Julian Allwood

Julian Allwood is a British academic and engineer born in July 1965, known for his work on climate mitigation and metal forming. He is professor of engineering and the environment in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge and a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. He graduated in engineering at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in 1987 and earned a PhD at Imperial College London in 1993 on the online modelling and control of shape in metal rolling. He then spent ten years at Alcoa before starting an academic career at Imperial College and moving to Cambridge in 2000, where he developed new metal manufacturing technologies and set up an environmental systems and production research group. He leads the Use Less Group, is principal investigator of UK FIRES, was a lead author for the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report on mitigating industrial emissions, wrote the 2019 report Absolute Zero, and received the 2021 International Prize for Research and Development in Precision Forging.