Meet the Team:
Richard Winpenny leads the research group in molecular nanomagnets; the group is a world-leader in this area with current EPSRC grants worth ca. £2.6 M and further funding from the European Commission (host for two Marie Curie Fellows starting in 2008, member of the NE MAGMANet, member of a FET-OPEN Integrated Project “MolSpinQIP”)
Thomas Thomson is a recent appointment as head of the EISS group and works on fundamental properties of novel nanomagnetic materials with potential for data storage applications. Prior to arriving in Manchester he was a Research Staff Member in the fundamental nanostructures group at the IBM Almaden Research Center and Hitachi San Jose Research Center. The group has obtained £1.8M of EPSRC funding for nanoscience related to data storage since 2000.
Jim Miles holds a current EPSRC grant on Bit Patterned Media for data storage, under which the group is fabricating sub-50nm pitch islands of high coercivity material, modeling and evaluating them for data storage. Jim works extensively with INSIC, the US based, industry funded consortium that co-ordinates academic research in data storage.
Ali Rezazadeh leads the Electromagnetic Centre for microwave and mm-wave design and applications covering all aspects of microwave circuit designs, modelling and high frequency measurements. The Centre is within the Microwave and Communication research group with combined current research grant of £3M.
Ian Kinloch holds an EPSRC/R.A.Eng Research Fellowship on “Nanotubes in Advanced Engineering Materials” and works on the production, processing, and applications of nanomaterials. His works includes composites, biomedical devices and nanotoxicology. He is a visiting researcher at the Tokyo Bio-Nano Electronics Research Centre in Japan.
Irina Grigorieva is a leading expert in mesoscopic superconductivity and experimental visualization of micro-magnetic structures and is especially well known for her studies of vortices in nano-structured superconductors. Her research has been supported by £730K EPSRC research grants and £420K platform grant.
Nicola Tirelli holds an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship and leads the Laboratory of Polymers and Biomaterials. His research (current EPSRC component of funding £600k) focuses on the application of nano-carriers and biomaterials to responsive release and tissue engineering.
Tony Freemont is Head of the School of Clinical & Laboratory Sciences and Professor of Osteoarticular Pathology. His research (current research portfolio of £1.5M, including industrial sponsors such as Arthrokinetics, and Pfizer) focuses on the molecular basis of diseases and on tissue regeneration and replacement, e.g. with in situ gelling nanoparticle formulations.
Vladimir Falko, together with Edward McCann and Vadim Cheianov have co-authored a series of papers laying foundations of theory of physical properties of graphene and transport in graphene-based devices. This includes the pioneering work on electronic structure of bilayer graphene, and theory of quantum transport in disordered graphene-based structures. Fal’ko’s earlier work was focused on spin effects in quantum dots and statistical properties of disordered systems. Falko runs an international series of Windsor Summer Schools on Condensed Matter Physics and Nanoscience (Windsor’99, ‘01, ‘04, ‘07, with two more planned for 2010 and 2012) and - together with Andre Geim – the annual ‘Graphene-Week’ Conference. Henning Schomerus leads the £1M Marie Curie Excellence Team ‘Nanoelectrophotonics’ which studies coherence effects in nanostructures and optical devices and systems. Colin Lambert works on quantum transport and molecular electronics (he coordinated Baisic Technology consortium on Carbon-Based Molecular Electronics). Lambert’s spin-off DFT-transport code SMEAGOL has become a productive numerical tool for more than 40 groups worldwide, and it is used to model transport in various molecular electronics devices, carbon nanotubes encapsulating metallocenes, atomic wires. The Centre holds over £2M of EPSRC grants, including the EPSRC Portfolio Partnership, and during the recent 4 years participated in 6 FP6-EC and ESF networks, three of which were Lancaster-led.