Crowcon Detection Instruments has appointed Stefan Kukula as its new technical director
Stefan Kukula joins Crowcon from Morgan Crucible, where he developed products based on materials technology and advanced engineering in fields as diverse as fire protection, casting processes and electronic devices.
Prior to that he was head of the CAE team at Dyson.
Before joining Dyson Kukula spent six years with Kobe Steel in Japan, where he set up and managed a team doing consultancy design analysis for clients such as Nokia, IBM Japan, Sony, Casio, Acer, Apple and Singer Industries.
He was the first foreign employee of Kobe Steel to receive the President's Gold Award.
Stefan, who speaks fluent Japanese, has an engineering degree from Cambridge University, as well as an MSc in composite materials and a PhD in engineering, both from Imperial College, London.
