Mark studied Engineering at Cambridge from 1987-1990, specialising in electrical engineering and gained a BA (Hons) “Electrical and Information Tripos” After two more years with British gas in advanced controls, Mark moved to the IRC in Materials Processing at the University of Birmingham in summer 1992 to undertake research on a state-of-the-art facility for making titanium and other alloys. While working on Plasma Arc Furnace, he undertook a part-time PhD “Sensing and controlling the Plasma Arc Cold-Hearth Refining process”.

Turner, R, Villa, M, Sovani, Y, Panwisawas, C, Perumal, B, Ward, R, Brooks, J & Basoalto, H 2016, 'An improved method of capturing the surface boundary of a Ti-6Al-4V fusion weld bead for finite element modeling' Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, vol 47, no. 1, pp. 485-494., 10.1007/s11663-015-0489-5 Schroeder, F, Ward, R, Turner, R, Walpole, AR, Attallah, M, Gebelin, J-C & Reed, R 2015, 'Validation of a Model of Linear Friction Welding of Ti6Al4V by Considering Welds of Different Sizes' Metallurgical and Materials Transactions B, vol 46, no. 5, pp. 2326-2331., 10.1007/s11663-015-0396-9 Qiu, C, Panwisawas, C, Ward, R, Basoalto, H, Brooks, J & Attallah, M 2015, 'On the role of melt flow into the surface structure and porosity development during selective laser melting' Acta Materialia, vol 96, pp. 72-79., 10.1016/j.actamat.2015.06.004 Qiu, C, Yue, S, Adkins, NJ, Ward, R, Hassanin, H, Lee, PD, Withers, PJ & Attallah, MM 2015, 'Influence of processing conditions on strut structure and compressive properties of cellular lattice structures fabricated by selective laser melting' Materials Science and Engineering A, vol 628, pp. 188-197., 10.1016/j.msea.2015.01.031 Schroeder, F, Ward, R, Walpole, AR, Turner, R, Attallah, M, Gebelin, J-C & Reed, R 2015, 'Linear friction welding of Ti6Al4V: experiments and modelling' Materials Science and Technology, vol 31, no. 3, pp. 372-384., 10.1179/1743284714Y.0000000575 Li, W, Vairis, A & Ward, R 2014, 'Advances in friction welding' Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, vol 2014, 204515, pp. 1-1., 10.1155/2014/204515 Turner, R, Schroeder, F, Ward, R & Brooks, J 2014, 'The Importance of Materials Data and Modelling Parameters in an FE Simulation of Linear Friction Welding' Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, vol 2014, 521937., 10.1155/2014/521937 Turner, R, Huang, J, Ward, M, Villa, M & Reed, R 2013, 'On the Modelling of a Pulsed TIG Weld process in a Nickel Superalloy' Materials Science Forum, vol 762, pp. 531-537., 10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.762.531 Abolghasemi, S, Williamson, J, Lindley, TC, Ward, M & Lee, PD 2013, 'Thermal imaging and stress analysis for predicting the behaviour and long-term performance of flare tips' Journal of Strain Analysis, vol 48, no. 2, pp. 103-111. A Multi-Scale 3D Model of the Vacuum Arc Remelting Process, Koulis Pericleous, Georgi Djambazov, Mark Ward, Lang Yuan, Peter D. Lee , Accepted for publication in Met. Trans. A S. Abolghasemi, J. Williamson, T. C. Lindley, R. M. Ward and P. D. Lee, 2013, "Thermal imaging and stress analysis for predicting the behaviour and long-term performance of flare tips", The Journal of Strain Analysis for Engineering Design DOI: 10.1177/0309324712464921 sdj.sagepub.com/content/early/2013/01/10/0309324712464921, Journal of Stress Analysis, Vol 48, (2), 103-111