Thomas Benjamin Britton

Thomas Benjamin Britton CEng FIMMM (born 18 April 1985) is a materials scientist and engineer based at The University of British Columbia. He is a specialist in micromechanics, electron microscopy and crystal plasticity. In 2014 he was awarded the Silver Medal of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3), a society of which he then became a Fellow in 2016.

Britton has led outreach and engagement activity aimed at changing public perception about nuclear energy, and regularly blogs about early career academic life. He has appeared on the podcast Scientists Not the Science. As of 2017 he serves on the executive committee of Science is Vital, a grassroots campaign formed in 2010 to combat threats to the UK's research & development (R&D) budget. He is a trustee of the charity Pride in STEM, through which he was nominated for the Gay Times honours in 2017. He spoke at the Institute of Physics (IOP) pride of physics celebration in August 2018. In 2018, he was interviewed for Nature's podcast Working Scientist, where he spoke about the advantages of using online platforms that allowed academics to collaborate and exchange ideas more easily