People

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Honorary Visiting Appointments

Professor John O’Connor, University of Newcastle, Australia
Dr Ben Beake, Micro Materials Ltd., Wrexham
Dr Ejaz Ahmed, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan
Professor Hamid Kheyrandish, CSMA Ltd, Stoke-on-Trent

Ion-Assisted Coatings

Staff:

Professor John Colligon (J.Colligon@mmu.ac.uk)      Tel: 44 (0)161 247 1452

Dr David Johnson (D.Johnson@mmu.ac.uk)      Tel: 44 (0)161 247 1422
Mr Chris Maryan (C.Maryan@mmu.ac.uk)      Tel: 44 (0)161 247 3373
Dr Rebecca Taylor(R.Taylor@mmu.ac.uk)      Tel: 44 (0)161 247 3345
Dr Reza Valizadeh (R.Valizadeh@mmu.ac.uk)      Tel: 44 (0)161 247 3385
Dr Vladimir Vishnyakov (V.Vishnyakov@mmu.ac.uk)      Tel: 44 (0)161 247 1201

Research Students:

Noredine Mahdjoub (N.Mahdjoub@mmu.ac.uk)      Tel: 44 (0)161 247 3385
Anna Zywar (Anna.Zywar@gmail.com)      Tel: 44 (0)161 247 3385

Surface Engineering

Staff:

Professor Peter Kelly (Peter.Kelly@mmu.ac.uk)      Tel: 44 (0)161 247 4643
Dr Glen West (G.West@mmu.ac.uk)      Tel: 44 (0)161 247 4692
Dr Yin Nan Kok      Tel: 44 (0)161 247 4692

Research Students:

Stephen Carpenter (S.Carpenter@mmu.ac.uk)      Tel: 44 (0)161 247 4694
Zhibin Liu (lzb_pku@hotmail.com)      Tel: 44 (0)161 247 4694
John Freeman (John.Freeman@hotmail.com)      Tel: 44 (0)161 247 4694
Adele Packer (A.Packer@mmu.ac.uk)

Microbiology

Staff:

Professor Joanna Verran (J.Verran@mmu.ac.uk) Tel: 44 (0)161 247 1206

Research Fellow:

Dr Kath Whitehead (K.A.Whitehead@mmu.ac.uk) Tel 44 (0)161 247 1157

Research Students:

Paul Airey (P.Airey@mmu.ac.uk)
Gillian Roger (G.Roger@mmu.ac.uk)
Lisa Coulthwaite (L.Coulthwaite@mmu.ac.uk)

Chemical Vapour Deposition

Staff:

Dr R I Cherry (R.Cherry@mmu.ac.uk) Tel: 44 (0)161 247 3572
Dr Chris Rego (Dr Chris Rego@mmu.ac.uk) Tel: 44 (0)161 247 1424
Dr H Taylor (H.Taylor@mmu.ac.uk) Tel: 44 (0)161 247 3323

Research Students:

Ian Wilson (I.Wilson@mmu.ac.uk)      Tel: 44 (0)161 247 3385
May Bayliss (MayBayliss@student.mmu.ac.uk)     Tel: 44 (0)161 247 3385

Other SCCRG contacts

Active collaboration exists with research groups and companies in the UK who use the special coating techniques to prepare samples for studies of biocompatibility, corrosion, cutting tool performance, diamond layers, electronic barrier layers, contacts and devices, magnetic films, optical devices, and wear. In addition there are collaborative overseas activities with groups in the University of Kingston, Ontario (Canada), University of Plzen (Czech Republic), Universities of Chemnitz, Munich and Stuttgart (Germany), University of Rome (Italy), Mitsubishi Nippon Oil Corporation (Japan), University of Aveiro (Portugal), CSIC Madrid (Spain), Universities of Moscow and St Petersburg (Russia) Universities of Linkoping and Uppsala (Sweden), National University and Nanyang University Singapore, Swinburn University of Technology (Australia), Colorado School of Mines, Advanced Energy Inc.(USA) and Academy of Sciences, Tashkent (Uzbekistan).