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

Synergetic effects of thin plies and aligned carbon nanotube interlaminar reinforcement in composite laminates
Estelle Kalfon-cohen, Reed Kopp, Carolina Furtado, Xinchen Ni, Albertino Arteiro, Gregor Borstnar, Mark N. Mavrogordato, Ian Sinclair, S. Mark Spearing, Pedro P. Camanho & Brian L. Wardle, 2018, Composites Science and Technology
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2018.01.007
Type: article
Soft tissue 3D imaging in the lab through optimised propagation-based phase contrast computed tomography
Berit Zeller-Plumhoff, Joshua L. Mead, Deck Tan, Tiina Roose, Geraldine Clough, Richard Boardman & Philipp Schneider, 2017, Optics Express
DOI: 10.1364/OE.25.033451
Type: article
The potential of statistical shape modelling for geometric morphometric analysis of human teeth in archaeological research
Christopher Woods, Christianne Fernee, Martin Browne, Sonia Zakrzewski & Alexander Dickinson, 2017, PLoS ONE, 12(12)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0186754
Type: article
Characterization and mapping of rolling contact fatigue in rail-axle bearings
Ilaria Corni, Nicola Symonds, Christopher Birrell, Orestis L. Katsamenis, Adam Wasenczuk & David Vincent, 2017, Engineering Failure Analysis, 82, 617-630
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfailanal.2017.04.012
Type: article
Measurement of micro-scale soil deformation around roots using 4D synchrotron tomography and image correlation
Samuel Keyes, Laura Cooper, Nicolai Koebernick, Simon, Jack Duncan, Daniel, Marcus McKay Fletcher, Callum, Paul Scotson, Arjen Van Veelen, Ian Sinclair & Tiina Roose, 2017, Journal of the Royal Society Interface
DOI: 10.1098/rsif.2017.0560
Type: article