Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • 1985 - 1992: Department of Crystallography, Birkbeck College, University of London. PhD Crystallography.

  • 1988 - 1983: Department of Crystallography, Birkbeck College, University of London. MSc Crystallography.

  • 1976 - 1980: Chemistry Department, City University, London. BSc Industrial Chemistry.

Work Experience

  • 2019 - Present: Professor, School of Engineering, Macquarie University, Australia.

  • 2020 - 2021: Research Director SmartCrete CRC.

  • 2018 - 2019: Deputy Head of Department, Department of Earth and Planetary Science, Macquarie University, Australia.

  • 2013 - 2020: Professor, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

  • 2013 - 2017: Research Scientist, Bragg Institute, ANSTO, Australia.

  • 2001 - 2013: Staff Scientist/Engineer, Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA.

  • 1987 - 2001: Beamline Scientist, Daresbury Laboratory, UK.

Adjunct Positions

  • 2011: Honorary Associate, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.

  • 2006: Associate Adjunct Professor, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

  • 2005: Associate Researcher, Dept. of Earth and Planetary Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

  • 2000: Honorary Professor Dept. of Earth Sciences, The University of Manchester UK.

  • 1994: Honorary Lecturer, Dept. of Earth Sciences, The University of Manchester, UK.

Research

My research is based primarily around using x-ray and neutron scattering and imaging together with Monte Carlo simulations to study problems in Materials and Earth Science. The majority of my work has involved non-ambient conditions usually high-temperatures and high-pressures. I started out doing neutron diffraction at the ILL and ISIS before moving to synchrotron radiation at the Daresbury Synchrotron Radiation Source and then the Advanced Light Source. My current interests include using scattering to determine the atomic structure of amorphous materials and melts and using a combination of diffraction and imaging to study percolation through composite materials.