Dr. Fergus Cuthill is Senior Experimental Officer and Manager of the FastBlade Structural Composites Research Facility at The University of Edinburgh. He is a Mechanical Engineer with a PhD in snow science and material engineering, completed from 2013 to 2017. He has been a Chartered Engineer with the IMechE since July 2021. After his PhD he was PDRA within the University of Edinburgh, Institute for Materials and Processes, working on two Wave Energy Scotland (WES) funded projects (ELASTO & ROTOHYBRID).

His role focused on the mechanical testing, analysis, and classification of novel materials for the potential use in wave energy devices with the aim of the research being a step change in the levelised cost of energy (LCOE). He then began work developing the FastBlade composite blade testing facility in 2018 as Experimental officer where he focussed on developing control and testing methodologies along with instrumentation and hydraulic setups. He has been FastBlade Manager & Senior Experimental Officer since early 2022 where he runs the day-to-day operations, testing and planning for the entire facility. Working with researchers to design experiments, managing the team of researchers and students working at FastBlade and supervising students (PhD and Masters).

His main areas of research interest are advanced sensors, measurement systems and experimental mechanics.