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Professor Richard Birmingham
 

Telephone:
(0191) 222 6722 (work)
e-mail:
r.w.birmingham@ncl.ac.uk
Specialist expertise:
  • Design for marine sustainability. Design of small craft such as fishing vessels, tugs, lifeboats, yachts etc
  • Safety of marine vehicles, including design for safety, and safety of high speed craft
  • Stability, including stability of craft such as fishing vessels, tugs, lifeboats, yachts etc
  • Traditional boatbuilding and development strategies for less developed regions

Professor Paul Christensen
 

Telephone:
(0191) 222 5472 (work)
e-mail:
paul.christensen@ncl.ac.uk
Specialist expertise:
  • Novel electrocatalytic methods for destroying pollutants, and aqueous-borne pathogens, including electrochemical ozone generation and novel, composite TiO2 electrodes
  • Clean power generation: development of direct methanol and hydrogen fuel cells
  • Development of rapid methods of assessing environmental stability of paints and plastics
  • Development of novel in-situ analytical methods for the study of the electroce/electrolyte interface including in-sit Fourier Transform Infra Red Spectroscopy

Professor Peter Cumpson
 

Telephone:
+44 (0)191 222 7911 (work)
e-mail:
peter.cumpson@ncl.ac.uk
Specialist expertise:
  • Engineering - Mechanical: Micro and Nanoparticles, materials for nanotechnology
  • Nanotechnology: Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) and chemical analysis of nanometre thin layers
  • MEMS: Microscopic sensors for medical and scientific measurement applications

Professor Kenneth Dalgarno
 

Telephone:
+44 (0)191 222 8554 (work)
e-mail:
kenny.dalgarno@ncl.ac.uk
Specialist expertise:
  • Engineering - Mechanical

Dr Patrick Degenaar
 

Telephone:
+44 (0)191 222 8917 (work)
e-mail:
patrick.degenaar@ncl.ac.uk
Specialist expertise:
  • Retinal prosthesis: using a mixture of gene therapy and advanced optoelectronics, the aim is to enable blind people suffering from Retinitis Pigmentosa see again.
  • Optogenetics: The use of gene therapy approaches to make nerve cells sensitive to light - useful for optical neuroprosthesis.
  • Neural Implants: general expertise in the wider field of neuroprosthesis including cochlear implants, vestibular prosthesis, spinal cord implants and pacemakers.
  • Implantable electronics: broad expertise in a wide range of implantable electronics such as implantable biosensors.

Dr Robert Frazer
 

Telephone:
+(0)191 222 6217 (work)
e-mail:
robert.frazer@ncl.ac.uk
Specialist expertise:
  • Gears: measurement, calibration, standards, failure analysis

Professor Geoff Gibson
 

Telephone:
+44 (0)191 222 8562 (work)
e-mail:
geoff.gibson@ncl.ac.uk
Specialist expertise:
  • Lightweight materials and structures; polymers, thermoplastics and thermosets
  • Composite materials and Offshore composites
  • Fibreglass; Pipes and vessels
  • Fire behaviour

Dr Sue Haile
 

Telephone:
+44 (0) 191 222 7279 (work)
e-mail:
sue.haile@ncl.ac.uk
Specialist expertise:
  • Monitoring of freshwater pollution
  • Freshwater ecology, life cycle assessment
  • Environmental management and waste minimisation within industry in industry
  • Clean technology in industry

Professor Adam Harvey
 

Telephone:
+44 (0)191 222 7268 (work)
e-mail:
adam.harvey@ncl.ac.uk
Specialist expertise:
  • Biofuels: particularly biodiesel, but also bioethanol, biobutanol etc
  • Process intensification: making processes and process technology smaller, safer and more efficient
  • Biorefining
  • Reactor engineering/catalysis

Professor Thomas Joyce
 

Telephone:
+44 (0)191 222 6214 (work)
e-mail:
thomas.joyce@ncl.ac.uk
Specialist expertise:
  • Total joint replacement
  • Examination of failed artificial joints
  • Metal-on-metal and hip resurfacing prostheses
  • Wear, friction and lubrication of natural and artificial joints

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