Ciara Fox
Principal Material Scientist @Amentum
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WORK HISTORY
Principal Material Scientist @Amentum
Warrington, GB
Senior engineering leader driving delivery, technical assurance, and growth across advanced fission and fusion nuclear programmes.• Lead materials engineering strategy across high-value advanced nuclear projects, aligning technical delivery with commercial objectives, regulatory requirements, and long-term deployment strategy.• Provide technical authority for high-temperature materials performance in a range of novel and established environments. • Direct multidisciplinary teams delivering materials qualification, compatibility assessment, and degradation programmes for nuclear systems.• Support programme managers in scope definition, cost forecasting, risk identification, and milestone governance to ensure on-time, on-budget technical delivery.• Contribute to bid development activities, shaping technical workscopes, estimating effort, identifying commercial risk, and strengthening win strategies. • Engage senior clients, regulators (ONR, EA, HSE), and industry partners to secure confidence in materials strategies underpinning safety cases and licensing pathways.This role integrates technical authority with increasing commercial and operational accountability, building capability toward portfolio-level leadership in advanced nuclear delivery and growth.
EDUCATION
The University of Manchester
Master's degree, Chemistry
The University of Manchester
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Materials Engineering
ABOUT CIARA FOX
Engineering leader in advanced nuclear systems, focused on delivering next-generation fission and fusion technologies to enable Net Zero at scale.As a Principal Materials Engineer at Amentum, I lead complex materials and qualification programmes, operate at the interface of technical delivery and regulatory strategy (ONR, EA, HSE), and contribute to major advanced reactor initiatives. My experience spans multidisciplinary team leadership, executive-level stakeholder engagement, bid development and shaping long-term technical and delivery strategy for first-of-a-kind nuclear systems.Driven by impact, delivery excellence, and leading high-performing teams.
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