Simon Middleburgh is a professor and reader in nuclear materials at the Nuclear Futures Institute. His research is focused on developing new nuclear materials, investigating material behaviour in extreme environments (including nuclear and aerospace) and combining materials modelling techniques with experimental methods. Simon has represented industry in a number of expert panel groups including: the IAEA ACTOF group tasked with investigating accident tolerant fuels and SCIP II/III (the Studsvik cladding integrity project). Simon has been part of international research collaborations including NEUP-DOE projects in the USA, MUZIC (a collaborative project investigating corrosion and hydrogen pickup mechanisms in zirconium alloys) and CARAT (consortium of academic researchers investigating accident tolerant fuels). Simon has been on the nuclear advisory committee at the Centre of Nuclear Engineering at Imperial College London and has had visiting academic positions at Imperial College London and KTH, Stockholm during his time working in industry.