Professor Sarah Green

Head of School

School: Engineering, Physics and Mathematics

Sarah is a Professor in Materials Engineering and Head of the School of Engineering, Physics and Mathematics in the Faculty of Science and Environment. She has research interests in the sustainable use of materials and materials failure. She has an undergraduate degree in ceramics and glasses from the University of Sheffield, a PhD in materials engineering from the University of Nottingham, and a PGCert(HE) from Durham University. She did her post-doctoral research at the University of Nottingham and was a visiting researcher at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. In 1998 she moved to Durham University to a lectureship in the School of Engineering and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2005. In 2008 she joined the University of Cumbria’s Energy Coast campus project to lead work on the development of new engineering degree programmes to support the West Cumbria nuclear and renewables supply chain. In 2010 she joined the department of Engineering at the University of Lancaster where she held leadership roles including Director of Teaching and Faculty EDI representative. She was promoted to Personal Chair in 2018 and in 2022 was appointed inaugural Head of the Lancaster School of Engineering.

Sarah is a Fellow of IOM3 and the Women’s Engineering Society and holds CEng and CEnv. She is a member of the IOM3 Academic and Professional Formation Committee, is an accreditor for IOM3 CEng degree programmes and Level 3 apprenticeships, and a member of the EngC Professional Recognition Forum. She has held external examinerships for undergraduate programmes at Queen Mary University of London, the University of Huddersfield and the Dyson Institute of Engineering & Technology and currently is external examiner for Swansea University. She is a college member of EPSRC and a review panel member for the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Carnegie Trust.

Sarah has supervised over 60 Masters and PhD projects and has received funding from UKRI, EPSRC, ERDF, Innovate, TSB, Ceres Power, Royal Society, Sir John Fisher Foundation, Fletchers Group, Gilkes & Gordon, Cumbria Recycling, Morgan Matroc, Biomet and De Puy CMW.

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Research Themes and Scholarly Interests

Sustainable use of materials; the materials cycle; materials failure; tribology and wear;

Recent projects

Feasibility of on-site 3D printed housing using recycled demolition waste, InnovateUK, 2025-2027
Identifying sustainable solutions for carpet and textile flooring waste, Carpet Recycling UK and ERDF Centre for Global Eco-Innovation, MRes studentship, 2022-23
Structural Elastomeric Fixings for Railway Applications, PhD studentship, 2021-2024
Materials failure analysis expert witness reports (Smith Jones Solicitors and Fletchers Solicitors Group), 2020-2024
Defining a Draft for a Zero Power Reactor Experiment for Molten Salt Reactors, EPSRC EP/V027239/1, 2021-2023
Northern Power: Making Engineering and Physical Sciences Research a Domain for All in the North of England. ESPRC/UKRI Inclusion Matters EP/S012206/1
Sir John Fisher Foundation, Engineering Outreach Schools’ Liaison Project, 2019-2023
Post-consumer waste streams and the recycling of mattresses, Cumbria Recycling Ltd and ERDF CGE, MSc (Res) studentship, 2018-19
Deformation Behaviour of Woven Fibre Elastomeric Composites, Libyan Government, PhD studentship, 2015-2019
Steel Cell Research, Innovate UK and Ceres Power Ltd, Horsham, Knowledge transfer partnership (KTP), 2014-2018

Key Publications

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Integrated durability behaviour of friction stir welded AA2060 Al–Li joints: wear, corrosion, and UVaFSW benchmarking, El-Zathry, N., Mahamood, R., Woo, W., Green, S., Akinlabi, S. 1 Sep 2026, In: Welding in the World
Interpretable hybrid deep learning model for defect detection and tensile strength classification in ultrasonic vibration-assisted friction stir welding, El-Zathry, N., Mahamood, R., Woo, W., Green, S., Akinlabi, S., Patel, V. 4 Aug 2026, In: Expert Systems with Applications
Comparative evaluation of conventional friction stir welding and ultrasonic vibration-assisted friction stir welding techniques, El-Zathry, N., Mahamood, R., Woo, W., Green, S., Akinlabi, S., Loganathan, N., Patel, V. 1 Dec 2025, In: Journal of Advanced Joining Processes
Multiscale Approach of Investigating the Density of Simulated Fuel for a Zero Power Reactor, Sardar, S., Degueldre, C., Green, S. 20 Sep 2024, In: Journal of Nuclear Engineering
Short life fission products extracted from molten salt reactor fuel for radiopharmaceutical applications., Degueldre, C., Findlay, J., Cheneler, D., Sardar, S., Green, S. 1 Mar 2024, In: Applied Radiation and Isotopes
Grain Secondary Recrystallisation in Advanced Gas Cooled Reactor Fuel Cladding: Characterisation and Modelling, Degueldre, C., Wilbraham, R., Fahy, J., Green, S. 1 Jan 2021, In: Journal of Nuclear Materials
Hybrid and adhesively bonded joints with dissimilar adherends: a critical review, Yousefi Kanani, A., Green, S., Hou, X., Ye, J. 30 Sep 2021, In: Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology
Experimental investigation and Finite Element (FE) analysis of the load-deformation response of PVC fencing structures, Sotayo, A., Green, S., Turvey, G. 1 Jun 2019, In: Structures
Development, Characterisation and Finite Element Modelling of Novel Waste Carpet Composites for Structural Applications, Sotayo, A., Green, S., Turvey, G. 10 May 2018, In: Journal of Cleaner Production
Mechanical properties of reinforced composite materials under uniaxial and planar tension loading regimes measured using a non-contact optical method, Milad, M., Green, S., Ye, J. 15 Oct 2018, In: Composite Structures

Professional Activity

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Membership of committee: Accreditation Imperial College Materials Programmes (External organisation) 2026
Membership of committee: EPSRC Doctoral Focal Awards: Nuclear skills review panel (External organisation) 2026
Membership of committee: Accreditation UCL Institute Materials Discovery Engineering Programmes (External organisation) 2025
Membership of committee: Accreditation Sellafield IPD Scheme (External organisation) 2025
Examination: External examiner, Swansea University JEI programmes 2025
Membership of committee: UKRI Proof of Concept Opportunity (External organisation) 2025
Membership of council: UKRI EPSRC Health Technology Translation Partnership Scheme Panel (External organisation) 2025
Membership of committee: Accreditation BAE Submarines IPD Scheme (External organisation) 2024
Participating in a conference, workshop, ...: 10th International Conference on Nuclear and Radiochemistry 2024
Visiting an external academic institution: Lancaster University 2024