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Industry & University
Parent category: University Affairs
Prof Richard Davies
Professor, School of Engineering and Computing Sciences
Telephone: 42554 Mondays and Fridays
Dean of Knowledge Exchange and Impact & Director of Durham Energy Institute., Department of Earth Sciences
Telephone: 42346 or 49308
Dean of Knowledge Exchange and Impact , Durham Business & Innovation Services
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 49308
Specialist expertise:
- Hydrocarbon Exploration Deepwater Niger Delta
- Lusi mud volcano, East Java
- Mud volcanoes
- Shale Gas and Associated Risks
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
Prof Brian Tanner
Professor, Department of Physics
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 43677
Centre for Molecular and Nanoscale Electronics
Dean for University Enterprise, Durham Business & Innovation Services
Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 43207
Centre for Materials Physics
Durham X-ray Centre
Specialist expertise:
- academic/industrial development
- co-founder, Bede Scientific Instruments Ltd
- co-founder, Bede Scientific Instruments Ltd, now Bede plc
- ionizing radiation
- physics of (and) music
- physics of materials