bridging the gaps
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Martyn Amos
Department: Computing and Maths
Email: m.amos@mmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0161 247 1534
Location: E115b
Research interests:
Span both computer science and biology, including systems and synthetic biology; I lead the Novel Computation Group, members of which pursue work on agent-based simulation, computer architecture, biological computing and collective dynamics.
May Azzawi
Department: Health Science
Email: m.azzawi@mmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0161 247 3332
Location: E210
Research interests:
Vessel contractility and function in health and disease, diabetic vasculopathy, immunopathogenesis of heart disease.
Craig Banks
Department: Chemistry and Materials
Email: c.banks@mmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0161 247 1196
Location: E444
Research interests:
Intelligent electrochemical sensing, nano electrochemistry, electrochemical sensors, nano composites, sono electrochemistry, drug sensors, applications in forensic science.
Francis Brearley
Department: Env. & Geog. Science
Email: f.q.brearly@mmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0161 247 1717
Location: E411a
Research interests:
Tropical forest regeneration and nutrient cycling, mycorrhizal ecology, use of nitrogen stable isotope, ultramafic soils.
Vittorio Caprio
Department: School of Biology, Chemistry and Health Science
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Main areas of interest centre on developing highly efficient and flexible access to complex naturally occuring bioactive molecules to enable studies in drug discovery/chemical biology (i.e. using molecules as probes to study biological processes).
Derek Causon
Department: Computing and Maths
Email: d.m.causon@mmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0161 247 1499
Location: E157
Research interests:
Computational fluid dynamics, fluid dynamics, free surface flows, Riemann-based finite volume methods, adaptive Cartesian cut cell methods, numerical simulation of shock waves and blast waves, multi-phase flows, high performance motor vehicles, mesh-less methods for compressible and incompressible flows, architecture, wave interactions with fixed and floating bodies, GPU-accelerated computational methods, anything else along similar lines which he happens to find interesting.
Rebecca Chandy
Department: Engineering and Technology
Email: r.chandy@mmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0161 247 3963
Location: E355
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Hans Degens
Department: IRM
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Muscle physiology, microcirculation, inflammation.
Mike Dempsey
Department: School of Biology, Chemistry and Health Science
Email: m.dempsey@mmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0161 247 1139
Location: E226
Research interests:
Microbial Physiology, biological wastewater treatment, applied microbiology, bioprocess development, bioprocess optimisation.
Luciano Gerber
Department: Computing and Maths
Email: l.gerber@mmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0161 247 1694
Location: E237
Research interests:
Providing enhanced support for data mining tasks in database management and information retrieval systems; devising new operations and algorithms for online analytical processsing tasks; devising techniques to process large, complex data (such as that of bioinformatics, computational chemistry, among others) effectively and efficiently.
Sam Gray
Department: RED office
Email: s.gray@mmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0161 247 3429
Location: RED
Research interests:
Public and community expertise - lots of contacts with local people and residents, event management skills, writing skills, an evaluation framework that can help to measure impact, a strategic overview of university, civic and regional priorities.
Peter Harding
Department: Computing and Maths
Email: p.harding@mmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0161 247 2816
Location: E220
Research interests:
Complex systems, C programming, C++ programming.
Adeel Hashmi
Department: Computing and Maths
Email: a.hashmi@mmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0161 247 2816
Location: E220
Research interests:
Network security, hardware programming on FPGA, JAVA programming.
Stephen R Hoon
Department: Env. & Geog. Science
Email: s.hoon@mmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0161 247 3559
Location: E449a
Research interests:
Environmental magnetism and mathematical modelling, environmental and materials fine particle magnetism, environmental electromagnetic radiation and pollution, magnetometry, magnetic spectroscopy and instrumentation.
Simon Iwnicki
Department: Engineering and Technology
Email: s.d.iwnicki@mmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0161 247 6247
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Computer simulation of mechanical systems.
Naomi Jacobs
Department: Computing and Maths
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Factors affecting interdisciplinary research.
Helen Ji
Department: Engineering and Technology
Email: h.ji@mmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0161 247 4617
Location: E329
Research interests:
Electronic design automation tools, programming.
Trish Linton
Department: School of Biology, Chemistry and Health Science
Email: p.e.linton@mmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0161 247 1421
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Molecular Biology and microbiology as applied to Environmental/Industrial and Medical Microbial Ecology, plant-microbe interactions, biomining technology.
Stephen Lynch
Department: Computing and Maths
Email: s.lynch@mmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0161 247 3587
Location: E230
Research interests:
Dynamical systems.
Lindsey Munro
Department: Chemistry and Materials
Email: l.munro@mmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0161 247 3321
Location: E209
Research interests:
Exploiting the power of computational chemistry to provide insights into:
Aroma & flavour chemistry; materials modelling, including the interaction of atoms, molecules and clusters with surfaces; effect of defects, impurities, functional groups and bending on surface interactions; solvent effects, ranging from continuum to hybrid to explicit solvent models; development of accurate intermolecular and atom-bulk potentials.
Maybin Muyeba
Department: Computing and Maths
Email: m.muyeba@mmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0161 247 3553
Location: E237
Research interests:
Data Mining, fuzzy Logic, intelligent systems, evolutionary computing.
Andy Nisbet
Department: Computing and Maths
Email: a.nisbet@mmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0161 247 1556
Location: E137
Research interests:
Adaptive/Iterative compilation for parallel/novel multicore architectures, reconfigurable computing (FPGAs), reverse engineering and decompilation, performance optimisation.
Nicolette Rattenbury
Department: Computing and Maths
Email: n.rattenbury@mmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0161 247 1532
Location: E141
Research interests:
Numerical methods, computational programming.
Robin Sen
Department: Env. & Geog. Science
Email: r.sen@mmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0161 247 6208
Location: E411b
Research interests:
Mycorrhizal community ecology, bacterial and archaeal interactions and functioning in mycorrhizospheres, biological control of root pathogens.
Alex Shenfield
Department: Engineering & Technology
Email: a.shenfield@mmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0161 247 6235
Location: E347
Research interests:
Evolutionary computation, computational modelling, distributed computing.
Lubomira Tosheva
Department: School of Biology, Chemistry and Health Science
Email: l.tosheva@mmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0161 247 1426
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Zeolites and colloidal (60-300 nm) zeolites, structured porous materials: 3D-structures and thin films (Langmuir-Blodgett films, spin coating, layer-by-layer deposition, direct synthesis).
Joanna Verran
Department: School of Biology, Chemistry and Health Science
Email: j.verran@mmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0161 247 1206
Location: E441
Research interests:
Biofilms, microbiology education, oral microbiology.
Qiuyu Wang
Department: School of Biology, Chemistry and Health Science
Email: q.wang@mmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0161 247 3338
Location: E227
Research interests:
Molecular and cellular biology.
Debra Whitehead
Department: Chemistry
Email: d.whitehead@mmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0161 247 3341
Location: E210
Research interests:
Synthesis of nanoparticles, metal (gold, silver, iron), semiconductor (ZnS CdS) quantum dots.
Kath Whitehead
Department: Biology
Email: k.a.whitehead@mmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0161 247 1157
Location: E240
Research interests:
Mycology, microbiology, characterisation of surface properties, hygienic surfaces, surface engineering.