Dr Gebril El-Fallah was appointed as Lecturer in the Mechanics of Materials Group within the University of Leicester's School of Engineering in early 2022. Before arriving in Leicester, Gebril completed a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering (2013) and a master's degree in Nuclear Engineering from Imperial College London (2015) followed by a PhD at University of Cambridge (2019), where he worked in the Phase Transformations and Complex Properties research group. He was a Research Associate in Cambridge for one year following his PhD, a Teaching Fellow and a Director of Studies at Wolfson College, Cambridge. Gebril also holds a Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

Wang Pengxin graduated from the Institute of New Materials Technology at Beijing University of Science and Technology in 2022. His research direction was corrosion continuous monitoring and big data technology. From 2022 to 2023, he worked at NISCO New Materials Research Institute, focusing on machine learning-based prediction of the mechanical properties of steel. In 2023, he began studying for a PhD at the University of Leicester with a research focus on designing bainitic reduced-activation steels for fusion applications.