Professor Karl Dearn is an Engineer with over twenty years of industrial and academic experience in Mechanical Engineering. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Holds both a Senior Whitworth and Whitworth Scholar, Past-President of the Whitworth Society and was the 2009 IMechE Visionary awarded for Outstanding Leadership.
Professor Dearn was appointed to a lectureship in 2008, promoted to Senior Lecturer and then to a Readership in 2016 with the title, Reader in Mechanical Engineering.
During the past 10 years, Karl has built a team of researchers specialising in tribology and mechanical engineering design with a focus on innovation. His current research group, the Mason Institute of Tribology, consists of five post-doctoral research fellows, six Ph.D. researchers and a Masters in Research student, with recent graduates currently employed as Assistant Professors, Lecturers and Senior Research Fellows at leading Academic Institutions, and Senior Industrial roles across many sectors.
