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

Three dimensional imaging of paraffin embedded human lung tissue samples by micro-computed tomography
A.E. Scott, D.M. Vasilescu, K.A.D. Seal, S.D. Keyes, M.N. Mavrogordato, J.C. Hogg, I. Sinclair, J.A. Warner, T.L. Hackett & P.M. Lackie, 2015, PLoS ONE, 10(6)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0126230
Type: article
On crack initiation in notched, cross-plied polymer matrix composites
Q.D. Yang, D. Schesser, M. Neiss, P. Wright, M.N. Mavrogordata, I. Sinclair, S.M. Spearing & B.N. Cox, 2015, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 78, 314-332
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmps.2015.01.010
Type: article
Interlaminar fracture micro-mechanisms in toughened carbon fibre reinforced plastics investigated via synchrotron radiation computed tomography and laminography
G. Borstnar, M.N. Mavrogordato, L. Helfen, I. Sinclair & S.M. Spearing, 2015, Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing, 71, 176-183
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesa.2015.01.012
Type: article
In situ synchrotron tomographic evaluation of the effect of toughening strategies on fatigue micromechanisms in carbon fibre reinforced polymers
S.C. Garcea, I. Sinclair & S.M. Spearing, 2015, Composites Science and Technology, 109, 32-39
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2015.01.012
Type: article
Modelling in vivo action potential propagation along a giant axon
Stuart George, Jamie M. Foster & Giles Richardson, 2015, Journal of Mathematical Biology, 70(1-2), 237-263
DOI: 10.1007/s00285-013-0751-x
Type: article