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Mark Tyrer is a cement chemist and geochemist with interests in resource efficiency and environmental protection. He is currently Professor of Geomaterials and Executive Director of the Faculty Research Centre at Coventry University (appointed December 2016) After completing his Ph.D. in blended Portland-slag cement hydration chemistry, he worked for a small consulting practice (construction materials) and taught chemistry and materials science in Birmingham (F.E. sector) before undertaking post doctoral research at the University of Birmingham and then joining W.S. Atkins in 1990. His work at Atkins was largely environmental, focusing on cement-groundwater-rock-waste interactions for both the nuclear and non-nuclear sectors. In 1996, he took up a Fellowship at Imperial College, London, where he continued to develop work in these areas, being appointed as Research Manager in 2000 for the Faraday Partnership between, Imperial, Cambridge and Birmingham universities. This work sought to develop means by which industrial competitiveness could be increased by efficient use of resources in the UK and formed the Resource Efficiency and Environmental Knowledge Transfer Network (now part of Innovate UK). Whilst at Imperial, he conducted industrial research in cement science, novel sorbents, mineral processing and resource-recovery, has contributed to several books and five patents. He was promoted to Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, a position he still holds as an academic visitor. During his Fellowship, he taught in Egypt at the Tabbin Institute (Helwan, Cairo) under the University of London External Programme on a joint M.Eng. course in Materials Science and Engineering and is a Registered Examiner for the University of London. Whilst at Imperial, he was also appointed as an External Lecturer at the University of Greenwich, where he taught for several years on the M.Sc. in Geomaterials. In 2003 he set up an independent consulting practice, through which he worked as Research Manager for MIRO (the Mineral Industry Research Organisation) acting on behalf of commercial clients in a range of technical and advisory capacities, including BP; Shell; Britannia Refined Metals; Health and Safety Executive; Castle Cements; Tarmac Quarry Products Ltd,; Tarmac Southern Ltd.; Tobermore Ltd.; The National Physical Laboratory; Westminster Abbey (Cosmati Pavement Committee) and others. He is a Company Associate of four commercial organisations in the UK, working on a range of materials and mineral related problems. In 2007 he was appointed as a Principal Research Fellow at the CO2 Centre, University College, London, where he worked on molten salt technology for low-energy cement synthesis and mineral refining. He was appointed as a Director of the Association of Consulting Scientists in 2010. He currently serves on the British Standards committee B/516 (Cements) and on the Concrete Society Expert Working Group on the Analysis of Hardened Concrete. In addition, he is a former chairman of the Construction Materials Group of the Society of Chemical Industry and current Chairman of the Cementitious Materials Group at the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. Mark Tyrer was appointed as visiting Professor of Construction Materials at Coventry University in 2008 and received the IOM3 Pfeil award (2011) for work there on CO2 reduction in the cement industry. Mark Tyrer was elected as a Fellow of the Geological Society of London in 1993, a Fellow of the Institute of Materials Minerals and Mining in 2003, a Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of Great Britain and Ireland in 2013 and to the Min. Soc. Council in 2014. He is a Chartered Scientist (C.Sci. Science Council Registration MIN/126/000004). In 2015, he was elected as a member of the Mathematics Advisory Panel at the National Physical Laboratory with whom he has worked for fifteen years.
Education/Academic qualification
Doctorate, Aston University
1 Sep 1985 → 2 Apr 1992
MSc, University of Salford
1 Sep 1983 → 1 Jun 1985
Degree, University of Liverpool
1 Sep 1979 → 30 Jun 1982
External positions
Hon. Senior Research Fellow, Imperial College London
5 Sep 2010 → …Chairman, Cementitious Materials Group, The Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining
5 Sep 2010 → …Director, Association of Consulting Scientists Ltd
1 Jun 2010 → …Council Member, Mineralogical Sciety of Great Britain and Ireland
31 Dec 1800 → …Fingerprint Dive into the research topics where Mark Tyrer is active. These topic labels come from the works of this person. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
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Research Output 1996 2019
Effects of Sodium Silicate Proportion on Strength Development of Calcined Clay Geopolymer Mortar
Shinkafi, A. B., Khorami, M., Ganjian, E. & Tyrer, M., 9 Sep 2019, Effects of Sodium Silicate Proportion on Strength Development of Calcined Clay Geopolymer Mortar. Ball, R. J., Dams, B., Ferrandiz-Mas, V., Ke, X., Paine, K., Tyrer, M. & Walker, P. (eds.). Bath, UK: University of Bath, p. 148-152 5 p. 053Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding
Effects of the nature of chemical activator on the compressive strength of calcined clay geopolymer mortar
Shinkafi, A. B., Khorami, M., Ganjian, E. & Tyrer, M., 14 Jul 2019, Fifth International Conference on Sustainable Construction Materials and Technologies (SCMT5): Volume 3 (SCMT Conferences) . Ganjian, E., Claisse, P., Limbachiya, M. & Goyal, A. (eds.). International Committee of the SCMT conferences, Vol. 3. p. 17-28 11 p. 5132Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding
Influence of power ultrasound on the portland cement pore solution compositions
Ehsani, A., Ganjian, E., Tyrer, M., Mason, T. & Bateman, M., 9 Sep 2019, 39th Cement and Concrete Science Conference 2019. Ball, R., Dams, B., Ferrandiz-Mas, V., Ke, X., Paine, K., Tyrer, M. & Walker, P. (eds.). University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom: University of Bath, p. 138-138 049Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding
The potency of recycled aggregate in new concrete: A review
Anike, E. E., Saidani, M., Ganjian, E., Tyrer, M. & Olubanwo, A., 7 Oct 2019, In : Construction Innovation: Information, Process, Management. 19, 4, p. 594-613 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Thermodynamic modelling of cement chemistry at high temperature
Tyrer, M., 7 Jul 2019, Fifth International Conference on Sustainable Construction Materials and Technologies (SCMT5): Volume 3 (SCMT Conferences) . Ganjian, E., Claisse, P., Limbachiya, M. & Goyal, A. (eds.). International Committee of the SCMT conferences, Vol. 3. 9 p. (Sustainable Construction Materials and Technologies).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference proceeding