People
Academic and research staff
Andrey Jivkov – Group lead and Professor of Solid Mechanics
Kali-Babu Katnam – Lecturer in Structural Engineering
Lee Margetts – Senior Lecturer in Structural Integrity
Pieter Boom – Post-doctoral research associate
Elijah Borodin – Research Fellow in Materials
Odysseas Kosmas – Post-doctoral research associate
Maria Yankova – Post-doctoral research associate
PhD researchers
Kiprian Berbatov
Geometric Mechanics of Solids
kiprian.berbatov@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
Tian Chen
Effect of microstructure swelling on the reactive transport of contaminants in clays.
tian.chen-4@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
Ahmadreza Farrokhnia
Multiple-scale modelling of damage and failure of nuclear graphite.
ahmadreza.farrokhnia@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
Michael Ford
Prediction of cleavage fracture of steels: Improved consideration of carbide failure and stress variation.
michael.ford-2@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
Linhua He
Sealing and plugging abandoned oil and gas wells using cement and clay.
linhua.he@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
Sam Hewitt
Advanced virtual prototyping for sustainable energy generation.
sam.hewitt@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
Oliver Marshall
A study of fusion reactor component joining using in vessel robotics.
oliver.marshall@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
Shanshan Qin
PhD student visitor from Hohai University, China
Mechanistic study of crack formation in concrete dam by computational meso-scale modelling.
shanshan.qin@manchester.ac.uk
Jiaming Wang
Measurement and modelling of damage evolution in concrete during setting and under fatigue loading.
jiaming.wang@postgrad.manchester.ac.uk
MaPoS alumni
Andrew Abu-Muharib
Dr Todor G Baychev
Dr Jack Beswick
Yajing Bie
Nicolas Chapeau
Timothy Crump
Dr Ioannis Dassios
Dr Costy Kodsi
Xing Li
Chengyuan Lin
Dongxu Liu
Teqi Ma
Dr Zhanna Mileeva
Dr Craig Morrison
Prof Claudio Ruggieri
Dr Rafael Savioli
Prof Diego Sarzosa Burgos
Dr Rajneesh Sharma
Dr Joshua Taylor
Dr Todor Todorov
Athanasios Tsamos
Dr Xiaofeng Wang
Dr Qingrong Xiong
Dr Abolfazl Zahedi
Dr Mingzhong Zhang
Research expertise
Discover our latest research into the mechanics of fracture, fatigue and strength of solids.
Opportunities
Find out about PhD and post-doc research in MaPoS and how to apply.