Dr Mark Ainslie is a Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow in the Bulk Superconductivity Group in Division C working on a research project entitled 'Engineering Interactions of Magnetic and Superconducting Materials for Electrical Applications'. This five-year project encompasses materials research on high temperature superconductors in both tape and bulk forms, and electrical and mechanical design of an axial gap, trapped flux-type superconducting electric machine. His current research interests lie in the area of applied superconductivity in electrical engineering, including superconducting electric machine design, power system protection and energy storage, electromagnetic modelling, and interactions between conventional and superconducting materials. Dr Ainslie is a committee member of the Institute of Physics Superconductivity Group

Properties of high temperature superconducting (HTS) tape for electric machines (2013-2015), PhD student Magnetisation properties of high temperature superconducting (HTS) bulk materials for electric machines (2013-2015), PhD student Computation of the field in an axial gap, trapped flux-type superconducting electric machine (2013-2014), Visiting PhD student (China Scholarship Council)