Dr. Barry Lennox

Biography

Barry Lennox is a Professor in Applied Control at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Manchester. He held the EPSRC Chair in Nuclear Decommissioning from 2012 to 2014 and has served as the Research Director at the Dalton Cumbrian Facility. A Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Senior Member of IEEE, Professor Lennox is also a Fellow of the IET and the InstMC, and a Chartered Engineer. He received his BEng in Chemical Engineering and his PhD from Newcastle University. He was appointed as a Lecturer at the University of Manchester in 1997 after working as a Research Associate Fellow at Newcastle and Monash Universities. His research interests include the development and deployment of robotic systems for nuclear decommissioning applications and the application of control systems using acoustic pulse reflectometry for monitoring industrial pipelines. He co-founded Perceptive Engineering, a provider of process control solutions, in 2002, where he utilized his work in acoustics to develop equipment successfully commercialized in the North Sea and across the USA and Asia for detecting and locating blockages in subsea pipelines and heat exchangers. He has supervised the completion of over 30 PhD students and continues to welcome inquiries from prospective students in the fields of robotics and applied control systems.

Research Interests