Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Ian Sinclair

Professor of Engineering Materials
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Other researchers

Professor Simon Coles

Professor of Structural Chemistry

Research interests

  • The work we do is highly collaborative and multidisciplinary and can broadly be split into three overlapping themes:
  • 1) National Crystallography Service (NCS, www.ncs.ac.uk) & Physical Sciences Data-science Service (PSDS, www.psds.ac.uk) These national centres provide centralised facilities for UK researchers at a level that is beyond that achievable in any single institution. The NCS provides data collection and crystal structure analysis for the UK chemistry community. It also performs projects based on more advanced techniques, involving a dedicated team of experts employing cutting edge techniques and the use of very high-powered laboratory diffractometers or the UK synchrotron, Diamond. The PSDS provides national-level access to databases and is building infrastructure on top of these to drive and support data-driven approaches to scientific discovery.
  • 2) Structural Chemistry We have an interest in determining the mechanisms of solid-state reactions and transformations and use a variety of diffraction and physical characterisation methods for this. Other work focuses on discovering and investigating structure-property relationships, the determination of charge densities and their properties and 'value-added' quantum mechanical calculations to compute properties from crystal structures. We also collaborate with other disciplines in a number of areas such as macromolecular crystallography (Biology), crystal growth (biology) and CT imaging (Engineering).
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Professor Mark Spearing

Vice-President (Research & Enterprise)
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Emeritus Professor Chris Clayton

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Professor Jeremy Frey

Professor of Physical Chemistry
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Emeritus Professor Mark Nixon

Research interests

  • My research interests are in image processing and computer vision.
  • I have helped to develop new techniques for static and moving shape extraction (both parametric and non-parametric) which have found application in automatic face and automatic gait recognition and in medical image analysis.
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Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Inverse finite element modeling for characterization of local elastic properties in image-guided failure assessment of human trabecular bone
2015, Journal of Biomechanical Engineering, 137(1), 1-9
DOI: 10.1115/1.4028991
Type: article
Nanomechanical properties of bird feather rachises: exploring naturally occurring fibre reinforced laminar composites
Christian Laurent, Colin Palmer, Richard P. Boardman, Gareth Dyke & Richard Cook, 2014, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 11(101), 20140961
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2014.0961
Type: article
X-ray tomography for structural analysis of microstructured and multimaterial optical fibers and preforms
S.R. Sandoghchi, G. Jasion, N.V. Wheeler, S. Jain, Z. Lian, J.P. Wooler, R.P. Boardman, N. Baddela, Y. Chen, J. Hayes, E. Numkam Fokoua, T. Bradley, D.R. Gray, S.M. Abokhamis Mousavi, M. Petrovich, F. Poletti & D.J. Richardson, 2014, Optics Express, 22(21), 26181-26192
DOI: 10.1364/OE.22.026181
Type: article
Characterizations of how species mediate ecosystem properties require more comprehensive functional effect descriptors
R. Hale, M.N. Mavrogordato, T.J. Tolhurst & M. Solan, 2014, Scientific Reports, 4, 6463
DOI: 10.1038/srep06463
Type: article
Numerical modelling of thermal decomposition processes and associated damage in carbon fibre composites
R.D. Chippendale, I.O. Golosnoy & P. Lewin, 2014, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 47(38)
DOI: 10.1088/0022-3727/47/38/385301
Type: article