Geoff Scamans is a Professor of Metallurgy at Brunel University and is the Chief Scientific Officer at Innoval Technology. His expertise is in aluminium alloys and their applications in the automotive and aerospace industries and in knowledge transfer from the research base to industry.

Geoff was presented with the Aluminium Industry Award at the Aluminium Federation’s 2017 dinner. This recognised both his academic achievements and his industrial career that started at Alcan International in Banbury in 1974. He became, perhaps their youngest, Principal Scientist in 1983 a role he continued when moving to Innoval Technology in 2003 a company he helped found based on the principle of joint ownership of all employees. The award also reflected his world authority on automotive light-weighting and his involvement with aluminium car body development for Ford and then Jaguar Land Rover that resulted in their current range of aluminium intensive vehicles and the closed loop recycling system for press shop scrap. It was noted by AlFed that “Geoff has succeeded not only in becoming the aluminium “go-to” expert, but also in developing and nurturing younger and talented scientists throughout his career”.  He is only the fourth recipient of this rare award.