Research
I am currently working in several broad areas including cloaking (making things invisible), localisation (concentrating waves and energy in a finite area), fracture (investigating how complex materials break and fail), homogenisation (approximating complicated materials and phenomena by simpler ones), controlling waves, and mode-conversion (changing one type of wave to another). You can read more about my work in my papers or see more about it in my talks.
Please see my personal website for information regarding my research interests.
Research groups
Research grants
DiRAC-3 Operations 2023-26 - Liverpool
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY FACILITIES COUNCIL
April 2023 - March 2026
Multiscale multiphysics structured interfaces
LEVERHULME TRUST (UK)
July 2023 - September 2026
MUSICA: Modelling UltraSonic Inspection of Challenging defects for Automated analysis
RESEARCH CENTRE FOR NON-DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION (UK)
March 2023 - June 2025
Impact Acceleration Account - University of Liverpool 2012
ENGINEERING & PHYSICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL
October 2012 - March 2017
Research collaborations
Professor Richard Craster
Imperial College London
Waves, homogenisation, metamaterials, Green's functions
Professor Ross McPhedran
CUDOS, University of Sydney
Greens' functions, dynamic anisotropy, metamaterials, cloaking
Professor Julius Kaplunov
Keele University
Wave propagation, asymptotic analysis, homogenisation, multi-modal theories
Professor Philippe Roux
ISTerre, Universite de Grenoble
Seismic metamaterials
Professor Vladyslav Danishevskyy
Prydniprovs’ka State Academy of Civil Engineering and Architecture
Wave propagation, asymptotic analysis, homogenisation, multi-modal theories
Professor Massimiliano Gei
Cardiff University
Elastodynamics, metamaterials, cloaking
Professor Michele Brun
Università of Cagliari
Elastodynamics, cloaking, metamaterials
Professor Ian Jones
Liverpool John Moores University
Waves, metamaterials, cloaking, Green's functions, fracture, lattice dynamics
Dr Andrea Colombi
Imperial College London
Seismic metamaterials
Dr Sebastien Guenneau
Institut Fresnel, UMR CNRS 7249
Interfacial waves, metamaterials
Dr Mike Nieves
Liverpool John Moores University
Fracture, lattice dynamics, wiener-hopf technique, Green's functions
Professor Natalia Movchan
Waves, metamaterials, cloaking, Green's functions, fracture, lattice dynamics
Professor Alexander Movchan
Waves, metamaterials, cloaking, Green's functions, fracture, lattice dynamics