Key details
Professor Mark Jolly
Professor of Sustainable Materials and Manufacturing
Mark is Professor of Sustainable Materials and Manufacturing at the University of Greenwich in the Computational Science and Engineering Group in the School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences in the Faculty of Engineering and Science. Prior to this he had been Director of Manufacturing and Materials at Cranfield University.
He has over 40 years’ experience in materials and manufacturing. He spent 13 years working in industry at tier 1&2 suppliers both in the UK and abroad before moving into academia in 1995. In 2012 he joined Cranfield University after 17 years at the University of Birmingham. He has managed over £22 M of research projects since 1999 and has over 350 publications, technical reports, articles and books. Until December 2024 he was Director of the UKRI Transforming the Foundation Industries Research and Innovation Hub (TransFIRe) - a £10 million project looking at the carbon impact of all the materials in a modern society covering metals, cement, ceramics, glass, polymers and paper, most of which is used in the construction industry.
Mark is on the Royal Academy of Engineering (RAEng) National Engineering Policy Centre (NEPC) working group on Materials for Net-Zero which is currently looking at the future materials demands for infrastructure. He also sits on the Advisory Board for the Advanced School on Circular Metal Components for the Swedish Manufacturing Industry (CIRCUMET). Most recently Professor Jolly gave two keynote papers at the International CivilTech2025 Conference in Taipei, Taiwan, 20-21st November 2025.
Responsibilities within the university
Professor of Sustainable Materials and Manufacturing
Awards
With his co-authors he was the recipient of the 2024 TMS Light Metals Warren Peterson Subject Award for Cast Shop for Aluminium Production with a paper entitled “Defect Minimisation in Vacuum-Assisted Plaster Mould Investment Casting Through Simulation of High-Value Aluminium Alloy Components”.
2019 John Campbell Gold Medal awarded by ICME for “continual advancement in sustainable manufacturing and promotion of excellence in casting technologies”.
2010 Winner of the University of Birmingham Josiah Mason Founder’s Award for Business Advancement
2008 was the recipient of the Oliver Stubbs Medal (ICME).
Recognition
Mark is a Chartered Engineer (CEng) and Chartered Environmentalist (CEnv) and sits on the Society for the Environment Honorary Fellows Panel. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (FIMMM). He is a Fellow of the Institute of Cast Metals Engineers (FICME) and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Founders and Freeman of the City of London.
Mark has sat on the EPSRC Peer Review College since 2003 and sits on the council of the Cast Metals Federation (CMF), is a reviewer for the European Space Agency (ESA) and Enterprise Ireland and sits on the Society for the Environment Honorary Fellows Panel.
Research / Scholarly interests
Circular economy and sustainability including resource efficient manufacturing and process modelling.
Key funded projects
- UKRI (Ati), Ultraclean, (01/08/2023-31/7/2026), £2,070,000
- UKRI (EPSRC), Sustainable Additive Manufacturing, (01/10/2022-30/09/2025), £1,665,172
- EPSRC ISCF TFI, Transforming the Foundation Industries Research and Innovation Hub (TransFIRe) (01/07/2021-31/12/2024), £5,868,731
- EPSRC, Circular Economy Network+ in Transportation Systems (CENTS) (01/12/2019-01/12/2022), £1,015,576
- KTP InnovateUK/Haddonstone, Future manufacturing for Cast stone (08/01/2019-30/8/2022), £233,160
- TPC (Eng D), Research into thin walled investment castings (01/09/2018-30/8/2022), £64,000
A full list can be seen here: GtR The Gateway to Research: UKRI portal onto publicly funded research.