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Professor Mike Bentley

Professor, Department of Geography

Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41859

Professor / Cluster Convenor, Quaternary Environmental Change

Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 41859

Specialist expertise:

• Antarctic subglacial lakes
• Antarctica
• Glaciers and ice sheets
• South America and Patagonia

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Dr Niko Galiatsatos

Research Associate, Department of Archaeology

Teaching Fellow, Department of Geography

Specialist expertise:

• Geographical information creation and integration
• Landscape archaeology in Middle East and Iran, satellite imagery
• Spy satellite imagery, CORONA program

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Professor Robert Holdsworth

Professor of Structural Geology, Department of Earth Sciences

Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 42299

Knowledge Exchange Fellow, Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience

Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 42299

Specialist expertise:

• Continental tectonics: how the Earth's continents undergo deformation in response to plate tectonic forces, generating mountains, basins, earthquakes and mineral deposits
• Digital geological mapping and 3D visualisation: development of new methods ultimatley leading to the use of 'virtual geological outcrops' for use by scientists and industry.
• Fault reactivation and mechanics: why do faults move repeatedly over very long time periods? What are the main weakening mechanisms leading to this behaviour?
• geological faults
• geology of the British Isles and adjacent regions
• Predicting fracture networks in rocks: what are the 3D attributes of fracture systems in rocks and how can we predict their evolution in the subsurface and its impacts on fluid flow
• structural geology
• Structural geology and tectonics: the response of the Earth's outer shell (the crust) to plate tectonic forces. I am particualrly interested in faults and their deeper crustal equivalents, shear zones.
• tectonics

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Professor Simon James

Senior Lecturer, Department of English Studies

Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 42583

Specialist expertise:

• Charles Dickens
• Contemporary Fiction
• Evolution and Literature; Charles Darwin
• George Gissing
• H. G. Wells
• The Novel
• Victorian Literature

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Professor John McLachlan

Associate Dean of Medicine, Phase 1 Medicine

Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 40323

Medicine, Pharmacy and Health, School of

Telephone: +44 (0) 191 33 40323

Fellow, Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing

Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 40323

Co-Director, Centre for Medical Education Research

Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 40323

Medicine and Health Postgraduate Programmes

Specialist expertise:

• Complementary and Alternative Medicine, and health claims in general
• Education in healthcare, including training doctors, and assessment (including exams and testing) of all kinds
• Embryology. All aspects of human development, including abnormalities and their causes, IVF, genetic engineering in humans, termination of pregnancy, stemm cells and cloning

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Prof Simon Ross

Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences

Centre for Particle Theory

Specialist expertise:

• Black holes - theory
• String theory and quantum gravity
• Theories with extra dimensions, particularly gravitational aspects

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Prof Paul Sillitoe

Professor, Department of Anthropology

Specialist expertise:

• International development, esp natural resources
• Natural resources management
• Oceania - esp. New Guinea
• Subsistence farming
• Sustainable development
• Tribal peoples.

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Prof. Jonathan W. Steed

Professor, Department of Chemistry

Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 42085

Fellow, Wolfson Research Institute for Health and Wellbeing

Telephone: +44 (0)191 33 42085

Durham X-ray Centre

Mobile telephone: 07739911578

Specialist expertise:

• Crystallography, crystal growth and crystal structure including polymorphism e.g. of pharmaceuticals
• Inorganic chemistry
• Nanoscale materials, particularly gels

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