Southampton Group

Academics

Prof. Fabrice PIERRON Professor of Solid Mechanics at the University of Southampton since 2012 List of publications on ResearcherID and ResearchGate Download short CV

Post-doctoral researchers

Dr Aleksander MAREK Research fellow at the University of Southampton since January 2021 Focus: Deformations of biological cells and tissues submitted to ultrasonic excitation, UltraSurge Project. More information on the project website. Find me on ResearchGate

PhD Students

	Ms Panagiota (Penny) TAVIANATOU Identification of the mechanical behaviour of bone using Digital Image Correlation and the Virtual Fields Method (2018-2022) Supervisors: Dr L. Fletcher, Prof. F. Pierron
	Mr Oliver PATTINSON Ultrafast imaging of cell-nanobubble interactions for bone repair (2019-2022) Supervisors: Dr Nick Evans, Dr Dario Carugo, Prof. F. Pierron
	Mr Rob HAMILL Full-field elasto-plastic properties mapping in dissimilar welded joins (2020-2023) Supervisors: Prof. F. Pierron, Dr A. Marek, Dr Allan Harte (UKAEA) PhD in collaboration with the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy, UK Atomic Energy Authority
	Ms Miranda BALLARD An ultra-high-speed imaging study of ultrasound-mediated mechanotransduction (2020-2023) Part of the UltraSurge Project. More information on the project website. Supervisors: Prof. F. Pierron, Dr A. Marek
	Mr Quentin MARCOT (Université de Lille, France) Dynamic test with heterogeneity in stress and temperature for inverse identification of thermomechanical properties of materials at high strain rates (2020-2023) Supervisors: Dr Bertrand Langrand (ONERA, France), Dr Thomas Fourest (ONERA, France), Prof. F. Pierron
	Ms Filipa CUNHA (NOVA University, Portugal) Enhancement of functionally graded material created by multi-feed wire and arc additive manufacturing using full-field identification methods (2021-2024) Supervisors: Dr José Xavier and Dr Telmo Santos (NOVA University, Portugal), Prof. F. Pierron
	Mr Amar PESHAVE (KU Leuven, Belgium) Finite Element Model Updating for material properties and boundary conditions (2020-2023) Supervisors: Prof. David Moëns and Prof. Dirk Vandepitte (KU Leuven, Belgium), Dr Pascal Lava and Prof. F. Pierron (MatchID N.V., Belgium)

Former members

	Dr Sarah DREUILHE Former PhD student, graduated in July 2017. Title of thesis: Development of novel inertial tests for the identification of non-linear material model parameters at high strain rates. Project funded by EOARD/AFOSR.
	Dr Rian SEGHIR Former Research fellow at the University of Southampton from Dec. 2015 to 2017 Now CNRS researcher (Chargé de Recherches) at the GeM laboratory, Ecole Centrale de Nantes, France Focus: Development of a high power ultrasonic set up for the identification of the visco-elastic properties of rigid polymers at high stain rates Find me on ResearchGate
	Dr. Frances M. DAVIS New Frontiers Fellow at the University of Southampton, Feb 2015 – Sept 2019 Focus: Characterization of polymers and soft materials at high strain rates Find me on ResearchGate
	Dr Jared VAN BLITTERSWYK Former PhD student, graduated on Nov. 5th 2019. Title of thesis: Novel inertial tests for high strain rate through-thickness properties of laminated composites (2016-2019) Now post-doctoral fellow at NIST, USA
	Dr. Xavier REGAL Former Research fellow at the University of Southampton, 2017-2020 Focus: Image-based ultrasonic shaking (IBUS) test (polymers, composites, glass) Find me on ResearchGate
	Dr Sam PARRY Former PhD student, graduated on July 2nd 2021. Title of thesis: Image-based methods for the identification of in-plane composite moduli at high strain rates.
	Dr Vinay SHEKAR Former Research fellow at the University of Southampton, 2021 – 2022 Focus: High strain rate testing of structural adhesives using the IBII and IBUS tests.