People
The MPC is led by Prof Dirk Engelberg. Our centre is made up of field-leaders in metallurgy, corrosion, materials characterisation, degradation, modelling and performance testing. Further information about our researchers and links to their research profiles are included below.
Key contacts
- Jane Deakin - Business Manager, Materials Performance Centre
- Dirk Engelberg - Director, Materials Performance Centre
Associated staff
- Jonathan Duff – Experimental Officer
- Freyja Peters - Zr Project Manager
Academic staff
- Timothy Abram - Professor in Nuclear Fuel Technology
- Grace Burke – Emeritus Professor of Materials Performance
- Mike C. Smith - Professor of Welding Technology
- Brian Connolly - Reader in Corrosion Performance
- Michele Curioni - Senior Lecturer in Corrosion Protection
- John Francis - Reader in Welding Technology
- Philipp Frankel - Senior Research Fellow
- Rob Harrison - Dalton Research Fellow
- Enrique Jimenez-Melero - Senior Lecturer in Radiation Material Science
- Andrey Jivkov - Professor of Solid Mechanics
- Abbie Jones - Professor in Nuclear Graphite
- Stuart Lyon - AkzoNobel Professor of Corrosion Control
- Paul Mummery - Chair in Nuclear Materials
- Ed Pickering - Senior Lecturer in Metallurgy
- Michael Preuss - Professor of Metallurgy
- Joao Quinta da Fonseca - Professor of Mechanical Metallurgy
- Christopher Race - Senior Research Fellow
- Joseph Robson - Professor of Physical Metallurgy
- Matthew Roy - Senior Lecturer in Materials for Demanding Environments
- Fabio Scenini - Senior Lecturer Materials Performance
- Clint Sharrad - Senior Lecturer in Nuclear Decommissioning Engineering
- Andrew Sherry - Research Professor/Consultant
- Nicholas Stevens - Lecturer
- Joel Turner - Dalton Fellow in Nuclear Fuel Technology
- Ping Xiao - Professor of Materials Science