Adam Feldman

Adam Feldman brings a range of skills to the teaching of Engineering and Renewable Energy. Originally qualified in Medicine, he practiced as a Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon both within the NHS and privately. For 20 years he taught clinical medicine and surgery at both undergraduate and high postgraduate levels.

Always interested in energy and especially Renewable Energy, he chose to formally study the subject at degree level, changing his active career from medicine to energy engineering. Associate Professor in Renewable Energy Engineering until his retirement in August 2024.

Fascinated not only by current and future proposals in the energy fields, Adam has long and deep appreciation of the history and development of science and engineering. He is well placed to offer inspirational teaching and training to science and engineering students across all age-ranges and experience.

Areas of expertise include -

Energy storage techniques, particularly electrochemical energy-interchange between hydrogen and electricity.

Sustainable architecture, minimisation of carbon-footprint and energy use within the built environment.

Applied thermodynamics - with specific interest in the Stirling closed hot-'air' cycle.

Professional ethics within the fields of engineering.

Academic Qualifications

1988 MB ChB (with Distinction) University of Bristol Medical School

1993 FRCS (England) Royal College of Surgeons of England

1993 FRCS (Edinburgh) Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

1999 FRCS (Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery)

2011 BSc (1^st Class Honours) Renewable Energy – University of Exeter

2011 ACSM Associate of Camborne School of Mines

2013 PCAP Postgraduate Certificate of Academic Practice - University of Exeter

2020 NTF - Awarded the title of National Teaching Fellow for support and promotion of teaching excellence throughout Higher Education, by Advance-HE the UK Universities' Higher Education Academy.

Professional Body Membership

President (2022-24) Cornish Institute of Engineers

Institution of Engineering and Technology

Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh

Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England

Fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association

Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy

National Teaching Fellow - Advance HE