Research Interest:

• Zirconium alloys
• Irradiation damage
• In-situ TEM characterization, deformation mechanism

Duties: Operating and maintaining RMTL facilities and equipment. Safety supervision and training.

Research Interest:

• Computational materials physics. The types of methods I use include:
• Atomistic simulation on short timescales (molecular dynamics)
• Atomistic simulations on long timescales (accelerated dynamics)
• Mesoscale simulations
• Classical force-field development, based on empirical data and quantum mechanics
• These simulations apply to materials such as:
• Metals and alloys
• Cements
• Oxides

Research Interest:

• Nuclear materials, characterization of radiation damage
• X-ray and neutron diffraction, Diffraction Line Profile Analysis (peak broadening analysis) (DLPA)
• Advanced synchrotron X-ray techniques: high-energy X-ray diffraction microscopy, micro-tomography
• Microstructure - mechanical property relations of structural materials
• Characterization of Additively Manufactured materials

Research Interests include:

• Radiation damage in nuclear reactor core materials and the development of improved materials to suit particular nuclear reactor applications.
• Development of techniques and methods to quantitatively characterise material microstructures before and after irradiation using transmission electron microscopes and X-ray diffraction facilities.
• Irradiation tests using electron, gamma, ion and neutron irradiation.
• Modelling irradiation deformation and mechanical property changes.

Research Interest:

• Performance of reactor components.

Research Interest:

• Ni-based superalloys, Oxide Dispersion-strengthened (ODS) Steels, Zr alloys, and other nuclear materials etc.
• Nanostructure characterization in metals
• Thin film coating technology
• Transmission electron microscopy imaging technology