Maxwell Fox-Holmes has joined the Distributed Information and Automation Laboratory as a part-time PhD student under Duncan McFarlane’s supervision. His research in Industrial Information Systems focuses on improving the industrial implementability of advanced analysis tools.

Following mechanical engineering internships at British Waterways (Automation of swing bridges) and CEA’s (Centre for Atomic Studies) Megajoules Laser (Component FEA), Max started his career contracting for Airbus. He specialised in 3D tolerance analyses for the improvement of airframe assemblies across Single Aisle, Long Range and Helicopter programmes. He later contracted for GKN Aerospace as a technology engineer working on new technology insertion into production lines, before joining the company as a manufacturing engineer to focus on the industrialisation of machine data extraction. He recently moved to GKN’s new Global Research Centre to focus on a research-based approach to information systems.

Max holds a BSc in Physics and Engineering and MSc in Mechanical and Materials Engineering from the University of Bordeaux. He is a Chartered Engineer, and member of the Institute for Mechanical Engineers.