Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Ian Sinclair

Professor of Engineering Materials
Connect with Ian

Email: I.Sinclair@soton.ac.uk

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).
Connect with Simon

Email: S.J.Coles@soton.ac.uk

Emeritus Professor Richard Oreffo DPhil DSc (Oxon) FMedSci FHEA FRSB FIOR

Research interests
  • Skeletal Regenerative MedicineSkeletal Stem Cells
Connect with Richard

Email: Richard.Oreffo@soton.ac.uk

Professor Mark Spearing

Vice-President (Research & Enterprise)
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Email: S.M.Spearing@soton.ac.uk

Emeritus Professor Chris Clayton

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Email: C.Clayton@soton.ac.uk

Professor Jeremy Frey

Professor of Physical Chemistry
Connect with Jeremy

Email: J.G.Frey@soton.ac.uk

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.
Connect with Mark

Email: msn@ecs.soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Three-dimensional assessment of low velocity impact damage in particle toughened composite laminates using micro-focus X-ray computed tomography and synchrotron radiation laminography
D.J. Bull, S.M. Spearing, I. Sinclair & L. Helfen, 2013, Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 52, 62-69
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesa.2013.05.003
Type: article
Quasi-static indentation and compression after impact damage growth monitoring using microfocus X-ray computed tomography
D.J. Bull, S.M. Spearing & I. Sinclair, 2013
Type: conference
Hygrothermal ageing of plant oil based marine composites
M. Malmstein, A.R. Chambers & J.I.R. Blake, 2013, Composite Structures, 101, 138-143
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2013.02.003
Type: article
Partial volume correction for approximating crack opening displacements in CFRP material obtained from micro-focus X-ray CT scans
D.J. Bull, I. Sinclair & S.M. Spearing, 2013, Composites Science and Technology, 81, 9-16
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2013.03.017
Type: article
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