[1] Tunnicliffe is originally from the West Midlands in Staffordshire, England and grew up in the small village of Haughton.
He then worked in industry for three years, returning to graduate school and completing a Ph.D. in 2015[2] at Queen Mary University of London under advisors James Busfield and Alan G.
Tunnicliffe won a grant from USDA to investigate the application of cellulose nanoparticles in tires.
[4] His most cited academic work produced a method for simultaneous dielectric/dynamic mechanical characterization of a filled elastomer.
The technique produces information about the presence of dipoles on the polymer-filler interface,[5] useful in understanding origins of the Mullins and Payne effects.