Dr Chris Ewels biography

I have a CV available on request. There is also list of my publications and posters on my work.

Trustee for the Vega Science Trust science communication charity
Committee Member of the British Carbon Group
Co-organiser of the NanoteC international nanocarbon conference series
Recipient of the 2006 EU Marie Curie Excellence Award

Currently:

• Oct 2005- : CNRS French Research Fellow (CR1) at the Institute of Materials, Nantes (CNRS UMR6502).
  Computer modelling of impurities and active sites in nanostructures. Design of new hybrid materials based on carbon nanotubes and oxide nanomaterials (applications in nanoelectronics, photovoltaics, gas sensing, catalysis, ...)

• 2003-2005 : Marie Curie Individual Research Fellowship, in the STEM group at the LPS in Orsay. Modelling defects and defect spectroscopy in nanostructures, and EELS microscopy of new nanomaterials.
• 2002-2003: TMR Research Fellow in the COMELCAN network at ONERA French Aerospace research centre in Chatillon, Paris, developing new carbon nanotube based composite materials. Experimental research including epoxy resin-nanotube and ceramic-nanotube composite design, production and testing (mechanical and microscopy).
• 1999-2002: The Vega Science Trust with Gill Watson and Sir Harry Kroto NL on science broadcasting and communication (...more).
• 1999-2002: Research fellow in Theoretical Chemistry at the University of Sussex, Brighton, with Prof. M. I. Heggie, studying nanostructures, hydrogen interactions with graphite and dislocations in bulk semiconductors (...more).
• Spent 1998 backpacking; some travel stories are available.
• 1997: Nine months post-doctoral research at Sussex plus two months in Luleå, Sweden working with Sven Öberg.
• 1994-1997: Research Assistant in the Department of Physics at the University of Exeter.
  PhD with Prof. R. Jones using AIMPRO, a DFT code using hydrogen terminated clusters to simulate defects in crystals. This included oxygen defects in silicon, hydrogenated defects in InP, and theoretical modelling of STM images.
• Summer 1995 at CINECA, the Italian centre for supercomputing in Casalecchio, Bologna (here's my report).
• 1993: The Powder Metallurgy Research Centre, Max Planck Institute, Stuttgart, doing thermodynamic computation and ceramic powder hot pressing experiments on SiC / Si₃N₄ / TiCN combinations (a 4th year project / diplomarbeit).
• 1989-1993: Undergraduate in the Department of Materials and Keble College, Oxford University, studying "Metallurgy and the Science of Materials".