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Inaugural Lecture Series

Inaugural Lectures have been an essential feature of university life for centuries.

Loughborough University continues to value the tradition, encouraging new Professors to deliver them, and all staff and students to attend.

Inaugural Lectures are a public event and open to everyone - you do not have to be an expert in the field to attend. The University extends the invitation to these lectures to all members of staff, students and their guests as well as our campus partners, based on LUSEP, and the local community.

Previous Inaugural Lectures

A head and shoulders shot of Marco Peccianti

Emergent Photonics: How do ant colonies and crystals hold the key to seeing the invisible with Terahertz eyes?

Professor Marco Peccianti

Department of Physics

  • 14 May 2025
  • 5pm
A wait up shot of Professor Joanna Szmelter

What are the sources of complexities in fluid flows and how to simulate them

Professor Joanna Szmelter

School of Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

  • 14 May 2025
  • 5pm
Professor Kelly Morrison

What use are magnetic materials when trying to reach Net Zero?

Professor Kelly Morrison

Department of Physics

  • 9 April 2025
  • 5pm
Professor Valerie Pinfield

What can (ultra)sound waves tell us about mayonnaise and aircraft wings?

Professor Valerie Pinfield

Department of Chemical Engineering

  • 9 April 2025
  • 5pm
Anna Grosman

Are corporations ruling the world or serving society?

Professor Anna Grosman

Institute for International Management and Entrepreneurship

  • 12 March 2025
  • 5pm
Gerhard Schnyder

From state to market and back? A teleological history of my research to date.

Professor Gerhard Schnyder

Institute for International Management and Entrepreneurship

  • 12 March 2025
  • 5pm
Professor Adrian Spencer

Can transportation Net Zero goals be achieved?

Professor Adrian Spencer

Department of Aeronautical and Automotive Engineering

  • 19 February 2025
  • 5pm
Professor Chris Keylock

How can we improve upon existing methods for modelling turbulent flows?

Professor Chris Keylock

School of Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

  • 19 February 2025
  • 5pm
Professor Karen Coopman

Can the same person be both a pharmacologist and an engineer?

Professor Karen Coopman

Department of Chemical Engineering

  • 27 November 2024
  • 5pm
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