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

A robust approach for determination of the macro-porous volume fraction of soils with X-ray computed tomography and an image processing protocol
Samuel Keyes, R. Boardman, Alan Marchant, Tiina Roose & I. Sinclair, 2013, European Journal of Soil Science, 64(3), 298-307
DOI: 10.1111/ejss.12019
Type: article
High resolution synchrotron imaging of wheat root hairs growing in soil and image based modelling of phosphate uptake
Samuel Keyes, Keith R. Daly, Neil J. Gostling, Davey L. Jones, Peter Talboys, Bernd R. Pinzer, Richard Boardman, Ian Sinclair, Alan Marchant & Tiina Roose, 2013, New Phytologist, 198(4), 1023-1029
DOI: 10.1111/nph.12294
Type: article
White etching crack (WEC) investigation by serial sectioning, focused ion beam and 3-D crack modelling
M.-H. Evans, L. Wang, H. Jones & R.J.K. Wood, 2013, Tribology International
DOI: 10.1016/j.triboint.2013.03.022
Type: article
A comparison of multi-scale 3D X-ray tomographic inspection techniques for assessing carbon fibre composite impact damage
D.J. Bull, L. Helfen, I. Sinclair, S.M. Spearing & T. Baumbach, 2013, Composites Science and Technology, 75, 55-61
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2012.12.006
Type: article
Measurement of fibre waviness in industrial composite components
2012, Composites Science and Technology, 72(16), 1781-1792
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2012.09.001
Type: article