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Meet the team
Head of group

Dr Mark Whiting
Associate Professor of Metallurgy, Director of the Centre for Engineering Materials
Academic staff

Dr Mark Baker
Reader in Surface Science and Engineering

Professor James Castle
Emeritus Professor of Materials

Dr Tanmoy Chatterjee
Lecturer in Resilient Design

Professor Andrew Crocombe
Professor of Structural Mechanics

Professor Robert Dorey
Head of School of Mechanical Engineering Sciences, Professor of Nanomaterials

Professor Constantina Lekakou
Professor in Energy, Multiphase and Multifunctional Materials and Devices

Dr Iman Mohagheghian
Senior Lecturer

Dr Matthew Oldfield
Lecturer in Mechanical Engineering

Professor Paul Smith
Professor of Composite Materials
Dr Tan Sui
Senior Lecturer in Materials Engineering

Dr Andrew Viquerat
Senior Lecturer in Structural Mechanics

Professor John Watts
Professor of Materials Science
Research staff

Dr Marie-Laure Abel
Visiting Fellow
Technical staff

Dr Steven Hinder
Experimental Officer, Manager of the Surface Analysis Laboratory
Postgraduate research students

Timothy Belden
Postgraduate research student

Dimitrios Charaklias
Postgraduate Research Student

Gianluca De Zanet
Research Fellow/Postgraduate Research Student

Sophie Duong
Postgraduate Research Student

Filuta Ionescu
Postgraduate research student

Parham Mostofizadeh
Postgraduate research student

Tayyaba Rabnawaz
Postgraduate Research Student

Matthew Wearon
Postgraduate research student

Kit Willett
Postgraduate research student