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Sarah Green is a distinguished materials engineer and academic leader, currently serving as Visiting Researcher in the School of Engineering at Lancaster University, where she previously held the position of Head of Department from 2022 to 2024 and Professor in Materials Engineering. She earned her undergraduate degree in ceramics and glasses from the University of Sheffield, a PhD in materials engineering from the University of Nottingham, and a postgraduate teaching qualification from Durham University. Her career began with postdoctoral research at the University of Nottingham and a visiting researcher role at the Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen. In 1998, she joined Durham University as a Lecturer in the School of Engineering, advancing to Senior Lecturer in 2005. She then moved to the University of Cumbria in 2008 to lead the development of engineering degree programmes for the nuclear and renewables supply chain at the Energy Coast campus.

Green joined Lancaster University’s Department of Engineering in 2010 as a Lecturer, progressing to Senior Lecturer in 2013, Reader in 2016, Professor in 2019, Deputy Head of Department in 2021, and inaugural Head of the School of Engineering from 2022 to 2024. Her research specializations encompass strength of materials, the materials cycle, sustainable materials use, materials failure, tribology, wear, higher education research and evaluation, and IOM3 accreditation. Key publications include “Comparative evaluation of conventional friction stir welding and ultrasonic vibration-assisted friction stir welding techniques” (2025, with El-Zathry et al.), “Multiscale Approach of Investigating the Density of Simulated Fuel for a Zero Power Reactor” (2024, with Sardar and Degueldre), “Short life fission products extracted from molten salt reactor fuel for radiopharmaceutical applications” (2024, with Degueldre et al.), “Grain Secondary Recrystallisation in Advanced Gas Cooled Reactor Fuel Cladding: Characterisation and Modelling” (2021, with Degueldre et al.), and “Hybrid and adhesively bonded joints with dissimilar adherends: a critical review” (2021, with Yousefi Kanani et al.). She has secured funding for projects such as the Talent and Research Stabilisation Fund (2022), carpet and textile flooring waste solutions (2022), and contributions to molten salt reactor experiments and structural elastomeric fixings. Green is a Chartered Engineer (CEng), Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv), Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM), and Fellow of the Women’s Engineering Society (FWES, elected 2017). She contributes to the IOM3 accreditation and professional review panel.