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Lead researcher

Professor Timothy Leighton FRS FREng FMedSci ScD

Professor of Ultrasonics
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Email: T.G.Leighton@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Robert Eason

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Email: rwe@orc.soton.ac.uk

Emeritus Professor George Attard

Research interests

  • the primary focus of my research is on understanding the fundamental properties and behaviour of complex chemical systems;
  • the discovery that certain types of naturally-occuring glycosides, when formulated to produce self-assembled nanoparticles are potent modulators of immune responses;
  • the discovery that lyotropic liquid crystalline phases can be used as templates for the synthesis of nanostructured mesoporous oxides, semiconductors and metals, which led to the foundation of Nanotecture PLC, a University spin-out;
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Email: gza@soton.ac.uk

Professor Robert Wood

Professor of Surface Engand Tribology

Research interests

  • Professor Robert Wood has research interests that span the application of lubrication, wear and friction science to current and next generation critical machine components such as bearings, transmissions, turbines, pumps, renewable energy systems and electrification of transportation. His research projects look at detecting wear, corrosion, friction and lubrication using these measurements to improve condition monitoring of machines including EVs and aeroengine fan blades and to optimise surface engineering for extended service life, energy efficiency and to drive tribology based digital twins and machine learning development.
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Email: r.wood@soton.ac.uk

Professor Robert Read

Chair of Infectious Diseases
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Email: R.C.Read@soton.ac.uk

Professor Charles Keevil

Professor In Environmental Health Care
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Email: C.W.Keevil@soton.ac.uk

Professor Emma Roe

Professor of More-Than-Human Geographies
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Email: E.J.Roe@soton.ac.uk

Professor Jeremy Frey

Professor of Physical Chemistry
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Email: J.G.Frey@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Acoustics Group

Our group’s research topics range from the protection of marine mammals to the medical use of ultrasonics and the environmental effects of aircraft noise.

Computational Systems Chemistry

Our research covers a broad range of domains from nanoscale materials properties, atmospheric chemistry, through to biological systems.

Microbiology

We work on topics like patient treatment regimens, catheter design and management, and surgical instrument decontamination.

Nanophotonics Group

We perform fundamental optical physics and materials research. This is critical for the discovery and development of new and improved optoelectronic technologies.

Research outputs

Bactericidal effect of ultrasound-responsive microbubbles and sub-inhibitory gentamicin against Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms on substrates with differing acoustic impedance
Filip Plazonic, Gareth WE Lutheryn, Charlotte Hind, Melanie Clifford, M. Gray, Eleanor Stride, Peter Glynne-Jones, Martyn Hill & Dario Carugo, 2022, Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology, 48(9), 1888-1898
DOI: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2022.05.019
Type: article
A proof‐of‐concept study of the removal of early and late phase biofilm from skin wound models using a liquid acoustic stream
T.J. Secker, Christopher, Charles Harling, Chloe Hand, David Voegeli, David Voegeli, Charles Keevil & Timothy Leighton, 2022, International Wound Journal, 19(8), 2124-2135
DOI: 10.1111/iwj.13818
Type: article
Laser-patterned paper-based flow-through filters and lateral flow immunoassays to enable the detection of C-reactive protein
Panagiotis Galanis, Ioannis Katis, Peijun He, Alice Iles, Anto J.U. Kumar, R.W. Eason & Collin Sones, 2021, Talanta, 238
DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2021.123056
Type: article
Capillary-based reverse transcriptase loop-mediated isothermal amplification for cost-effective and rapid point-of-care COVID-19 testing
Anto John, Peijun He, Ioannis Katis, Panagiotis Galanis, Alice Iles, R.W. Eason & Collin Sones, 2021, Analytica Chimica Acta, 1185
DOI: 10.1016/j.aca.2021.339002
Type: article
Optimization of flow path parameters for enhanced sensitivity lateral flow devices
Alice Iles, Peijun He, Ioannis Katis, Peter Horak, R.W. Eason & Collin Sones, 2021, Talanta, 248
DOI: 10.1016/j.talanta.2022.123579
Type: article