Roger Reed is a Professor of Engineering Science and Materials at the University of Oxford. He works at Oxford's Begbroke Science Park, and is associated with its Departments of Engineering Science and Materials. He is a Fellow at St. Anne's College, Oxford.
Reed was born in Catford in south-east London and educated at Dulwich College and Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge. He has held academic positions at Imperial College London, University of Cambridge, the University of British Columbia (UBC) in Canada and more recently the University of Birmingham, prior to his current position at University of Oxford.
During the period 1994 to 2002 whilst at the University of Cambridge, Reed helped to establish the Rolls-Royce University Technology Centre in the Dept of Materials Science and Metallurgy. During the period 2002 to 2005, he lived in Vancouver on the west coast of Canada where he held a Canada Research Chair at UBC. During the period 2006 to 2012 he worked in the Dept of Metallurgy and Materials at the University of Birmingham, where he acted as Director of Research and was involved in setting up the Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) at Ansty, Warwickshire. He moved to Oxford in 2013. He holds a visiting position at The Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung, Düsseldorf, Germany.