Dr Ruth Goodridge
Telephone number: +44 (0)1509 227567
Email: R.D.Goodridge@lboro.ac.uk
Professional/academic background
Ruth Goodridge graduated from the University of Birmingham in 1999 with a BMedSc(Hons) degree in Biomaterials. After a year out to work at Biomaterials companies and research institutes in the UK, Australia and the US, she returned to the UK to pursue a PhD at the University of Leeds looking at the laser sintering of bioceramics. Upon completion of her PhD in 2004, she was awarded a JSPS Fellowship to investigate new materials for laser sintering at NAIST, Japan. She joined the Additive Manufacturing Group at Loughborough University in 2006, where she has continued her research into new materials for laser sintering, now predominantly focusing on polymers as part of the SCUTA project.
Broad interests and expertise
Laser sintering of polymers and bioceramics
Additive manufacturing processes
Biomaterials; bioactivity testing
External interests
Executive Board Member, UK-JSPS Association
Research Group memberships (other than AMRG)
Sports Technology Institute
Current research activity
SCUTA - analysis/development of laser sintering materials for Personalised Protective Sports Equipment
Royal Society Joint Project with Prof. M.Okamoto, Toyota Technological Institute, Japan - laser sintering of polymer-clay nanocomposites
Stratasys FDM Testing Program