Professor Sam Kingman

Responsibilities

As interim Provost and Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sam Kingman takes the executive lead on strategic and operational planning and academic resources, working closely with members of the University Executive Board. 

He line-manages the four Faculty Pro-Vice-Chancellors looking after five faculties (Arts, Engineering, Medicine and Health Sciences, Social Sciences, and Science), working closely with them and other senior colleagues to ensure the delivery of world changing research, excellent teaching and an outstanding student experience. Sam works with the heads of professional services in the University to ensure issues that cross the academic and professional services boundaries are addressed effectively. 

Sam also has responsibility for institutional risk management and takes the lead on strategic and operational planning and advice to the President and Vice-Chancellor. He serves on University Council and its Committees, as well as representing the University locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. 

Profile

Professor Kingman served as Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Deputy Head of the Faculty of Engineering from 2015-2018.

Prior to this he served as Associate Dean for Research and also Head of the Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering. Sam holds  BEng, MSc, PhD and DEng degrees in Mineral, Process and Chemical Engineering.

He started at Nottingham in 2000 and was awarded a personal chair in 2006, which at the time made him one of the youngest Professors in the UK.

He is also a charted Engineering and a Fellow of the Institution of Materials, Minerals and Mining.

Teaching and Research Summary

The main focus of Professor Kingman’s research is microwave processing of materials. This work has focused upon developing a fundamental understanding of the interaction of microwave energy with materials and how such data underpins scale up of microwave processes to industrial scale.

The common theme of Sam’s research relates to understanding the interaction of microwave energy with materials and how this knowledge relates to the development of large scale industrial microwave processing systems. Critical is an understanding of the dielectric properties of the heated materials and how they change with the local conditions, how this impacts the process on a micro-scale, the design of heating cavities for processing and how these designs interact with bulk solids and liquids handling systems. Since 2000, Sam has produced over 170 refereed journal papers and he is a named inventor on 29 patent families with over 180 individual patents. The majority of these patents have been filed with the industrial sponsors who have supported his work. 

The quality of Sam’s work has been recognised through several individual medals, most recently the 2011 Beilby Medal and Prize for “work of exceptional practical significance in chemical engineering, applied materials science, energy efficiency or a related field”, awarded by RSC, IOM3 and SCI.  Professor Kingman has presented numerous international invited and keynote lectures including a recent Friday Evening Discourse at The Royal Institution of Great Britain. 

Sam has also carried out a number of international consultancies for major blue chip organisations across a number of diverse industry sectors, including food and drink, minerals and mining, chemicals and oil and gas.