Advanced Thermal and Fire Protection for Aerospace and Automotive Applications With LMPAEK Unidirectional Tapes

Peter Levesque has been designing and engineering innovative composite solutions for 18 years. His contributions range from round-the-world racing yacht design and underwater exploration to space and commercial aviation applications. Peter has helped found two composite parts manufacturing businesses and currently leads a team of application design engineers in finding novel ways to leverage Victrex’s LMPAEK polymer in thermoplastic composites.

Gilles Larroque joined Victrex in 2011; he is in charge of the strategic marketing activity for the aerospace business unit. Prior to joining Victrex, Gilles worked in the medical devices industry for Zimmer Spine from 2005 to 2011 in product development for spinal applications. He started his career in 2001 as an R&D mechanical engineer consultant in various positions in aerospace and defense sectors.  Gilles graduated with an engineer degree in mechanical system from the University of Technology in Troyes, France in 2001. Starting in 1999, he also graduated with a master’s degree in engineering from Florida Atlantic University in the U.S. in 2001.

Petros is an aerospace engineer with postgraduate studies in composite materials and a Ph.D. in nanocomposite materials. For the last 15 years, he has been at the forefront of civil and military aerospace composite materials and structures. In his career, he has worked with all the major aerospace customers for the certification and qualification of composite materials including technical support for composite materials already in service. Moreover, he has developed high-temperature composite aerospace parts, including their automated manufacturing process and post-processing procedures. He is an experienced evaluator of technical and scientific proposals both at the national and European levels. The last two years he has been a member of the Victrex team based in the U.K., where he leads the development of materials and processes and progressing through technology readiness level (TRL) phases with aerospace customers, including technical feasibility assessments on strategic portfolio projects.