Dr Xavier Tonnellier
Research Fellow in Ultra Precision Engineering
Location: Building 90, Cranfield campus
E: x.p.tonnellier@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 750111 x2795
Manufacturing and Materials
Current activities
- Large scale ultra precision surfaces technologies
- Advanced optical fabrication.
Clients
- RCUK.
Background
Dr Xavier Tonnellier is a Research Fellow in Ultra Precision Technologies. He joined Professor Shore's Precision Engineering Institute at Cranfield University in 2004. While working as a Research Assistant, he wrote a PhD thesis entitled “Precision Grinding for Rapid Manufacturing of Large Optics”.
In 2008, he was appointed Research Fellow in the UK's Integrated Knowledge Centre for Ultra Precision and Structured Surfaces (IKC-UPS2). He is currently researching on the effective manufacturing technologies for large freeform optics including: lightweighted space optics, high power laser optics and large telescope mirrors.
He obtained an MSc in mechanical and manufacturing engineering from ENIT (Grande Ecole, France) in 2004. He worked on research projects including: “High Speed Green Machining of Ceramics Space Components” (Boostec, France) and “High Speed Machining of Light Alloy Aerospace Components” (LTU/SAAB Aircraft, Sweden).
