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

Professor Mark Spearing

Vice-President (Research & Enterprise)
Connect with Mark

Email: S.M.Spearing@soton.ac.uk

Emeritus Professor Chris Clayton

Connect with Chris

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

Interleaving light veils to minimise the trade-off between mode-I interlaminar fracture toughness and in-plane properties
Santiago García-Rodríguez, Josep Costa Balanzat, Kathryn Rankin, Richard Boardman, Vicky Singery & Joan Mayugo Majo, 2020, Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 128
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesa.2019.105659
Type: article
Regulation of the bone vascular network is sexually dimorphic
Alice Goring, Aikta Sharma, Behazad Javaheri, Rosanna Smith, Janos Kanczler, Alan Boyde, Eric Hesse, Sumeet Mahajan, Bjorn Olsen, Andrew Pitsillides, Philipp Schneider, Richard Oreffo & Claire Clarkin, 2019, Journal of Bone and Mineral Research, 34(11), 2117-2132
DOI: 10.1002/jbmr.3825
Type: article
In situ statistical measurement of local morphology in carbon-epoxy composites using synchrotron X-ray computed tomography
Sebastian Rosini, Mark N. Mavrogordato, Olga Egorova, Emily S. Matthews, Samuel E. Jackson, S. Mark Spearing & Ian Sinclair, 2019, Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 125, 1-14
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesa.2019.105543
Type: article
Correlative X-ray and neutron tomography of root systems using cadmium fiducial markers
Thomas, James Clark, Genoveva Burca, Richard Boardman & Thomas Blumensath, 2019, Journal of Microscopy
DOI: 10.1111/jmi.12831
Type: article
X-ray micro-computed tomography for nondestructive three-dimensional (3D) x-ray histology
Orestis L Katsamenis, Michael Olding, Jane A Warner, David S Chatelet, Mark G Jones, Giacomo Sgalla, Bennie Smit, Oliver J Larkin, Ian Haig, Luca Richeldi, Ian Sinclair, Peter M Lackie & Philipp Schneider, 2019, The American Journal of Pathology, 189(8), 1608-1620
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2019.05.004
Type: article