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Computers
Parent category: Science & Technology
Professor Michael A. Crang
Professor, Department of Geography
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41899
Professor, Culture-Economy-Life
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41899
Professor, Social/Spatial Theory
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41899
Professor, Urban Worlds
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41899
Specialist expertise:
- Globalisation, waste and value
- heritage interpretation
- information society
- museums
- Sweden
Dr Nick Holliman
Reader, School of Engineering and Computing Sciences
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 44287
Fellow, Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 44287
Centre for Vision and Visual Cognition
Biophysical Sciences Institute
Specialist expertise:
- Graphics, Vision, VR
- LED Industrial Research Team
- LED Industrial Research Team for Japanese Multi-National Company
Dr Ian Jermyn
Reader, Department of Mathematical Sciences
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 43080
Specialist expertise:
- Extracting information from images using statistical methods.
Dr Stephen M. Lyon
Senior Lecturer, Department of Anthropology
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41597
Senior Lecturer, Health and Human Sciences
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 40246
Specialist expertise:
- Cultural systems
- E-Social Science
- Pakistani politics
Dr David Milledge
Research Fellow, Department of Geography
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 43504
Specialist expertise:
- Digital models of the earth's surface
- Shallow landslides
Professor Malcolm Munro
Emeritus Professor, School of Engineering and Computing Sciences
Specialist expertise:
- computers in a software enabled society
- impact of IT on business
- safety of computers and software
- software engineering
- software maintenance
Professor Mike Petty
Chair of Engineering, School of Engineering and Computing Sciences
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 42419
Co-director, Centre for Molecular and Nanoscale Electronics
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 42419
Specialist expertise:
- molecular electronics
- nanoelectronics
- Organic electronics - the use of organic materials in electronic devices. Perhaps the best known example is the liquid crystal display but future applications might include plastic transitors, organic solid state lighting, identification tags and chemicha
Dr Bernard Piette
Computer Officer, Reader, Department of Mathematical Sciences
Centre for Particle Theory
Biophysical Sciences Institute
Specialist expertise:
- Belgium
- Computer Music
- Computer technology
- computers & networks
- mathematical modelling of physical phenomena particularly structures & fluid flow
- Mathematical physics
- non-linear science
Professor David Toll
Chair of Engineering, School of Engineering and Computing Sciences
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 42388
Specialist expertise:
- Geotechnical engineering i.e. the engineering properties of the ground with relevance to roads, landslides, foundations
- International Data Exchange (XML)
- Landslides, particularly rainfall-induced landslides in tropical areas
- Tropical Soil Engineering with experience in Singapore, Malaysia, China
Professor David Wood
Chair of Engineering, School of Engineering and Computing Sciences
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 42464
Centre for Molecular and Nanoscale Electronics
Biophysical Sciences Institute
Specialist expertise:
- microelectronics
- microengineering
- optical communications
- the ``chip'' industry