Research
I have had a long and very satisfying research career and I have changed fields a number of times.
I am currently carryout research on the physics of cancer and I am fortunate in being able to work with a number of colleagues in the physics department and in the faculty of health and life sciences on a number of aspects of this disease.
Recent funding from the EPSRC and Cancer Research UK has enable us to develop a machine learning algorithm that makes it possible to predict which oral lesions will progress to oral cancer.
Research groups
Research grants
Clinical and technical validation of infrared absorbance spectra to predict malignant transformation in oral potentially malignant disorders (OPMDs)
CANCER RESEARCH UK (UK)
October 2023 - September 2026
Impact Acceleration Account - University of Liverpool 2012
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 2012 - March 2017
FLUENCE: Felix Light for the UK: Exploiting Novel Characteristics and Expertise.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 2017 - December 2022
Development of New Mathematical Sciences Capabilities for Healthcare Technologies
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
December 2015 - April 2021
Increasing Industry Engagement and Open Innovation in Health and Life Sciences - Proximity to Discovery Award
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
March 2016 - August 2017
Development of an ultra sensitive circular dichroism (CD) instrument
BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL
January 2018 - February 2018
Michelle Siggel-King Alice Support
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
January 2015 - December 2015
Peter Weightman Secondment to CCLRC
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
October 2005 - September 2008
Operation and maintenance of beamlines at CCLRC's synchrotron radiation source at the Daresbury Laboratory.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
June 2001 - May 2007
KEL09/02 - The application of reflection anisotrophy spectroscopy to the development of industrial products
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
May 2011 - September 2012
Agreement Governing Collaboration in the Operation and maintenance of Beamlines at CCLRC's Synchroton Radiation Source at the Daresbury Laboratory
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
June 2007 - September 2008
University of Liverpool Institutional Discipline Bridging.
MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 2003 - October 2006
PIA IMPACTS GRANT
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
August 2010 - March 2011
Quantification of charge transfer and electron screening in alloys and semiconductors.
NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANISATION (BELGIUM)
December 1996 - December 2002
Application of reflection anisotropy spectroscopy to the metal-liquid interface.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
June 1999 - May 2001
Towards disease diagnosis through spectrochemical imaging of tissue architecture.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
June 2013 - September 2016
Fundamental properties of quasicrystal surfaces.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
September 2000 - August 2003
Micro-Plasma Technology for Controlling Cellular Interactions on Medical Implants
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
September 2009 - May 2013
The design and analysis of synthetic substrates for embryonic stem cell culture.
BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL
July 2006 - December 2009
Reflection Anisotropy Spectroscopy as a New Tool for Linking Conformation to Biological Function: Applications in Biological Redox Chemistry
BIOTECHNOLOGY & BIOLOGICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH COUNCIL
March 2008 - February 2011
The growth, characterisation and optimisation of new oxide, nitride and nanostructured materials.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
September 2000 - March 2002
Colloid and Surface Science for Enhanced Removal of Natural Organic Matter in Potable Water Treatment.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
March 2000 - March 2001
A novel approach to study the cellular response to directional loading in relation to biomedical implants.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
July 2007 - December 2010
4GLS
NORTH WEST DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (UK)
December 2005 - December 2009
Probing conformational dynamics in signalling EGF receptors via multidimensional single-molecule fluorescence microscopy.
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
October 2004 - September 2007
Fundamental aspects of the electronic structure of biointeractions using high performance electron spectroscopy.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 2004 - September 2005
Complex metallic alloys (CMA).
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
July 2005 - June 2010
Development of reflection anisotropy spectroscopy.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
March 1999 - June 2002
A novel biophysical approach to the study of interactions between nucleic acids.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
January 2005 - June 2007
A High Energy X-Ray Source for Electron Spectroscopy of Materials.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
February 2002 - January 2006
Developing and operating the Beamline and its two Stations (4.1 and 4.2) at the Daresbury Laboratory.
DARESBURY LABORATORY
June 1998 - May 2001
Experimental studies of the mechanism of biological organisation.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
November 2009 - June 2011
Application of reflection anisotropy spectroscopy to the metal liquid interface.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
September 1999 - August 2001
Reflection Anistropy Spectroscopy (RAS) of DNA Interactions at Surfaces.
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
September 2001 - December 2002