Professor Peter Weightman BA, PhD, F. Inst. P.
Professor Physics
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Research
Research Overview
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 Group Membership
Research Grants
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