Dr. Adrian Boyd is a senior lecturer in Biomaterials and Surface Science in the School of Engineering at Ulster University and has research interests in additive manufacturing of high-temperature thermoplastics, coating technologies and surface science, calcium phosphate biomaterials and resorbable magnesium alloys. He also has extensive expertise in surface science and spectroscopy, namely, X-Ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy (XPS), Raman and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), X-Ray Diffraction (XRD) and Time of Flight Secondary Ion Mass Spectrometry (ToFSIMS).

Adrian was awarded his primary degree in Applied Biochemical Sciences in 1996 from The Faculty of Science (Ulster University) and then received his PhD in Biomaterials Science from the Faculty of Computing and Engineering (Ulster University) in 2000. He spent a period in Industry working on the development of Raman spectrometers with Avalon Instruments before returning to Ulster University in 2003.

He is a leading member of the Advanced Future Materials and Manufacturing Group in the School of Engineering at Ulster University. He is President and a council member of the UK Society for Biomaterials (UKSB), A council Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry Biomaterials Special Interest Group and a member of the British Standards Institute (BSI) Materials for Surgical Implants Committee (CH/150/1). He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC), a fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), a member of Engineer's Ireland Academic Society, acting chair of the Engineer’s Ireland Gender Diversity Sub-committee, and a past president, secretary and treasurer of the Northern Ireland Biomedical Engineering Society (NIBES).

Recent funded work is in the area of 3D printing of high temperature thermoplastics, 3D Bioprinting for Cardiac Tissue Models,  the coating of resorbable magnesium alloys for orthopaedics and the development of biomedical sensors and has received funding through the RAE, EPSRC, INTEREG VA, Invest NI, DELNI, and the Royal Society. Many of these projects involve close collaborations with industry and international partners.