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
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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

A joint row and column action method for cone-beam computed tomography
Yushan Gao & Thomas Blumensath, 2018, IEEE Transactions on Computational Imaging, 4(4), 599-608
DOI: 10.1109/TCI.2018.2857446
Type: article
Controlled release of 5-Fluorouracil from alginate beads encapsulated in 3D printed pH-responsive solid dosage forms
Christos I. Gioumouxouzis, Aikaterini-Theodora Chatzitaki, Christina Karavasili, Orestis L. Katsamenis, Dimitrios Tzetzis, Emmanouela Mystiridou, Nikolaos Bouropoulos & Dimitrios G. Fatouros, 2018, AAPS PharmSciTech, 19(8), 3362-3375
DOI: 10.1208/s12249-018-1084-2
Type: article
Strain accumulation and fatigue crack initiation at pores and carbides in a SX superalloy at room temperature
R. Jiang, D.J. Bull, A. Evangelou, A. Harte, F. Pierron, I. Sinclair, M. Preuss, X.T. Hu & P.A.S. Reed, 2018, International Journal of Fatigue, 114, 22-33
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2018.05.003
Type: article
X-ray computed micro-tomography of reticulated vitreous carbon
Luis F. Arenas, Richard P. Boardman, Carlos Ponce De Leon & Frank C. Walsh, 2018, Carbon, 135, 85-94
DOI: 10.1016/j.carbon.2018.03.088
Type: article
A practical procedure for measuring the stiffness of foam like materials
Alexander Marter, Alexander Dickinson, Fabrice Pierron & Martin Browne, 2018, Experimental Techniques, 42(4), 439-452
DOI: 10.1007/s40799-018-0247-0
Type: article
Benchmarking of strength models for unidirectional composites under longitudinal tension
Anthony Bunsell, Larissa Gorbatikh, Hannah Morton, Soraia Pimenta, Ian Sinclair, Mark Spearing, Yentl Swolfs & Alain Thionnet, 2018, Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 111, 138-150
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesa.2018.03.016
Type: article
Small airways disease in mild and moderate chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Hyun-Kyoung Koo, Dragos M. Vasilescu, Steven Booth, Aileen Hsieh, Orestis L. Katsamenis, Nick Fishbane, W. Mark Elliott, Miranda Kirby, Peter Lackie, Ian Sinclair, Jane A. Warner, Joel D. Cooper, Harvey O. Coxson, Peter D. Pare, James C. Hogg & Tillie-Louise Hackett, 2018, The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, 6(8), 591-602
DOI: 10.1016/S2213-2600(18)30196-6
Type: article