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EPSRC Core Equipment 2020

Staff

Lead researchers

Professor Mark Spearing

Vice-President (Research & Enterprise)
Connect with Mark

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

Other researchers

Professor Phillip Warwick

Associate Dean-Enterprise
Connect with Phillip

Email: pew2@soton.ac.uk

Dr Mark Light

Associate Professor
Research interests
  • Single crystal X-ray diffraction
  • Powder and materials X-ray diffraction
  • Total scattering and pair distribution function analysis
Connect with Mark

Email: M.E.Light@soton.ac.uk

Professor Blair Thornton

Professor of Marine Autonomy
Research interests
  • seafloor 3D visual reconstruction: development of deep-sea imaging hardware and processing pipelines for calibration, localisation and 3D mapping of the seafloor with full-field uncertainty characterisation 
  • automated interpretation of data: development of AI methods for rapid scalable interpretation of seafloor imagery
  • robotics: development of low-cost, long endurance seafloor imaging floats and highly intelligent and manoeuvrable robotic imaging platform for visual survey of complex environments
Connect with Blair

Email: B.Thornton@soton.ac.uk

Professor Hendrik Ulbricht

Professor of Physics
Research interests
  • Hendrik's main research interests concern experimental tests of fundamental theories of Nature by table-top experiments but also in space. Some tests are concerned with the large mass limit of the quantum superposition principle, which forms the basis of quantum mechanics. Other experiments are concerned with testing the interplay between quantum mechanics and gravitation in the low energy limit.
  • The Ulbricht group performs quantum experimental research on the preparation and analysis of massive systems in non-classical states by various techniques. They pioneer so-called levitated opto- and magneto-mechanics experiments, where light and magnetic fields are used to both trap and control nano- and micro-particles in vacuum. Please see the Ulbricht group webpages for more details.
Connect with Hendrik

Email: H.Ulbricht@soton.ac.uk

Dr Ioannis Zeimpekis

Associate Professor
Connect with Ioannis

Email: izk@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Research outputs

Large-area synthesis of high electrical performance MoS2 by a commercially scalable atomic layer deposition process
Nikolaos Aspiotis, Katrina Morgan, Benjamin März, Knut Müller-Caspary, Martin Ebert, Edwin Weatherby, Mark Light, Kevin Chung-Che Huang, Daniel W. Hewak, Sayani Majumdar & Ioannis Zeimpekis, 2023, npj 2D Mater Appl, 7
DOI: 10.1038/s41699-023-00379-z
Type: article