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The Laser Group
at Liverpool

Lairdside Laser
Engineering Centre
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The Laser Group at Liverpool

  •  The History of the Laser Group at Liverpool
    The Laser Group, part of the Department of Engineering at the University of Liverpool, is the UK's largest University based research group in laser materials processing. Together with the newly commissioned Laser Engineering Centre at Lairdside, the facilities at Liverpool are a resource of international importance with state of the art high power laser equipment for the research and industrial development of welding, cutting, marking, surface treatments and novel laser based processes.
    The Group is led by Ken Watkins who has over ten year's experience and over 100 publications in the laser engineering field, particularly in the area of surface treatments and novel laser based processes. Professor Watkins is Director of the Laser Group and Director of the Laser Engineering Centre. Currently the Group consists of over 20 scientists, technicians and support staff.
    The origins of the laser activity at Liverpool lie with Professor Bill Steen at Imperial College in the 1970's. In 1988, Professor Steen moved the group to Liverpool to take up the James Bibby Chair of Engineering Manufacture, established by Dr Mason Bibby in honour of his father.


  •  Staff and students in the Laser Engineering Group and their email addresses

Ken Watkins

Professor
Head of Laser Group
Director
Lairdside Laser Engineering Centre

k.watkins@liverpool.ac.uk

Geoff Dearden

Senior Lecturer
Deputy Director
Lairdside Laser Engineering Centre

g.dearden@liverpool.ac.uk

Eamonn Fearon

Manager
Lairdside Laser Engineering Centre

fearon@liv.ac.uk.

Antonela Dima Marie Curie Research Fellow adima@liverpool.ac.uk
Nikolas Semaltianos Marie Curie Research Fellow nsemalti@liverpool.ac.uk
Walter Perrie Research Fellow wpfemto1@liverpool.ac.uk
Stuart Edwardson Research Associate s.p.edwardson@liverpool.ac.uk

Carmel Rawcliffe (nee Curran)

Research Associate

C.Curran@liverpool.ac.uk

Imtiyaz Ahmed Ansari Research Associate   I.A.Ansari@liverpool.ac.uk

Andrea Jones

Administrative Assistant

A.M.Jones@liverpool.ac.uk

Andy Snaylam

Technician
Laboratory Manager

andysnay@liverpool.ac.uk

Chris Carey PhD Student c.carey@liverpool.ac.uk
Jack Mullett PhD Student J.D.Mullett@liverpool.ac.uk
Kenneth Edwards PhD Student kre@liverpool.ac.uk
Dan Wellburn PhD Student d.wellburn@liv.ac.uk
Dun Liu PhD Student Dun.Liu@liverpool.ac.uk
Craig Williams PhD Student C.J.Williams@liverpool.ac.uk
Jian Cheng PhD Student Jian.Cheng@liverpool.ac.uk
Zheng Kuang PhD Student Z.Kuang@liverpool.ac.uk
Taku Sato PhD Student T.Sato@liverpool.ac.uk
Joseph Croft PhD Student joninho@liverpool.ac.uk
Leigh Mellor PhD Student pp0u30d3@liverpool.ac.uk
Wei Zhang PhD Student vicivio@liverpool.ac.uk
Spencer Shuo Shang PhD Student sshang@liverpool.ac.uk
Jonathan Griffiths PhD Student cc0u412e@liverpool.ac.uk
Paul Fitzsimons PhD Student cc0u310c@liverpool.ac.uk
Klaus Kleine PhD Student (Guidant) kkleine@guidant.com

Bill Steen

Emeritus Professor

w.steen@btinternet.com