Previously a Professor at the University of Nottingham, Dr. Clare held a Research Chair from the Royal Academy of Engineering, and was the Deputy Director of the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre. At the University of British Columbia, he is the Associate Program Director of Manufacturing Engineering, an undergraduate program jointly run by the departments of Mechanical and Materials Engineering. His research focuses on developing manufacturing technologies and approaches for a sustainable future, investigating additive manufacturing, electrical discharge machining, electrolyte jet machining, electron beam and laser processes, stochastics in engineering design and manufacture, as well as manufacturing for high value and high integrity applications like aerospace, biomedical, tool and nuclear.
Dr. Clare will be formally admitted as a Fellow in a ceremony in London on November 27, 2024, when the new members sign the roll book and join the almost 1700 existing Fellows of the Academy.