The Team

The people
behind the machine

Students from across the School of Engineering (mechanical, civil, electronic and more) building something none of us could build alone.

Leadership

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Founder · Project Lead

Alex McGinn

Founded Warwick Tunnelling to put a Warwick machine in Texas ground. Leads project direction, competition strategy and partnerships.

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Chief Engineer

Theo Boyle

Owns the technical integrity of the machine, from concept selection through to the final design package.

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Head of Operations

Lily Fraser

Keeps the team running: logistics, planning and the operational discipline behind everything we do.

Subsystem Teams

Every front, one dig

Cutterhead

Samuel

Leads the design of the cutting face, the part of the machine that meets the clay first.

Geotechnical

Lara

Characterising the competition ground and co-authoring the research that anchors the machine's design.

Electronics

Jimena & Ryan

Power, motor control and instrumentation, built to the industrial standards the competition site demands.

Systems Integration

Adnan

Makes sure five subsystems become one machine: interfaces, requirements and the discipline between them.

Operations

Gurjeevan

Site logistics and dig-day operations, turning an engineering project into a competition performance.

Visual Design

Rohyane

The team's visual identity, from the cutterhead mark to everything you're looking at right now.

Academic Support

Backed by the
School of Engineering

Warwick Tunnelling is supervised by Nikolaos Reppas of the University of Warwick School of Engineering, with laboratory access and academic collaboration supporting our geotechnical research programme.

Academic Supervisor

Nikolaos Reppas

School of Engineering, University of Warwick. Supervises the team's geotechnical research and academic output.

Your name here

We recruit from every discipline: engineering, computing, business, design. If you want to build something that ends up a metre underground in Texas, we want to hear from you.

Join the team