Jacob began his career at the age of 16 when he became an apprentice mechanical engineer at Cummins Turbo Technologies Huddersfield. During the course of his apprenticeship he studied part time resulting in a HNC in Mechanical Engineering. Once his apprenticeship was complete he continued to study part time whilst maintaing a full time job and in 2015 he graduated Huddersfield University with a upper second class honours degree in Mechanical engineering. He then chose to leave work in 2017 to futher his studies and undertake a PHD at the MIAMI facility at Huddersfield University upgrading a transmission electron microscope with in-situ ion beam line to discover ion irradiation effects in ZrC nanoparticles.

Research consists of:

• Radiation damage in materials relevant to the nuclear industry
• Ion Beam systems
• Transmission Electron Microscopy
• Nanoparticles
• Computer Calculations for ion transportation in matter