, Valera-Medina A, Marsh R, Crayford A, Bowen P,, Beasley P, Hughes T
7th International Conference on Applied Energy, 2015
The UK Science Budget
Evidence to The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee 2015
Open Data and Living Labs: Paul Beasley of Siemens talks about unique partnership opportunities at UK Universities
Panel Moderator for the University-Industry Development Programme Summit
Collaboration metric panel, Oxford 2019
- Professional activities and memberships
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1988 Elected Member of the Institute of Physics [MInstP]
- Elected Chartered Physicist [CPhys]
- Elected Member of the European Physical Society
2011 Industrial Affiliate John Adams Institute, University of Oxford
2011 Non-core Member of the Science and Technology Facilities Council Science Board
2012 Member of the Institute of Physics Particle Accelerator & Beams Committee
2012 Member of the Science and Technology Facilities Council CLASP Committee
2012 Member of the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing, Intelligent Automation advisory board
2012 Member of the EPSRC Peer Review College
2012 Executive Board member of the UK Regenerative Medicine Board
2013 Member of the EPSRC Strategic Advisory Network
2013 CBI Inter-Company Academic Relations Group
2013 Visiting Professorship at the University of Huddersfield, Particle Accelerator Group
2014 Member of the Newcastle Institute for Research on Sustainability Advisory Committee
2014 Member of the UK Parliamentary & Science Committee
2014 Visiting Professorship at the University of Sheffield
2014 Elected Member of the Institute for Engineering & Technology [MIET]
2015 Member of the Science and Technology Facilities Council Innovation Board
2015 Elected Chartered Engineer [CEng]
2015 Member of CBI International Innovation working group
2016 Project Flexis Industrial Advisory Board
2016 Member of the Welsh Assembly Smart Living Technical Group
2018 Visiting Professorship at the University of Huddersfield, Research and Enterprise
2018 Member of Oxford Local Enterprise Partnership – Innovation Board
2018 Member of Royal Institution Industrial Advisory Board