Honorary Fellows, Visitors, Guests and Others

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• MA, DPhil, DSc (Oxford)

• CEng, FRSC, FIMMM, FREng, FRSE

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• Personal webpage

My main scientific interests are in the chemistry of materials and geomaterials used in oilfield and civil engineering, and the application of several advanced experimental methods. I have worked extensively on capillary liquid transport in porous construction materials (NMR imaging methods, measurement of transport properties and modelling of capillary flow). At present, my research activities are in experimental methods for studying reactive transport and chemomechanical processes in complex inorganic materials such as rocks and cement-based materials. Our recent work includes the development of synchrotron-based diffraction tomography, the application of scanning probe microscopy to mineral/water reactions; the hydrothermal chemistry of materials under deep borehole conditions; and analysis and chemistry in archaeology and building conservation.

• BSc (First Class Hons) in Chemistry, Edinburgh University
• PhD in Physical Chemistry, Cambridge University

• Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry
• Chartered Engineer (C Eng)
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
• Member of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers
• Fellow of the Institution of Fire Engineers
• Member of the International Association for Fire Safety Science

• Spontaneous combustion
• Fire investigation.
• Fire behaviour of combustible materials (ignition and fire growth)
• Fire dynamics

• Chairman of the International Association for Fire Safety Science
• Chairman of the Education and Professional Development Committee of the Institution of Fire Engineers
• Editor: Fire Safety Journal