Paul Shore
McKeown Chair, Cranfield University
Paul holds the McKeown Chair of Ultra Precision Technologies at Cranfield. He trained as
an apprentice in the machine tool industry in the UK prior to working internationally within
the bearing industry. He was a senior engineer at SKF’s research centre in the
Netherlands and later became Technical Director at Sweden’s largest machine tool
company, Liköping Machine Tools AB. He worked at SKF AB headquarters in Gothenburg
taking responsibility for the precision production engineering research before taking up an
academic role at Cranfield. At Cranfield he leads the Cranfield University Precision
Engineering activity. He also directs the EPSRC funded UPS2 Integrated Knowledge Centre
which aims to translate research outputs to wealth generation and job creation. He is the
incoming President of the European Society of Precision Engineering and Nanotechnology,
an enthusiast of engaging young people into science and engineering, a keen motorcyclist
and an ever slowing football player.