Research output per year
Research output per year
Prof, Regius Professor of Materials
Professor Philip Withers obtained his PhD in Metallurgy at Cambridge University and took up a lectureship there, before taking up a Chair in Manchester in 1998. His interests lie in applying advanced techniques to follow the behaviour of engineering and natural materials in real time and in 3D, often as they operate under demanding conditions. In 2005 he was elected to the Royal Academy of Engineering and in 2008 set up the Henry Moseley X-ray Imaging Facility, which is now one of the most extensive suites of 3D X-ray Imaging facilities in the world.
Awarded the Royal Society Armourers & Brasiers’ Company Prize for pioneering use of neutron and X-ray beams to map stresses and image components in 2010, his work underpins the scientific basis by which we can predict component failure. In 2012, Philip became the inaugural Director of the BP International Centre for Advanced Materials aimed understanding and developing materials across the energy sector. In 2014, the University of Manchester was awarded the Queen’s Anniversary Prize, recognising the Manchester X-ray Imaging Facility’s work. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2016. In 2017 he became the inaugural Regius Professor of Materials and Chief Scientist of the newly founded Henry Royce Institute for Advanced Materials.
In establishing correlative tomography, he is currently linking together X-ray and electron imaging to locate and track a 3D region of interest from metre to the nanometres length-scale. In 2017 he Chaired the UK Neutron Strategic Review for the Research Councils.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Chapter in Book/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Lee, P. (PI), Prangnell, P. (CoI), Preuss, M. (CoI) & Withers, P. (CoI)
1/10/16 → 30/09/23
Project: Research
Withers, P. (PI) & Burnett, T. (CoI)
1/10/16 → 31/01/21
Project: Research
Withers, P. (PI), Lee, P. (CoI) & Lionheart, W. (CoI)
29/08/15 → 28/08/20
Project: Research
Withers, P. (PI), Burke, G. (CoI), Cernik, R. (CoI), Haigh, S. (CoI), Lee, P. (CoI) & Lionheart, W. (CoI)
1/02/15 → 31/01/20
Project: Research
Withers, P. (PI), Ainsworth, R. (PI), Lindsay, R. (PI), Francis, J. (CoI), Roy, M. (CoI), Wright, M. (Support team), Verheyden, T. (Support team), Al Aboura, Y. (PGR student), Aldhous, P. (PGR student), Anders, A. (PGR student), Armitage, T. (PGR student), Bashat, M. (PGR student), Brown, A. (PGR student), Buxton, O. (PGR student), Cakstins, J. (PGR student), Cassineri, S. (PGR student), Chandarana, N. (PGR student), Chapman, N. (PGR student), Craske, D. (PGR student), Curd, M. (PGR student), Dowhyj, M. (PGR student), Elms, J. (PGR student), Fox, C. (PGR student), Ghosal, A. (PGR student), Giunta, G. (PGR student), Guo, Y. (PGR student), Jahangiri-Haghighi, H. (PGR student), Han, Q. (PGR student), Hernández, M. (PGR student), Hull, G. (PGR student), Iakovakis, E. (PGR student), Jalil, R. (PGR student), Jones, C. (PGR student), Jordanov, M. (PGR student), Kablan, A. (PGR student), Kapousidou, M. (PGR student), Kindermann, R. (PGR student), Kotsovinos, A. E. (PGR student), Kousar, K. (PGR student), Liubercev, S. (PGR student), Manchester, T. (PGR student), Matev, N. (PGR student), Mazzei, G. (PGR student), Mccormack, S. (PGR student), Moorcroft, R. (PGR student), Moulton, J. (PGR student), Nawaz, M. (PGR student), Palko, S. (PGR student), Pearson, W. (PGR student), Ragnauth, H. (PGR student), Raymond, J. (PGR student), Razali, M. (PGR student), Rollings, L. (PGR student), Ruiz, D. (PGR student), Rzeszutek, K. (PGR student), Shore, D. (PGR student), Stoyanov, N. (PGR student), Suleman, T. (PGR student), Supornpaibul, N. (PGR student), Tran, K. (PGR student), Traverse, L. (PGR student), Walsh, M. (PGR student), Wild, J. (PGR student), Taylor, A. (PGR student), Young, J. (PGR student), Xu, X. D. (PGR student) & Wang, H. (PGR student)
1/10/14 → 30/09/22
Project: Research
Withers, P. (Recipient), 2014
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
Withers, P. (Recipient), 2019
Prize: Election to learned society
Withers, P. (Academic expert member)
Activity: Membership › Membership of grants peer review panel › Research
Withers, P. (Academic expert member)
Activity: Membership › Membership of committee › Research
Withers, P. (Academic expert member)
Activity: Membership › Membership of grants peer review panel › Research
Withers, P. (Academic expert member)
Activity: Membership › Membership of grants peer review panel › Research
Withers, P. (Member of editorial board)
Activity: Publication peer-review and editorial work › Editorial work › Research
Withers, P. (Participant), Clitheroe, S. (Participant), (Participant), (Participant), (Participant), (Participant), (Participant), Frankel, P. (Participant) & Preuss, M. (Participant)
Impact: Economic, Technological
Withers, P. (Participant), Preuss, M. (Participant), (Participant), (Participant) & (Participant)
Impact: Economic, Technological, Environmental
Cruickshank, S. (Participant), Else, K. (Participant), Pennock, J. (Participant), Grencis, R. (Participant), MacDonald, A. (Participant) & Withers, P. (Participant)
Impact: Health and wellbeing
Withers, P. (Participant), Preuss, M. (Participant), Quinta Da Fonseca, J. (Participant), Xiao, P. (Participant) & (Participant)
Impact: Society and culture, Technological
Jørgensen, J. S. (Creator), Coban, S. (Creator), Lionheart, W. (Creator), Mcdonald, S. (Creator) & Withers, P. (Creator), Zenodo, 30 Jan 2017
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.290117, https://zenodo.org/record/290117
Dataset
Gajjar, P. (Creator), Jorgensen, J. (Creator), Godinho, J. (Creator), Johnson, C. (Creator), Ramsey, A. (Creator) & Withers, P. (Creator), Zenodo, 20 Mar 2018
Dataset
Bourne, N. (Contributor), Garcea, S. (Contributor), Eastwood, D. (Contributor), Parry, S. (Contributor), Rau, C. (Contributor), Withers, P. (Contributor), Mcdonald, S. (Contributor) & Brown, E. N. (Contributor), figshare , 9 Jan 2017
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3660956.v1, https://figshare.com/collections/Supplementary_material_from_On_compression_and_damage_evolution_in_two_thermoplastics_/3660956/1
Dataset
C.A, S. (Contributor), P, L.-C. (Contributor), Withers, P. (Contributor), S, K. (Contributor), T, C. (Contributor) & M, M. (Contributor), Mendeley Data, 8 Nov 2018
DOI: 10.17632/54ndym3ym9.1, https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/54ndym3ym9
Dataset
Prajapati, A. (Creator), Morse, S. (Creator), Chirazi, A. (Creator), Burnett, T. (Creator) & Withers, P. (Creator), University of Manchester Figshare, Aug 2021
DOI: 10.1016/j.dib.2021.107157, http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4541235
Dataset
19/11/18
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
Connolly, B., Vijayaraghavan, A., Withers, P. & Buckley, I.
8/11/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert comment
4/09/17
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
7/07/17
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research
21/02/17
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Research