James Busfield is a Queen Mary University of London professor, and head of the United Kingdom's largest research group in the area of Soft Matter.
Education Busfield completed an MA in Engineering Science at the University of Oxford in 1989. In 2000, he completed a doctoral degree in materials science at Queen Mary University of London under advisor Alan G. Thomas. He made influential studies of ceramic foams and of the electrical and mechanical behavior of filled rubbers. He has chaired the 2003 European Conference on Constitutive Models for Rubber, together with Alan Muhr.
Awards and recognition 2009 - National Teaching Fellowship 2009 - Colwyn Medal from the IOM3 2010 - Sparks–Thomas award from the ACS Rubber Division 2020 - Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering 2021 - George Stafford Whitby Award by the ACS Rubber Division
Notable students Lewis Tunnicliffe
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