CIU Staff Members
CIU Core Staff in Ultrasonics
Prof. Steve Dixon (Director)
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Steve Dixon has been working in ultrasonics research since 1991, and has worked on collaborative R&D projects with over 100 different industrial partners since that time. He established the Centre for Industrial Ultrasonics in 2011 in order to make it easier for industry and particularly SMEs to engage with University research. He is a Royal Society Industry Research Fellow and also holds a 5 year EPSRC Fellowship, researching a new generation of ultrasonic transducers. He has previously served as the Academic Chair of and is currently a founding Member of the EPSRC funded Research Centre for NDE. He has previously held a 5 year Royal Academy of Engineering Fellowship and a 5 year EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship. For 10 years he was the Editor-in-Chief of Nondestructive Testing and Evaluation and is on the editorial boards of Insight and NDT&E International. In recognition of his work to deliver impact and real world benefits to industry he was made a Warwick Ventures Enterprise Champion. Research Interests: Ultrasonic measurements of material properties, non-contact ultrasound, non-destructive evaluation and testing, ultrasonic transduction, ultrasonic measurement of metallurgical microstructure. |
Prof. Dave Hutchins (Deputy Director)
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David Hutchins joined the Warwick in 1988, but his career in ultrasonics research goes back over 35 years. He has previously worked at Queens University, Canada and the University of Hull. Over this time, Dave has worked with a large number of industrial partners ranging from large multimnationals to SMEs. Dave is also a Warwick Ventures Enterprise Champion, and is the Director of the Advanced Imaging and Measurement (AIM) Lab at Warwick. Research Interests: Design and fabrication of ultrasonic systems, including transducers and sensors formed by micromachining techniques, communications and imaging, materials characterisation, flow measurement, non-destructive evaluation, medical imaging, and high power ultrasound. |
Dr. Duncan Billson
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Duncan BIllson obtained his PhD in the early 90s, working on ultrasonic transduction. After a period of working in industry in areas focused on non-destructive testing, he returned to academia to continue research into ultrasonics, having now worked in the field for over 25 years. Research Interests: Ultrasonics, optoelectronics, Audio transduction, Sensors and transducers, digital photographic printing |
Dr. Rachel Edwards
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Rachel Edwards has been working in non-destructive testing and ultrasonics for over 10 years. She was awarded a prestigious EU ERC Fellowship in2008, and has worked on a number of research projects in collaboration with industry in the past decade. Research Interests: Non contact generation and detection of ultrasound, using lasers and electromagnetic acoustic transducers. Modelling of ultrasound using PZFlex. Non-destructive testing. Cryogenic ultrasonic measurements of single crystals. Materials characterisation. |
Dr. Oksana Trushkevych
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Oksana Trushkevych has broad expertise covering photonics, nanomaterials, and over 10 years experience in ultrasonics including in miniaturising sensors, ultrasound visualisation and ultrasonic surface and guided waves for non-destructive testing (NDT). She leads participation in Midlands Nuclear consortium by School of Engineering.
Her research interests cover guided waves and ultrasonics for non-destructive testing and structural health monitoring in particular in very thick steel plates and concrete. She is focusing on solving industrially relevant problems through a variety of methods including novel approaches to thermography, electromagnetic and magnetostrictive acoustic transducers. She is developing paint-on or removable film sensors for ultrasound visualisation based on liquid crystals and has interest in acoustic metamaterials.
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Dr. Susan Burrows
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Research Interests : Ceramics, material characterisation, non-destructive testing, new technolgies for piezoelectric materials. |
Mr Jonathan Harrington
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Jonathan Harrington is the Group's dedicated technician, with over 20 years experience of mechanical workshop experience, using a broad range of machines and tools, working in the R&D sector. |
CIU Associated Staff
Dr. Yongmann Chung
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Research Interests : Computational fluid dynamics & engineering fluid dynamics, unsteady flow simulations, flow control |
Prof. Mark Williams
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Research Interests : Metrology, manufacturing technology, imaging including mirco-CT X-ray, digital prototyping. |
