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Edward Bentley

Senior Technician/ Electronics Lecturer MSc

"I love it here because I get as part of my job description to chance invent stuff for the University, this is a solar simulator in that it will produce sunlight or the equivalent of sunlight inside the box so you can use it to test solar panels so I invented the idea for this and my colleagues and I sold the idea to a commercial company called feedback and feedback are now manufacturing these"

Watch Edward's profile film to hear more about this experiences working at Northumbria. 

Edward  Bentley

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