Research areas
Our research spans several key themes, aligned with UK Government research priorities, and has a strong emphasis on strengthening links between University researchers and the National Facilities at Harwell. Join us in shaping these areas and launching future work streams.
In addition to our own research activities, we provide technological resources to support collaborative programmes with Diamond Light Source, ISIS, the Central Laser Facility, Science and Technology Facility Council’s (STFC) Scientific Computing Department and other strategic partners, such as the Health and Safety Executive.
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Advanced manufacturing
How materials transform during modern manufacturing processes.
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Advanced materials
Focusing on microscale strain and phase transformation for alloys that contains metastable crystallography structure.
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Catalysis
Design and production of advanced novel catalytic materials.
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Electronic structure
Identifying the organisation of electrons in matter.
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Fusion
Carrying out research on new materials and manufacturing techniques for nuclear fusion applications.
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Invex imaging
Image reconstruction (restoration) enhanced by invex regularizers has a wide application in vision tasks such as computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging.
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Mineral physics
The properties of rocks and minerals at high pressure and temperature control the behaviour and response of the Earth over all time scales.
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Representation learning
Representation learning aims at extracting refined information from raw data.
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Resilience
Imaging safety-critical failure of materials containing high stored energy in order to identify potential mitigation mechanisms.
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Subsurface energy and storage
The transition of energy supply from mainly fossil sources to low carbon energy sources is essential for future environmental sustainability.
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Transverse axis
Material response to extreme conditions is key to many fundamental and applied sciences.
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