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Katie Vaughan

3D Printing Research Assistant at the CFPR

katie vaughan

Katie is a Research Assistant based in the 3D printing lab at the Centre for Fine Print Research. Working with David Huson on contract research projects, Katie is investigating the use of 3D printing ceramics to make concept models in a ‘real material’ and help prove the commercial viability of 3D printed ceramic bodies. Katie is also undertaking a feasibility study on setting up a 3D printing bureau as a service for artists and designers.

Katie graduated from UWE in 2009 after completing a degree in Interdisciplinary Textile Design (now known as D3). After exhibiting her work at New Designers that year in London, Katie started an MPhil with the Centre for Research in Analytical, Materials and Sensor Science (CRAMSS) in the Applied Science Department at UWE. Here she researched gas sensor fabrication techniques and subsequently developed a new gas sensor for medical diagnostic equipment being used at UWE, Bristol Royal Infirmary Hospital and Bristol Urological Institute. Katie is currently writing up her MPhil thesis and hopes to have it completed by September 2013.