Background

MA Class 1 in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University (1983), PhD in physics at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge (1987). Royal Society University Research Fellow, Cambridge (1989-1994). Joined Loughborough University in 1994 as Reader in Mechanical Engineering, appointed Professor of Applied Mechanics in 1999.

Research Groups

Optical Engineering

Research Interests and Activities

Development and application of speckle metrology techniques for displacement and strain mapping
Development of higher dimensional phase unwrapping algorithms
Development of phase contrast Optical Coherence Tomography techniques for depth-resolved strain mapping within scattering media
Phase contrast MRI for flow mapping in the human body
Development and application of techniques (Positron Emission, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) to probe the internal dynamics of granular materials
Finite element modelling of rapid granular flows

External Activities

• Editorial board membership: Optics and Lasers in Engineering, Journal of Holography and Speckle
• Professional affiliation: Fellow of the Institute of Physics
• International conferences: co-chair of Photomechanics 2006 (Clermont-Ferrand, France); Photomechanics 2008 (Loughborough, UK).
• Advisory roles: Member of Royal Society panel responsible for allocation of University Research Fellowships in Engineering and Chemistry
• Referee for Applied Optics, Optics Letters, Optical Engineering, Strain, Optics Communications, Engineering Fracture Mechanics, Experimental Mechanics
• Collaborative Research: development of phase contrast imaging techniques for MRI, with Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, and MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge.
• Spinout activity: co-founder and Technical Director of Loughborough University spinout Phase Vision Ltd (www.phasevision.com).

Awards

• Paterson Medal and Prize 2005, Institute of Physics
• Royal Society – Wolfson Merit award holder (2003-2008)
• Rank prize for best UK PhD thesis in Optoelectronics awarded to one of my research students (Russell Coggrave) in 2002

Publications

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Links

Structural Integrity Research Group