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

Ductile crack initiation and propagation assessed via in situ synchrotron radiation-computed laminography
T.F. Morgeneyer, L. Helfen, I. Sinclair, H. Proudhon, F. Xu & T. Baumbach, 2011, Scripta Materialia, 65(11), 1010-1013
DOI: 10.1016/j.scriptamat.2011.09.005
Type: article
Dry sliding friction and wear behaviour of an electron beam melted hypereutectic Al–Si alloy
J.C. Walker, J. Murray, S Narania & A.T. Clare, 2011, Tribology Letters
DOI: 10.1007/s11249-011-9865-8
Type: article
In situ fibre fracture measurement in carbon-epoxy laminates using high resolution computed tomography
A.E. Scott, Mark N. Mavrogordato, Peter Wright, I. Sinclair & S.M. Spearing, 2011, Composites Science and Technology, 71(12), 1471-1477
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2011.06.004
Type: article
Application of acoustic emission to detect damage mechanisms of particulate filled thermoset polymeric coatings in four point bend tests
2011, Surface and Coatings Technology, 205(23-24), 5478-5482
DOI: 10.1016/j.surfcoat.2011.06.021
Type: article
Taking tissue engineering principles into theatre: retrieval analysis from a clinically translated case
Alexander Aarvold, James O. Smith, Edward R Tayton, Simon Tilley, Jon I. Dawson, Stuart A. Lanham, Adam Briscoe, Douglas G. Dunlop & Richard O.C. Oreffo, 2011, Regenerative Medicine, 6(4), 461-467
DOI: 10.2217/rme.11.33
Type: article