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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
Abhishek Dixit
Postgraduate research student
Sophie Duong
Postgraduate Research Student
Stephen Garrett
Postgraduate research student
Filuta Ionescu
Postgraduate research student
Parham Mostofizadeh
Postgraduate research student
Jamie Parkes
Postgraduate research student
Tayyaba Rabnawaz
Postgraduate Research Student
Filipe Richheimer
Postgraduate research student
Matthew Wearon
Postgraduate research student
Kit Willett
Postgraduate research student