Our people
Get in touch with the people involved in the Leeds Institute of Textiles and Colour.
Director of LITAC
- Professor Stephen Russell, Professor, Textile Materials and Technology
Deputy Director of LITAC
- Dr Paul Thornton, Asssociate Professor, Polymer Chemistry and Sustainable Materials
LITAC Professional Team
- Sue Rainton, Associate Director
- Kate Fenton, Research Bid and Business Development Manager
- Giorgio Grande, Communications and Engagement Officer
- Bryony Jones, Business Management Coordinator & PA to the Director
LITAC Academic Network
Academic profiles are listed alphabetically in the following sections. Many of the listings have links to their contact details and research interests.
Surname A-L
- Dr Kevin Almond, Lecturer, Fashion
- Dr Sonja Andrew, Associate Professor, Fashion Design Innovation
- Mohammed Asaf, Technician
- Dr Rubab Ashiq, Lecturer, Fashion Marketing
- Professor Richard Blackburn, Professor, Sustainable Materials
- Dr Bethan Bide, Lecturer, Design and Cultural Theory
- Dr Christine Bosch Lecturer, Diet and Health
- Dr Peter Broadbent, Research Assistant
- Professor Chris Carr, Professor, Textile Technology
- Dr Vien Cheung, Associate Professor
- Dr Alice Dallabona, Lecturer, Fashion Marketing
- Dr Matthew Davis, Associate Professor, Organizational Psychology
- Professor Francesco Del Galdo, Professor of Experimental Medicine
- Professor Franciso M Goucoolea, Chair, Biopolymers
- Dr Thuy Do, Associate Professor, Microbiology
- Elaine Evans, Senior Teaching Fellow
- Mary Glasper, Research Technician, Nonwovens
- Dr Alessia Grassi, Lecturer, Fashion Marketing
- Dr Boshuo Guo, Lecturer, Digital Fashion Marketing
- Professor Russell Harris, Professor, Future Manufacturing Processes
- Dr Caroline Hemigray, Lecturer, Fashion Marketing and Colour
- Dr Phil Henry, Lecturer
- Dr Eunsuk Hur, Teaching Fellow
- Professor Paul Kay, Professor, Water Science
- Dr Hye-Won Lim, Lecturer, Fashion Design
- Dr Brian Jackson, Research Facility Manager
- Dr Raheleh Jafari, University Academic Fellow, AI Technology in Fashion Design
- Dr Zi Young Kang, Lecturer, Fashion Design
- Professor Nikil Kapur, Professor, Applied Fluid Mechanics
- Dr Kevin Laycock, Lecturer, Art and Design, Teaching and Scholarship
- Dr Hye-Won Lim, Lecturer in Fashion Design
- Dr Maria Logkizidou, Lecturer, Fashion Marketing
Surname M-Z
- Professor Ningtao Mao, Professor, Fibre and Textile Technology
- Dr Edel Moore, Lecturer, Marketing
- Dr Bao Nguyen, Associate Professor, Physical Organic Chemistry
- Dr Qianqian Pan, Research Fellow, Colour
- Professor Phil Purnell, Professor, Materials and Structures
- Professor Chris Rayner, Professor, Organic Chemistry
- Dr Peter Rhodes, Associate Professor
- Dr Muriel Rigout, Associate Professor, Textile Printing and Design
- Dr Nicolett Rousseau, University Academic Fellow
- Dr Eleanor Scott, Lecturer in Fashion Design: Creative Knit and Innovation
- Dr Natalia Sergeeva, Associate Professor
- Dr Serge Sharoff, Professor, Language Technology
- Professor Yu Shi, Chair of Textiles Innovation & Smart Composite Materials
- Professor Pammi Sinha, Professor, Fashion Management
- Dr Yuri Siregar, Lecturer, Fashion Marketing and Brand Design
- Dr Tang Tang, Associate Professor
- Professor Muhammad Tausif, Professor, Sustainable Textile Manufacturing
- Dr Ioana Taylor, Research Technician, Microfibre Analysis
- Dr Lindsey Waterton Taylor, Lecturer, Weaving Technologies and Design
- Dr Mark Taylor, Research Officer
- Dr Paul Thornton,Associate Professor, Polymer chemistry
- Professor Steven Toms, Professor, History of the Textile Industry
- Professor Giuseppe Tronci, Professor, Healthcare Materials
- Professor Pietro Valdastri, Chair, Robotics and Autonomous Systems
- Dr Armando Vargas-Palacios, Senior Research Fellow, Economic Evaluation
- Dr Marjan Vazirian, Research Assistant
- Dr He Wang, Associate Professor, Machine Learning
- Dr Claire Watson, Associate Professor, Fashion
- Professor Stephen Westland, Professor, Colour Science and Technology and Director, Research and Innovation
- Professor David Wood, Professor, Dental Materials
- Professor Kaida Xiao, Associate Professor, Colour and Imaging Science
- Dr Zi Young Kang, Lecturer, Fashion Design
General enquiries
Please email Leeds Institute of Textiles and Colour at litac@leeds.ac.uk.