External collaborators:

  • Recent and current research partners include:
  • 3M
  • Atomic Weapons Establishment(AWE)
  • Bombardier Aerospace
  • Defence Science and Technology Laboratory(DSTL)
  • European Space Agency(ESA)
  • GE Avaition
  • Rolls-Royce
  • University of Manchester
  • University of Oporto
  • University of Toulouse

External roles and appointments:

  • Past Chairman of the Society for Adhesion and Adhesives (an IoMMM Group). Gary is currently a Committee Member
  • Member of the Light Metals Division Board of the IoMMM
  • Member of the Surface Engineering Division Board of the IoMMM
  • Past President of the East Midlands Materials Society (a local Society of IoMMM)
  • Sole or co-organiser of fourteen major events/conferences over the past five years on behalf of Loughborough University or learned societies

Gary is professionally active member of the International Editorial Board of both the International Journal of Adhesion and Adhesives and the Journal of Adhesion.  He also regularly referees for a number of other materials-related journals.