Dr Kerry Kirwan is an Associate Professor at WMG, University of Warwick. He is Strategic Director of the £10m Industrial Doctorate Centre and Deputy Head of the Materials and Manufacturing Theme Group within WMG. He is a specialist in sustainable materials, polymer processing and automotive applications, having graduated from Warwick’s Engineering Doctorate (EngD) programme in 2003.  He specialises in environmentally friendly materials for application within numerous industries, previously being awarded a £1.3m WIMRC grant for “Wealth out of Waste”, a highly multidisciplinary programme aiming to develop a truly novel bioreactor system that utilises waste agricultural products and biological systems to create high value products such as pharmaceuticals, fine chemicals, plastics etc. He has also received a prestigious £1m Challenging Engineering grant from EPSRC for his Sustainable Materials - A Global Challenge programme. Dr Kirwan has regularly engaged in public science activities through his position within WMG, being previously recognised for “EcoOne” - the environmentally friendly racing car and his biodegradable “Sunflower Phone” that allowed mobile phone users to grow plants from their discarded mobile phone cases. Most recently he was Principle Investigator on the WorldF3rst Formula 3 racing concept, which demonstrated that “green is sexy” by delivering a fully functional F3 racing car built almost entirely from waste and recycled materials and fuelled by biodiesel derived from waste food products such as chocolate, beef fat and residues from the cheese industry. This car was named in Time Magazine’s Top 50 Global Inventions of 2009 and was showcased at various industry and academic events such as Goodwood Festival of Speed, the British and European Grand Prix’s and MIT’s Global Energy Conference. Dr Kirwan was awarded the Isambard Kingdom Brunel Award by the British Science Association in 2009 and the IOM3 Thornton Gold Medal in 2011 as a result of this project.