Professor Paul Beasley

School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Honorary Professor

Profile

Professor Paul Beasley is Head of Research and Development UK at Siemens based in Oxford, with responsibility for managing and developing their internal and external innovation networks in the UK. In his role, Paul identifies innovation opportunities in-line with the Company’s diverse business sectors by supporting global collaborations and managing the university engagement strategy. Paul has been with Siemens for over 20 years where he has also been awarded Principal Innovator status. Prior to his current role he has been Head of Strategic Development, for Siemens UK Technology Group, responsible for identifying and evaluating disruptive innovation technologies and concepts for the future Company portfolio. In 1999, he joined Oxford Magnet Technology from Oxford Instruments, initially heading the Magnet Design and Applications Team and then was appointed Deputy Engineering Director/Strategic Development Manager when Siemens acquired the business.

Qualifications

B.Sc. (Hons.) Class 1. Physics.
Final Year Project – ‘Thermal boundary resistance in liquid Helium II’.

Ph.D. – ‘Positron studies of the annealing processes in Nickel and Gold’.

Research interests

Professor Beasley has over 52 papers and patents the most recent being the below: 

Radionuclide Production Using A Compact, Low-Energy Accelerator System

W D. Webster, G T. Parks, D Titov, P Beasley, O Heid

8th International Conference on Isotopes 2014, Chicago

Ammonia Energy Vector

Patents pending

Ammonia and Hydrogen in Combustion, Laminar Studies

Pugh DG, Valera-Medina A, Marsh R, Crayford A, Bowen P,, Beasley P, Hughes T

7th International Conference on Applied Energy, 2015

The UK Science Budget

Evidence to The House of Commons Science and Technology Committee 2015

Open Data and Living Labs: Paul Beasley of Siemens talks about unique partnership opportunities at UK Universities

2018

Panel Moderator for the University-Industry Development Programme Summit

Collaboration metric panel, Oxford 2019

Professional activities and memberships

1988 Elected Member of the Institute of Physics [MInstP]

  1. Elected Chartered Physicist [CPhys]
  1. Elected Member of the European Physical Society

2011 Industrial Affiliate John Adams Institute, University of Oxford

2011 Non-core Member of the Science and Technology Facilities Council Science Board

2012 Member of the Institute of Physics Particle Accelerator & Beams Committee

2012 Member of the Science and Technology Facilities Council CLASP Committee

2012 Member of the EPSRC Centre for Innovative Manufacturing, Intelligent Automation advisory board

2012 Member of the EPSRC Peer Review College

2012 Executive Board member of the UK Regenerative Medicine Board

2013 Member of the EPSRC Strategic Advisory Network

2013 CBI Inter-Company Academic Relations Group

2013 Visiting Professorship at the University of Huddersfield, Particle Accelerator Group

2014 Member of the Newcastle Institute for Research on Sustainability Advisory Committee

2014 Member of the UK Parliamentary & Science Committee

2014 Visiting Professorship at the University of ºù«Ӱҵ

2014 Elected Member of the Institute for Engineering & Technology [MIET]

2015 Member of the Science and Technology Facilities Council Innovation Board

2015 Elected Chartered Engineer [CEng]

2015 Member of CBI International Innovation working group

2016 Project Flexis Industrial Advisory Board

2016 Member of the Welsh Assembly Smart Living Technical Group

2018 Visiting Professorship at the University of Huddersfield, Research and Enterprise

2018 Member of Oxford Local Enterprise Partnership – Innovation Board

2018 Member of Royal Institution Industrial Advisory Board