Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Timothy Leighton FRS FREng FMedSci ScD

Professor of Ultrasonics
Connect with Timothy

Email: T.G.Leighton@soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Professor Robert Eason

Connect with Robert

Email: rwe@orc.soton.ac.uk

Emeritus Professor George Attard

Research interests

  • the primary focus of my research is on understanding the fundamental properties and behaviour of complex chemical systems;
  • the discovery that certain types of naturally-occuring glycosides, when formulated to produce self-assembled nanoparticles are potent modulators of immune responses;
  • the discovery that lyotropic liquid crystalline phases can be used as templates for the synthesis of nanostructured mesoporous oxides, semiconductors and metals, which led to the foundation of Nanotecture PLC, a University spin-out;
Connect with George

Email: gza@soton.ac.uk

Professor Robert Wood

Professor of Surface Engand Tribology

Research interests

  • the application of lubrication, wear and friction science
  • current and next generation critical machine components (bearings, transmissions, turbines, pumps)
  • renewable energy systems
Connect with Robert

Email: r.wood@soton.ac.uk

Professor Robert Read

Chair of Infectious Diseases
Connect with Robert

Email: R.C.Read@soton.ac.uk

Professor Charles Keevil

Professor In Environmental Health Care
Connect with Charles

Email: C.W.Keevil@soton.ac.uk

Professor Emma Roe

Professor of More-Than-Human Geographies
Connect with Emma

Email: E.J.Roe@soton.ac.uk

Professor Jeremy Frey

Professor of Physical Chemistry
Connect with Jeremy

Email: J.G.Frey@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Acoustics Group

Our group’s research topics range from the protection of marine mammals to the medical use of ultrasonics and the environmental effects of aircraft noise.

Computational Systems Chemistry

Our research covers a broad range of domains from nanoscale materials properties, atmospheric chemistry, through to biological systems.

Microbiology

We work on topics like patient treatment regimens, catheter design and management, and surgical instrument decontamination.

Nanophotonics Group

We perform fundamental optical physics and materials research. This is critical for the discovery and development of new and improved optoelectronic technologies.

Research outputs

A rapid diagnostic test for human Visceral Leishmaniasis using novel Leishmania antigens in a laser direct-write lateral flow device
Maria Humbert, Lourena Emanuele Costa, Ioannis Katis, Fernanda Fonseca Ramos, Amanda Sanchez Machado, Collin Sones, Eduardo Antonio Ferraz Coelho & Myron Christodoulides, 2019, Emerging Microbes and Infections, 8(1), 1178-1185
DOI: 10.1080/22221751.2019.1635430
Type: article
Mapping microbial stories: creative microbial aesthetic and cross-disciplinary intervention in understanding nurses’ infection prevention practices
Emma Roe, Charlotte Veal & Paul Hurley, 2019, Geo: Geography and Environment, 6(1)
DOI: 10.1002/geo2.76
Type: article
Rapid multiplexed detection on lateral-flow devices using a laser direct-write technique
Peijun He, Ioannis Katis, Robert Eason & Collin L Sones, 2018, Biosensors
DOI: 10.3390/bios8040097
Type: article
Structure of the recombinant Neisseria gonorrhoeae adhesin complex protein (rNg-ACP) and generation of murine antibodies with bactericidal activity against gonococci
Hannia, Liliana Almonacid Mendoza, Maria Humbert, Aiste Dijokaite, David Cleary, Yiwen Soo, Miao-chiu Hung, Christian M. Orr, Ivo Tews & Moritz M. Machelett, 2018, mSphere, 10(3), 1-25
DOI: 10.1128/mSphere.00331-18
Type: article
Acoustic radiation force on a parametrically distorted bubble
A.O. Maksimov & T.G. Leighton, 2018, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 143(1), 296-305
DOI: 10.1121/1.5020786
Type: article