Our People
LITAC is the University of Leeds’ hub for textiles, colour, and fashion research, tackling global challenges in the industry. Founded through a £21.1 million co-investment from The Clothworkers’ Company and the University, LITAC drives innovation in textile science, colour technology, and sustainable fashion.
Building on 150 years of expertise, we collaborate with industry, charities, and NGOs to develop new materials, processes, manufacturing techniques, digital tools, and technologies that address the needs of society, the environment, and the fashion sector. Bringing together various faculties at the University of Leeds, the members of the LITAC academic network represent a diverse and wide-ranging array of research areas.
Director of LITAC
- Professor Stephen Russell, Professor, Textile Materials and Technology
Deputy Director of LITAC
- Dr Paul Thornton, Asssociate Professor, Polymer Chemistry and Sustainable Materials
LITAC Professional Team
- Sue Rainton, Associate Director
- Kate Fenton, Research Bid and Business Development Manager
- Giorgio Grande, Communications and Engagement Officer
Future Fashion Factory Team
- Professor Stephen Russell, Director
- Suzy Shepherd, Co-Director
- Sue Rainton, Programme Manager
- Giorgio Grande, Communications and Engagement Officer
LITAC Academic Network
Academic profiles are listed alphabetically in the following sections. Many of the listings have links to their contact details and research interests.
Surname A-L
- Dr Kevin Almond, Lecturer, Fashion
- Dr Sonja Andrew, Associate Professor, Fashion Design Innovation
- Mohammed Asaf, Technician
- Dr Rubab Ashiq, Lecturer, Fashion Marketing
- Professor Richard Blackburn, Professor, Sustainable Materials
- Dr Christine Bosch Lecturer, Diet and Health
- Dr Peter Broadbent, Research Assistant
- Professor Chris Carr, Professor, Textile Technology
- Dr Vien Cheung, Associate Professor
- Dr Alice Dallabona, Lecturer, Fashion Marketing
- Dr Matthew Davis, Associate Professor, Organizational Psychology
- Professor Francesco Del Galdo, Professor of Experimental Medicine
- Professor Franciso M Goucoolea, Chair, Biopolymers
- Dr Thuy Do, Associate Professor, Microbiology
- Elaine Evans, Senior Teaching Fellow
- Mary Glasper, Research Technician, Nonwovens
- Dr Alessia Grassi, Lecturer, Fashion Marketing
- Dr Boshuo Guo, Lecturer, Digital Fashion Marketing
- Professor Russell Harris, Professor, Future Manufacturing Processes
- Dr Caroline Hemigray, Lecturer, Fashion Marketing and Colour
- Dr Phil Henry, Lecturer
- Dr Eunsuk Hur, Teaching Fellow
- Professor Paul Kay, Professor, Water Science
- Dr Hye-Won Lim, Lecturer, Fashion Design
- Dr Brian Jackson, Research Facility Manager
- Dr Raheleh Jafari, University Academic Fellow, AI Technology in Fashion Design
- Dr Zi Young Kang, Lecturer, Fashion Design
- Professor Nikil Kapur, Professor, Applied Fluid Mechanics
- Dr Kevin Laycock, Lecturer, Art and Design, Teaching and Scholarship
- Dr Hye-Won Lim, Lecturer in Fashion Design
- Dr Maria Logkizidou, Lecturer, Fashion Marketing
Surname M-Z
- Professor Ningtao Mao, Professor, Fibre and Textile Technology
- Dr Edel Moore, Lecturer, Marketing
- Dr Bao Nguyen, Associate Professor, Physical Organic Chemistry
- Dr Qianqian Pan, Research Fellow, Colour
- Professor Phil Purnell, Professor, Materials and Structures
- Professor Chris Rayner, Professor, Organic Chemistry
- Dr Peter Rhodes, Associate Professor
- Dr Muriel Rigout, Associate Professor, Textile Printing and Design
- Dr Nicolett Rousseau, University Academic Fellow
- Dr Eleanor Scott, Lecturer in Fashion Design: Creative Knit and Innovation
- Dr Natalia Sergeeva, Associate Professor
- Dr Serge Sharoff, Professor, Language Technology
- Professor Yu Shi, Chair of Textiles Innovation & Smart Composite Materials
- Professor Pammi Sinha, Professor, Fashion Management
- Dr Yuri Siregar, Lecturer, Fashion Marketing and Brand Design
- Dr Tang Tang, Associate Professor
- Professor Muhammad Tausif, Professor, Sustainable Textile Manufacturing
- Dr Ioana Taylor, Research Technician, Microfibre Analysis
- Dr Lindsey Waterton Taylor, Lecturer, Weaving Technologies and Design
- Dr Mark Taylor, Research Officer
- Dr Paul Thornton,Associate Professor, Polymer chemistry
- Professor Steven Toms, Professor, History of the Textile Industry
- Professor Giuseppe Tronci, Professor, Healthcare Materials
- Professor Pietro Valdastri, Chair, Robotics and Autonomous Systems
- Dr Armando Vargas-Palacios, Senior Research Fellow, Economic Evaluation
- Dr Marjan Vazirian, Research Assistant
- Dr He Wang, Associate Professor, Machine Learning
- Dr Claire Watson, Associate Professor, Fashion
- Professor Stephen Westland, Professor, Colour Science and Technology and Director, Research and Innovation
- Professor David Wood, Professor, Dental Materials
- Professor Kaida Xiao, Associate Professor, Colour and Imaging Science
- Dr Zi Young Kang, Lecturer, Fashion Design