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Physics Ultrasonics Group

Ultrasonics Group

Welcome to the Ultrasonics Group webpage.

The Ultrasonics Group

Ultrasound is a powerful technique in solid state physics, materials science and engineering physics. In our research we aim to cover the underlying science involved in a particular ultrasonic measurement technique with the aim that our work ultimately has some use in real world applications. We work together with other Academic and Industrial researchers, and potential end users of the technology. We don't just do ultrasound - see the research details below.

Centre for Industrial UltrasonicsLink opens in a new window

The Centre for Industrial Ultrasonics or CIU consists of a team of over 30 researchers across the Faculty of Science, led by five highly experienced academics who have run a number of very successful, large scale research projects and technology transfer programmes. We were set up to help industrial organisations get access to specialised research expertise and equipment. Click the above link for more info.

You can read more about what we do in the sections below. Click on the image / section header and links in the text for more information.

Joe, Luke and Martha from the group, with Terry the Tornado machine

Group news

July 2025: congratulations to Joe Cregeen, Luke Smith and Martha Turvey, for being highly commended in the WAPCE Student Social Mobility AwardLink opens in a new window for their accessible outreach work. Joe has also been awarded the Ogden Outreach Postgrad Student Ambassador
Award 2025.

25/4/25 Would you like to do a PhD with us? We have NDA funding for a project using non-contact acoustic resonance techniques to measure the internal pressure of sealed storage containers.

1/1/25 We are very happy to be working with Coltraco UltrasonicsLink opens in a new window, and will be interviewing for an Innovate UK KTP soon!

Group news archive

Research

Find out more about the research we do at the link above, from flow measurement, to EMATs, and liquid crystal sensors for ultrasound.

A lovely image of a flow test-rig

Industrial engagement and outreach

We work closely with industry through the CIU.

For outreach, please see the department pages - more info about what we do in the group is coming soon!

We have developed accessible outreach with hands-on experiments, and a case study showing the adaptions made is available here. Please get in touch if you work with SEN groups and would like to be involved.

More information is also available here!

A cartoon of a group of people.

Group pages

For information about our group members and alumni, click this link.

For our group members only, you can find group events info here, and RAs here.

Some research results: a spectrograph formed from FFTs

Publications and research data

Preprints of many of our publications are available at WRAP. The link above is to a list of publications for each academic, and information about how to access research data. For information about our funded grants, please click here.

An image of a hand using an EMAT on a pipe, with a Sonemat pulser

Join us

If you'd like to study with us for a PhD or EngD, please see the link above. We will add information about potential URSS projects, PDRA jobs etc. later.

Coming soon: information about conferences you may see us at!

If you want to know anything more, please get in touch.

Contact details

Prof. Steve Dixon (S.M.Dixon (at) warwick.ac.uk)

Prof. Rachel Edwards (R.S.Edwards (at) warwick.ac.uk).