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

High-resolution synchrotron imaging shows that root hairs influence rhizosphere soil structure formation
Nicolai Koebernick, Keith Daly, Samuel Keyes, TImothy S. George, Lawrie Brown, Annette Raffan, Laura Cooper, Muhammad Naveed, Anthony G. Bengough, Ian Sinclair, Paul D. Hallett & Tiina Roose, 2017, New Phytologist
DOI: 10.1111/nph.14705
Type: article
Application of X-Ray microtomography to evaluate complex microstructure and predict the lower bound fatigue potential of cast Al–7(0.7)Si–4Cu–3Ni–Mg alloys
Thomas O. Mbuya, Ian Sinclair, Katherine Soady & Philippa Reed, 2017, Advanced Engineering Materials
DOI: 10.1002/adem.201700218
Type: article
Elastic modulus varies along the bovine femur
Sabah Nobakhti, Orestis L. Katsamenis, Nizar Zaarour, Georges Limbert & Philipp J. Thurner, 2017, Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 71, 279-285
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmbbm.2017.03.021
Type: article
Mapping fibre failure in situ in carbon fibre reinforced polymers by fast synchrotron X-ray computed tomography
Serafina, Consuelo Garcea, Ian Sinclair, Simon Spearing & P.J. Withers, 2017, Composites Science and Technology
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2017.06.006
Type: article
Phase contrast synchrotron radiation computed tomography of muscle spindles in the mouse soleus muscle
Berit Zeller-Plumhoff, Tiina Roose, Mark Mavrogordato, Orestis Katsamenis, Christopher Torrens, Philipp Schneider & Geraldine Clough, 2017, Journal of Anatomy, 230(6), 859-865
DOI: 10.1111/joa.12606
Type: article