Materials and Design
BEng (J591), BEng (J590)
There are 82 members of academic staff teaching within the School of Engineering and Materials Science. Below are the organisers of the specialist Materials and Design modules:
Module Organisers
| Name | Position / Expertise | Modules |
Dr Russell Binions M.Sci (Hons), Ph.D., CChem, CSci, Prof Grad IMMM | Lecturer in Functional Materials Chemical Vapour Deposition, Functional Metal Oxide Films, Metal Oxide Semiconductor Gas Sensors, Chromogenic Materials, Photocatalysis, Nanocomposite Thin Films | MAT500 |
Dr James Busfield MA, PhD, FHEA, FIMMM, CEng | Reader in Materials and Director of External Relations Rubber Research Group, finite element analysis, polymer materials | MAT106 |
Dr Andy Bushby BSc, PhD | Reader in Materials Nanoindentation, Micro-mechanics, Biological materials Director of The NanoVision Centre for microscopy | MAT308 |
Dr Steve Dunn CEng, BSc (Hons), MSc, PhD (MInstP, FION, FIMMM, FHEA) | Reader in Nanoscale Materials/Director of Admissions functional (ferroelectric) materials, photochemistry of functional materials, nanostructured PV devices, energy harvesting, nanostructured materials, solar energy | MAT427 |
Dr Julien Gautrot PhD | Lecturer in Biomaterials Synthesis and characterisation of biomaterials. Micro- and nano-patterning. Bio-interfaces. Stem cell biology. | MAT106 |
Dr Himadri Gupta | Lecturer in Biomaterials | MAT308 |
Dr Henri Huijberts MSc PhD(Twente, Netherlands) CMath FIMA SMIEEE | Reader in Control & Dynamics & Director of Taught Programmes Nonlinear control systems, nonlinear dynamics, chaos, synchronisation, robotics, time-delay systems, power control in ad-hoc networks, traffic dynamics | MAT500 |
Prof Ton Peijs BSc, PhD | Professor of Materials and Director of Research Polymer nanotechnology, composite materials, nanocomposites, high-performance fibres, biobased materials. | MAT507 |
Dr Magdalena Titirici PhD | Reader in Materials Science Porous Materials, Green Materials Synthesis, Hydrothermal Carbonisation, Supercapacitors, Electrocatalysis, Chromatography | MAT427 MAT507 |
Dr Haixue Yan PhD | Academic Fellow Ceramics Processing and Characterizations, Spark Plasma Sintering, Nano, Ferroelectrics and Piezoelectrics | MAT321 |