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Lead researcher

Professor Ian Sinclair

Professor of Engineering Materials
Other researchers

Professor Simon Coles

Professor of Structural Chemistry

Research interests

  • Chemical Crystallography
  • Structures under change
  • Quantum Crystallography

Professor Mark Spearing

Vice-President (Research & Enterprise)

Emeritus Professor Chris Clayton

Professor Jeremy Frey

Professor of Physical Chemistry

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.

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Computational Systems Chemistry

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

Engineering Materials and Surface Engineering Group

Our research activities are often multidisciplinary involving collaborations with other research groups, Universities and industry partners.

Vision, Learning and Control

Our work covers a range of technological areas from control, to machine learning and computer vision.

Research outputs

Toughness and damage susceptibility in human cortical bone is proportional to mechanical inhomogeneity at the osteonal-level
Orestis L. Katsamenis,
Thomas Jenkins,
& Philipp J. Thurner
, 2015 , Bone , 76 , 158--168
DOI: 10.1016/j.bone.2015.03.020
Type: article
Interlaminar fracture micro-mechanisms in toughened carbon fibre reinforced plastics investigated via synchrotron radiation computed tomography and laminography
G. Borstnar,
M.N. Mavrogordato,
L. Helfen,
I. Sinclair,
& S.M. Spearing
, 2015 , Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing , 71 , 176--183
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesa.2015.01.012
Type: article
Investigation of the response to low velocity impact and quasi-static indentation loading of particle-toughened carbon-fibre composite materials
D.J. Bull,
S.M. Spearing,
& I. Sinclair
, 2015 , Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing , 74 , 38--46
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesa.2015.03.016
Type: article
In situ synchrotron tomographic evaluation of the effect of toughening strategies on fatigue micromechanisms in carbon fibre reinforced polymers
S.C. Garcea,
I. Sinclair,
& S.M. Spearing
, 2015 , Composites Science and Technology , 109 , 32--39
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2015.01.012
Type: article
High-resolution computed tomography reconstructions of invertebrate burrow systems
R. Hale,
R.P. Boardman,
M.N. Mavrogordato,
I. Sinclair,
T.J. Tolhurst,
& M. Solan
, 2015 , Scientific Data , 2 , 150052
DOI: 10.1038/sdata.2015.52
Type: article