Background

Graduated from Exeter University in 1985 with a BSc in Physics. Following a short term post measuring the performance semiconductor lasers at STC research laboratories, he went on to study at the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research, Southampton University where he submitted his doctoral thesis on the application of optical metrology in fluid mechanics. In 1990 he was appointed to the academic staff in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Loughborough University.

School Research Groups

Optical Engineering

External Activities

Member of the Optical Society of America (OSA)
Member of the Co-ordinate Measurement Association (CMA)

Research Interests and Activities

Particle Image Velocimetry, Holographic Particle Image Velocimetry, Laser Doppler Anemometry, Phase Doppler Anemometry.
Holographic and Tomographic Imagery, Digital Holographic Microscopy, Fourier Optics.
Optical Image Processing, Digital Image Processing, Neural Networks, Statistical Pattern Recognition.

External Activities

Professional affiliation: Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Conference Chair: “Holographic Metrology in Fluid Mechanics” Lougborough 28th-30th May 2003; “Holographic Methods and Optical Tomography in Engineering Applications” Loughborough 23rd-25th April 2007.
Invited lectures: School of Engineering, Cranfield University 2005, Department of Physics, University of Zaragoza 2006, Department of Engineering Cambridge University 2007.
Invited papers: 2000 SPIE Europhotonics, Glasgow 2000; ICOLAD City University, London 2005, Gordon Research Conference, Magdalen College, Oxford.
External review: Detectors for the Large Hadron Collider CERN, Switzerland; Member of NATO AVT-124 (Aerodynamics) Committee; EPSRC Peer Review College
Journal Review: Applied Optics, Optical Engineering, Measurement Science and Technology Optics and Laser Technology
Commercialisation of Research: Instrumentation has been developed for security print verification and meteorology and is covered by the following patents:
“Detection of Printing and Coating Media” Bank of England US Patent 7218386, European Patent EP1325477 . “A Weather Measurement Device for Determining the Speed and First Direction of Hydrometeors” Campbell Scientific Ltd PCT/GB2005/005088.

Awards

For work classified as “Frontier Science and Measurement” I have been the recipient of prizes at the National Physical Laboratory Metrology Awards on three occasions:

1991 A New Technique for Simultaneous Three Dimensional Displacement Measurements in Fluid and Solid Mechanics
1997 Laser Doppler Accelerometry: A New Concept for Non-Contact Vibration Measurement
1999 Heterodyne Detection in Doppler Global Velocimetry (Commendation)

Publications

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