Jon Hughes
Wednesday, 7 May 2025
Jon Hughes is a Senior Scientist at the National Physical Laboratory. He has worked in the field of materials testing for around 15 years and has specialised in the testing of composites. From 2016 to 2018, Jon worked at Red Bull Racing and developed and tested carbon fibre composites for the RB12, RB13 and RB14 Formula 1 cars. Jon re-joined the National Physical Laboratory in 2018 where he has helped take typical non-contact materials test techniques such as Digital Image Correlation out of the laboratory and into the field, where it is used to monitor large structures such as railway tunnels and nuclear infrastructure.