Materials Performance Centre Staff
The MPC brings together the research expertise of academic staff from a number of different Schools - Materials and the Corrosion & Protection Centre, MACE (Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering) and Chemistry - to support collaborative research projects in the field of Nuclear Materials. This approach, across the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Science, enriches the Centre's research activities and enables the MPC to undertake ambitious research projecs which utilise the strength of knowledge, experience and facilities available.
The activities of the MPC are supported by a Business Manager and Personal Assistant/Administrator who facilitate the MPC's research and business activities, and help maintain a high-level of professional engagement with our partners in academia, in industry and across the materials research community.
Please click on photos to see individual staff pages.
Prof. M.G. (Grace) Burke
Director
Research Themes: Irradiation Damage (Theme Leader), Stress Corrosion Cracking & EAC
+44 (0)161 306 4858
Prof. Michael Preuss
Deputy Director
Research Themes: Zirconium Cladding Material (Theme Leader), Plasticity & Deformation and Modelling, Irradiation Damage
michael.preuss@manchester.ac.uk
+44 (0)161 306 3601
Ms. Freyja Peters
Personal Assistant / Centre Administrator
freyja.peters@manchester.ac.uk
+44 (0)161 306 4838
Prof. Tim Abram (Director of C-NET)
Research Themes: High-Temp Materials, Gen IV, Fuel, Silicon Carbide
+44 (0)161 306 4813
Prof. Bob Cottis
Research Themes: Aqueous Corrosion & Modelling
+44 (0)161 306 4843
Dr. Dirk Engelberg
Research Themes: Aqueous Corrosion & Modelling, Stress corrosion Cracking & EAC
dirk.engelberg@manchester.ac.uk
+44 (0)161 306 5952
Dr. John Francis
Research Themes: Weld Modelling & Residual Stress (Theme Leader)
+44 (0)161 306 3803
Dr. Andrey Jivkov
Research Themes: Structural Integrity
andrey.jivkov@manchester.ac.uk
+44 (0)161 306 3765
Prof. Stuart Lyon
Research Themes: Stress Corrosion Cracking & EAC (Theme Leader), Aqueous Corrosion & Modelling, Zirconium Cladding Material
+44 (0)161 306 4846
Dr. Paul Mummery
Research Themes: Plasticity and Deformation & Modelling, Nuclear Graphite, High-Temp Materials, Gen IV, Fuel, Silicon Carbide
+44 (0)161 306 3686
Prof. Simon Pimblott
Research Themes: Irradiation Damage
simon.pimblott@manchester.ac.uk
+44 (0)161 275 1325
Dr. Joao Quinta da Fonseca
Research Themes: Plasticity and Deformation & Modelling (Theme Leader), Stress Corrosion Cracking & EAC, Zirconium Cladding Material, Irradiation Damage
+44 (0)161 306 4844
Dr. Joe Robson
Research Themes: Zirconium Cladding Material
joseph.robson@manchester.ac.uk
+44 (0)161 306 3560
Dr. Fabio Scenini
Research Themes: Aqueous Corrosion & Modelling, Stress Corrosion Cracking & EAC
fabio.scenini@manchester.ac.uk
+44 (0)161 306 2935
Prof. Andrew Sherry (Director of the Dalton Nuclear Institute)
Research Themes: Structural Integrity (Theme Leader)
andrew.sherry@manchester.ac.uk
+44 (0)161 306 4842
Dr. Nick Stevens
Research Themes: Aqueous Corrosion & Modelling (Theme Leader)
nicholas.stevens@manchester.ac.uk
+44 (0)161 306 3621
Prof. Phil Withers
Research Themes: Weld Modelling & Residual Stress, Structural Integrity
philip.withers@manchester.ac.uk
+44 (0)161 306 8872
Prof. Ping Xiao
Research Themes: High-Temp Materials, Gen IV, Fuel, Silicon Carbide (Theme Leader)
+44 (0)161 306 5941
Prof. John Yates (Director of MaSC)
Research Themes: Plasticity & Deformation and Modelling, Weld Modelling & Residual Stress, Stress Corrosion Cracking & EAC, Structural Integrity
+44 (0)161 275 4331