About Ingenia

Faith Wainwright has spent much of her career at Arup, where she led multidisciplinary teams on iconic building projects with world-leading architects. She was also instrumental in establishing Arup University. 

She was President of the Institution of Structural Engineers in 2018, served as an industrial member of the civil engineering panels of the RAE2008 and REF2014 research assessment exercises, is a panel member for UKRI’s RED Fund, and a Trustee of the Ove Arup Foundation.

At the Royal Academy of Engineering, Faith has served on the Trustee Board, Membership Panel, Ingenious committee, and the Engineering Policy Centre Committee. She holds an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Bath and is an Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford.

Professor David Delpy originally trained as a physicist and following a short spell in industry, spent 35 years at University College London (UCL) specialising in the development of techniques for the physiological monitoring of patients, especially newborns. He is most well-known for his developments in NIR (near-infrared) spectroscopy and NIR imaging of oxygenation and metabolism in the brain.

After seven years as Research Vice Provost, he left UCL in 2007 to become the Chief Executive of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, stepping down in March 2014. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Medical Photonics UCL, Honorary Treasurer and Council member at the Institute of Physics and a member of the Home Office Science Advisory Council.

Ginny Clarke is Chair of the Rees Jeffreys Road Fund, which aims to foster improvements in the engineering, management, design and use of roads to deliver safer, more environmentally sensitive, more aesthetically pleasing and more enjoyable outcomes. She has worked in local and central government on a variety of road and transport projects specialising in standards for road bridges, network planning and project management. In 2001 she became the Chief Highway Engineer for the Highways Agency, responsible for road standards, safety and research. She was the UK’s First Delegate at the World Roads Association for six years. In 2014, as Strategy Director, Ginny took the lead in developing the first Road Investment Strategy and legislation for the new Highways England company.

Ginny is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. In addition to being on Ingenia’s editorial board, she is a member of the Academy’s Membership Committee and Chair of the Transport and Mechanical Membership Selection Panel.

Professor Yulong Ding is the founding Chamberlain Chair of Chemical Engineering at the University of Birmingham and Director of the Birmingham Centre for Energy Storage.

He invented liquid air energy storage technology and developed composite phase change materials for thermal energy storage. His work on passively cooled container technology has been on large-scale commercial demonstration for cold chain transportation applications. 

He has published over 450 technical papers and filed over 70+ patents.

Professor Ding was awarded the IChemE Clean Energy Medal and the IChemE Global Awards in three categories: energy, research project and outstanding achievement. He also received the Distinguished Energy Storage Individual Award at Beijing International Energy Storage and Expo; Research Chair in cryogenic energy storage from the Royal Academy of Engineering; and Energy and Environment Award and Technology and Innovation Grand Prix Award from The Engineer.

Alex Knight is a Chartered Engineer, and a Fellow of both the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Women’s Engineering Society. After a career of over 15 years in industry, she founded STEMAZING – a social enterprise dedicated to inspiration and inclusion in STEM. Alex is also mentor, trainer, visiting professor, and TEDx speaker. She is a regular keynote speaker at events and schools and has featured on TV shows on Channel 5, Prime and CuriosityStream.

Stuart Nathan has been writing about science, engineering and technology for over 30 years. He completed a degree in chemistry at the University of Nottingham in 1991, after struggling for a year with the maths content of a chemical engineering course and finally admitting defeat. After graduating he translated a hobby into a career by starting as editorial assistant at Chemistry and Industry magazine. His career then took him to Process Engineering magazine, and then to The Engineer, where he stayed for 15 years, nine of those as features editor, before going freelance.

Stuart enjoys reading and writing fiction set in the past and future, and has been an avid fan of fantasy and science fiction films, television and comics for as long as he can remember. Like many chemists, he is a keen cook and baker and makes a mean sourdough loaf. He has never outgrown his love of dinosaurs; his favourite is Alcedo atthis, descended from those that survived the extinction event and better known as the European kingfisher. He also plays in two quiz leagues, sings tenor in a non-religious choir, and can frequently be found haunting art galleries.