Simon Martin Clark Research

My research is highly collaborative. It involves the development and application of new techniques and methods in the physical sciences with a focus on the use of synchrotron and neutron sources. This allows my subject matter to be quite wide ranging. For example, I have just completed a research grant to develop a geophysically relevant conduction model for the upper mantle and I have just started a new research grant assessing the accuracy and reliability of carbonate climate proxy archives. The main thrust of my work over the last ten years has been in developing a reliable methodology for the determination of the atomic structures of amorphous materials and melts to complement the techniques we already have for the structure solution of crystalline materials. This is largely completed. My focus now is in using this methodology to build up a systematic understanding of the relationship between melt atomic structure and melt properties much as was achieved for crystalline minerals 50 years ago.