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I. Sinclair, Multiscale and In Situ Laboratory X-Ray Computed Tomography National Research Facility

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Lead researcher:
Professor Ian Sinclair
Other researchers:
Professor Simon Cox,
Professor Thomas Blumensath
Research funder:
EPSRC
Status:
Active

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Ian Sinclair

Professor of Engineering Materials

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Other researchers

Professor Simon Cox

Professor of Computational Methods

Research interests

  • My research focusses on computational tools, technologies and platforms and how they enable interdisciplinary problems to be solved in engineering and science.His team in the Computational Engineering and Design Group is applying and developing high performance and cloud computing in a variety of collaborative interdisciplinary computational science and engineering projects. These include:
  • High Performance and novel Computing SystemsCloud Computing and commercial distributed computing - which led to a spin out companyApplied computational algorithms Computational electromagnetics– which led to the formation of a spin-off company.New algorithms such as meshless methods and fast solvers.Data Management Simon is also Director of the Microsoft Institute for High Performance computing where he demonstrates why, where and how current and future Microsoft tools and technologies can be exploited to enable engineering and scientific research to deliver faster, cheaper and better results.

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Professor Thomas Blumensath

Professor

Research interests

  • I work on the development and study of advanced algorithms that can solve challenging inverse problems by efficiently exploiting complex prior information. Using techniques from mathematics, statistics and machine learning, my work concentrates primarily on problems in x-ray tomographic image reconstruction and modelling, working closely with state-of-the-art imaging facilities (µ-VIS, the National Research Facility in Lab-based XCT, the UK’s synchrotron facility at the Diamond Light Source, and ISIS neutron imaging beamline) to find practical solutions to a range of important scientific problems from plant science to manufacturing.

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Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Engineering Materials and Surface Engineering Group

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

Computational Engineering and Design Group

Computational Engineering and Design research group is a centre for multidisciplinary engineering simulation and design, combining a range of analytical, computational and experimental techniques.

Bioengineering Group

We apply engineering principles to the fields of biology and healthcare.

Signal Processing Audio and Hearing Group

Our aims are to understand and develop technological innovation in complex signaling and human acoustics.

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