Staff profiles
Core staff
Professor Chris Care - Director
Heads of research centres
- Polymers, Nanocomposites and Modelling Research Centre - Professor Chris Breen
- Thin Films Research Centre - Professor Papken Hovsepian
- Centre for Automation and Robotics Research - Dr Jacques Penders
- Structural Materials and Integrity Research Centre - Professor Robert Akid
Consultancy team
Dr Nick Farmilo - Commercial manager
- Robert Burton
- Dr Fabio Caparrelli
- Dr Iain Fielden
- Clare Jeavons
- Dr Hywel Jones
- Salah Karout
- Dr Quanshun Luo
- Stephen McKibbin
- Subodh Sabnis
- Dr Chris Sammon
- Darren Swinson
- Deeba Zahoor
Placement students
Jamie Boulding - electron microscopy technical support
Phone 0114 225 3474
E-mail j.boulding@shu.ac.uk
Hannah Crofts - marketing assistant
Phone 0114 225 2017
E-mail h.crofts@shu.ac.uk
Karan Kaur - business support
Phone 0114 225 2017
E-mail k.kaur@shu.ac.uk
Matthew Kitchen - assistant engineer
Phone 0114 225 3500
E-mail m.kitchen@shu.ac.uk
Business support team
Jane Wright - Senior officer
Administrative staff
- Jennie Harrison - Project administrator
- Gillian Hill - Senior administrator and PA to Director
- Rachael Ogden - Senior administrator
- Indira Samaraweera - Administrator/receptionist
- Danny Weston - Administrator
Research staff
- Professor John Atkinson - Senior academic
- Dr Vesna Milanovic - research fellow
Staff by research group
Advanced Composites and Coatings Research Centre
Polymers, Composites and Spectroscopy
- Professor Chris Breen - Head of Group
- Professor Jack Yarwood - Research fellow
- Dr Leon Black - Research fellow
- Dr Francis Clegg - Research fellow
- Dr Xiaohui Lui - Research fellow
- Dr Chris Sammon - Research fellow
- Dr Steve Spells - Senior lecturer
Nanotechnology Centre for PVD Research
- Dr Nick Farmilo - Commercial manager
- Dr Arutiun Ehiasarian - Reader
- Gary Robinson - Principal technician
- Ante Hecimovic - PhD student
- GK Kamath - PhD student
- Dr Yashodhan Purandare - Research fellow
Thin Films Research Centre
Semiconductor characterisation for next generation devices
- Dr Karen Vernon-Parry - Senior lecturer
- Professor Papken Hovsepian - Head of Centre
- Dr Aseel Kadhim Hassan - Senior lecturer
- Dr Alexei Nabok - Senior lecturer
Photovoltaics - Solar Energy Group
- Professor I M Dharmadasa - Principal investigator
- Dr Anura P Samantilleke - Post-doctoral research staff
- Dr Nandu B Chaure - Post-doctoral research staff
- Fang Tian - Post-doctoral research staff
Theory of semiconductor materials and optics
- Professor Mauro F Pereira - Professor
- Dr Tim Schmielau - Research fellow
Materials and Fluid Flow Modelling Group
- Professor Doug Cleaver - Head of Group
- Dr Ian Halliday - Reader
- Dr Tim Spencer - Research fellow
- Dr Sergey Lishchuk - Research fellow
- Pavel Prybytak - PhD student
Bridging the Gap
- Dr Vesna Milanovic - Research fellow
Centre for Automation and Robotics Research
Mobile Machines and Vision Laboratory
- Hussein Abdul-Rachman - Research assistant
- Dr Lyuba Alboul - Senior research fellow
- Georgios Chliveros - Post-doctoral research assistant
- Joao Duro - Researcher
- Abbas Hashim - Researcher
- Alan Holloway - Lecturer
- Salah Karout - Research associate
- Stephen Paul Mckibbin - Research associate
- Amirmohammad Naghsh - Researcher
- Jacques Penders - Head of Centre
- Arul Nirai Selvan - Associate lecturer
- Dr Jon Travis - Reader
- Jan Wedekind - Research associate
- Danny L Weston - Research assistant/administrator
- Juan Saez-Pons - PhD student
- Stephen Tan Kang Song - PhD student
- Farah Q. Al-Khalidi - PhD student
- Kim Chuan Lim - PhD student
Systems Modelling and Integration - Sheaf Solutions
- Dr Ivan Basarab-Horwath - Senior lecturer
- Dr Ken Dutton - Principal lecturer
- Dr Martin Howarth - Principal lecturer
- Claire Jeavons
- Jim Marsh - Senior lecturer
- Professor Terrence Perera - Head of program area
- Professor Sameh Saad - professor of enterprise modelling and management
- Dr David Clegg - Senior lecturer
Structural Materials and Integrity Research Centre
- Professor Robert Akid - Head of Group
- Dr David Greenfield - Research fellow
- Dr Angelo Maligno - Senior lecturer
- Dr Alan Smith - Senior lecturer
- Dr Syed Hasan - Senior lecturer
Centre for Corrosion Technology
- Professor Robert Akid - Head of Group
- Dr David Greenfield - Research fellow
- Dr Heming Wang - Research fellow
- Dr Oliver Lewis - Research associate
Centre for Infrastructure Management
- Professor Pal Mangat - Director of Centre
- Professor Paul Lambert - Royal Society Industry Fellow
- Dr Fin O'Flaherty - Sector manager
- Dr Elizabeth Laycock - Sector manager
- Dr Feti Al-Shawi - Project manager
- Dr Jamal Khatib - Project manager
- Iordanis Chidiroglou - Project manager
- Dr Aleksander Lukojc - Research assistant
