southampton

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Ian Sinclair

Professor of Engineering Materials

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Other researchers

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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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

Plant exudates may stabilize or weaken soil depending on species, origin and time

Muhammad Naveed, Lawrie Brown, Annette Raffan, Tim George, Anthony G. Bengough, Tiina Roose, Ian Sinclair, Nicolai Koebernick, Laura Cooper & Paul D. Hallett, 2017, European Journal of Soil Science, 68(6), 806-816

DOI: 10.1111/ejss.12487

Type: article

Simultaneous visualisation of calcified bone microstructure and intracortical vasculature using synchrotron X-ray phase contrast-enhanced tomography

Juan A. Nunez, Alice Goring, Eric Hesse, Philipp J. Thurner, Philipp Schneider & Claire E. Clarkin, 2017, Scientific Reports, 7

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-13632-5

Type: article

Rhizosphere-scale quantification of hydraulic and mechanical properties of soil impacted by root and seed exudates

M. Naveed, L.K. Brown, A.C. Raffan, T.S. George, A.G. Bengough, T. Roose, I. Sinclair, N. Koebernick, L. Cooper & P.D. Hallett, 2017, Vadose Zone Journal, 17(1), 1-12

DOI: 10.2136/vzj2017.04.0083

Type: article

Investigation of microvascular morphological measures for skeletal muscle tissue oxygenation by image-based modelling in 3D

Berit Zeller-Plumhoff, Keith Daly, Geraldine Clough, Philipp Schneider & Tiina Roose, 2017, Journal of the Royal Society Interface, 14(135)

DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2017.0635

Type: article

Characterisation of platinum electrodeposits on a titanium micromesh stack in a rectangular channel flow cell

Luis Fernando Arenas Martinez, Carlos Ponce De Leon, Richard P. Boardman & Frank C. Walsh, 2017, Electrochimica Acta, 247, 994-1005

DOI: 10.1016/j.electacta.2017.07.029

Type: article