Before this he had spent 3 years as a post doc at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey California, making Molecular Dynamics Studies and Computer Animations, which is still the main area of his research activities. He did his PhD work in the Electronic & Electrical Engineering Department of the University of Salford, on the Mathematical Modelling of Atomic Collisions in Solids.
Current research activities include the use of Molecular Dynamics Simulations to predict the behaviour of cluster impacts on surfaces. As well as the use of more simple Binary Collisions simulations to predict the effects of energetic particle solid interactions, in particular ion implantation profiles in crystalline solids.
A list of publications can be found here. With links to pdf files of more recent publications.
He bacame a lecturer in the Department in 1986 and after, foolishly, complimenting the CDCR (Combined Departmental Computer Resource) on its help in installing the research groups' Sun network was asked to take over as the Director of the CDCR after acting as Deputy Director for a year! The moral of this story is never say anything nice about anything - something he now tries to stick rigidly to!
He was promoted to senior lecturer in 1993, to Reader in 1997, reaching the dizzy heights of Professor in 2002. He has just become the proud owner of the Particle Solid email list - an email list of some 300 members actively involved in Research in the field of Energetic Particle Solid Interactions.
He is currently the acting Director of the Ion Beam Centre at Surrey. From September 2001 until July 2002 he was on sabbatical leave at the Chinese University of Hong Kong where he continued to perform Computer Simulations (see the web site at CUHK) or here if your link to the UK is faster than to Asia. He must also take some responsibility for the windows interface to the Data Furnace for Ion Beam Analysis.