Professor Allan Walton is a reader in the Processing of Magnetic Materials and is the head of the Magnetic Materials Research Group (MMG) at the University of Birmingham.
He has an extensive portfolio of interdisciplinary research projects aligned to the University of Birmingham strategies on advanced materials and related manufacturing processes and has received international recognition for his work on manufacturing and recycling of critical magnetic materials.
He has delivered influential briefings to audiences in the UK, Europe, Japan and the US, which have led to major funding and policy decisions in the areas of critical materials and their future availability for a range of industrial applications.