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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

Nanomechanical properties of bird feather rachises: exploring naturally occurring fibre reinforced laminar composites
Christian Laurent,
Colin Palmer,
Richard P. Boardman,
Gareth Dyke,
& Richard Cook
, 2014 , Journal of the Royal Society Interface , 11 (101) , 20140961
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2014.0961
Type: article
In situ 3-D observation of early strain localization during failure of thin Al alloy (2198) sheet
T.F Morgeneyer,
T. Taillandier-Thomas,
L. Helfen,
T. Baumbach,
I. Sinclair,
S. Roux,
& F. Hild
, 2014 , Acta Materialia , 69 , 78--91
DOI: 10.1016/j.actamat.2014.01.033
Type: article
The influence of toughening-particles in CFRPs on low velocity impact damage resistance performance
D.J. Bull,
A.E. Scott,
S.M. Spearing,
& I. Sinclair
, 2014 , Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing , 58 , 47--55
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesa.2013.11.014
Type: article
Fatigue micromechanism characterisation in carbon fibre reinforced polymers using synchrotron radiation computed tomography
S.C. Garcea,
M.N. Mavrogordato,
A.E. Scott,
I. Sinclair,
& S.M. Spearing
, 2014 , Composites Science and Technology , 99 , 23--30
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2014.05.006
Type: article
Influence of voids on damage mechanisms in carbon/epoxy composites determined via high resolution computed tomography
Anna Scott,
I. Sinclair,
Simon Mark Spearing,
Mark N. Mavrogordato,
& Warren Hepples
, 2014 , Composites Science and Technology , 90 , 147--153
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2013.11.004
Type: article