Chris Magazzeni

Investor

2023 - Current

Areas of interest: Space, Aerospace & Defence, Advanced Manufacturing, and Materials. Associate - working with existing portfolio companies and sourcing new opportunities, investing in technology innovations to improve and secure the world.

Co-Chair & Co-Founder

2023

www.thedin.uk

Board Director

2023

Representing IQ on: ToffeX Porotech (Dec 2023 - Jul 2024) Boltzbit

Board Observer

2023

Supporting IQ board representation on: - Paragraf - Oxford Space Systems - BMLL - Opteran - QuadSAT - Ionate - Ai Build

Member

2023

Research Fellow

2022 - 2023

Built tools to enable advanced manufacturing methods for space applications. Led portfolio of research in development of Additive Manufacturing for Space applications. Key contact for collaborations with start-ups and academia. Convened working groups to report results to ESA and industrial partners across Europe.

Research Associate

2021 - 2023

I2I Ideas2Impact Fellow, attending Strategy and Innovation courses from the Exec MBA Course. Organiser of the "SmartSpace" seminar series. Invited as project lead to investigate the space ecosystem in the UK, funded by the ESRC and UKSA.

Associate

2019 - 2022

Advised clients in the UK Aerospace & Defence sector on emerging technologies. Team Lead of project involved in the grant assessment process for a major international university.

DPhil Candidate

2017 - 2022

Directed 4 year project to develop methods for assessing advanced titanium alloys for Rolls-Royce plc. Awarded 3 year Industrial Fellowship from the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 to broaden research impact, worth £70,000. Wrote innovative software in MATLAB to enable overnight materials assessment, generating structure-property relationships 3000% faster than conventional methods. Led international project to halve experimental fatigue costs using Bayesian Optimisation. Invited to incorporate methodology into Rolls-Royce practice. Collaborated with researchers across 4 departments, 4 universities, and 2 continents, leading to 7 academic publications including in Acta Materialia. Presented findings to industrial colleagues and international conferences; awarded prizes for scientific presentation at Oxford Local IOM3 Young Members Lecture Competition, departmental Hetherington Prize, and the EIS 2021 Peter Watson Prize. -Placement at Rolls-Royce Derby & Singapore Analysed product safety and reliability data in advanced manufacturing methods. Integrated into advanced repair technology team, project managed for failure detection project leading to a departmental report, and collaborated with NTU to create novel test specimen geometry enabling additive manufacturing qualification.

President

2020 - 2021

Elected President of the leading university society on aerospace affairs. Governed and led committee of student volunteers. Secured recurring sponsorship from Reaction Engines ltd worth £100s. Coordinated transition to virtual events during COVID-19, hosting 24 events reaching ca. 10,000 views. Chaired discussions with Astronauts, Chiefs of Air staff, international \acr{CEO}s, and eminent researchers in aerospace. www.aerox.space

Consultant

2020 - 2020

Strategy consultant for a fin-tech start-up in an emerging East African market. Awarded "Best Consultant" in cohort of 80 consultants. Associate in OSG Digital course on Artificial Intelligence for strategic insights.