Industrial Fellowship – Joe Lawton

We were delighted to announce that Joe Lawton was selected as this year’s ERA Foundation Fellow with an Industrial Fellowship from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851.

Joe was selected for his project on the ‘Remote plasma sputtering of high quality thermochromic thin films for energy conservation’. 

Joe is an engineering doctorate candidate at the MiNMaT Centre for Doctoral Training, University of Surrey, and is sponsored by and based at PlasmaQuest Ltd. This award will enable Joe to increase the depth and impact of the highly topical energy saving project and help him develop into a high calibre research engineer and STEM ambassador. 

What is the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 Fellowship

The ERA Foundation has worked with the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 to award an annual ERA Industrial Fellowship several years.

The aim of the fellowship is to encourage profitable innovation and creativity within British. The ERA Fellowship supports those working in the electro-technology sector and is awarded to selected, exceptional graduates with the potential to make an outstanding contribution to Industry for a programme of doctoral level research.