Dr Jeffrey Alcock
Reader
Location: Building 61, Cranfield campus
E: j.r.alcock@cranfield.ac.uk
T: +44 (0)1234 754185
Materials
Current activities
- Design rules for biomedical and health monitoring micro-devices
- Service and product-service requirement effects on micro-device design
- Integration of functional elements in micro-devices
- Polymer micro-injection moulding and powder micro-injection moulding
- Design and manufacture of 3-D microdevices
- Process methodologies for implantable biomedical tissue scaffolds
- Biomedical implant and tool design and manufacture.
Clients
- EPSRC
- RCUK
- KTP
- Battenfeld UK
- BrainLAB AG
- Medecell Ltd.
Background
Dr Jeffrey Alcock gained his BSc and PhD at the University of Leeds. He spent three years as a visiting scientist at the Risø National Laboratory in Denmark, in the Danish Centre for Advanced Technical Ceramics, before joining Cranfield University in 1995. He was awarded a lectureship at Cranfield in 1997, a senior lectureship in 2002 and became a reader in 2008. His areas of expertise are micro-device design and fabrication, micro-injection moulding, powder processing science and technology, tribology of materials, and magnetic properties of materials. His current research is concentrated in the medical devices sector, particularly on prototyping and manufacture of devices for point of care testing, and the design of those devices for services.
To date, Dr Alcock has held EPSRC and IMRC grants worth more than £3.5 million. He has been principal investigator on a two-year Teaching Company Scheme project, analysing process scale up techniques. He is currently an investigator on the £9 million EPSRC 3D-Mintegration Grand Challenge project, as well as on three IMRC grants, including a grant on the implications of the product-service-systems approach to micro-device design.
He has been awarded a £100,000 grant from the East of England Development Agency (EEDA) for facilities development at Cranfield. He has also received a £125,000 Research Councils UK grant to support a new-blood academic fellow at Cranfield. Dr Alcock recently held an £80,000 EPSRC Public Partnership Award the purpose of which is to attract young people into science and engineering. Dr Alcock is a professional member of the Institute of Materials, for which he serves as vice-chair of the Ceramics Science Committee. He is a chartered scientist. He was appointed to the EPSRC Peer Review College in 2003.
Selected publications
- Shaw, C. P., Whatmore, R. W. and Alcock, J. R. (2007), "Porous, functionally gradient pyroelectric materials", Journal of the American Ceramic Society, vol. 90, no. 1, pp. 137-142
- Linardos, S., Zhang, Q. and Alcock, J. R. (2006), "Preparation of sub-micron PZT particles with the sol-gel technique", Journal of the European Ceramic Society, vol. 26, no. 1-2, pp. 117-123
- Shaw, C. P., Gupta, S., Stringfellow, S. B., Navarro, A., Alcock, J. R. and Whatmore, R. W. (2002), "Pyroelectric properties of Mn-doped lead zirconate-lead titanate-lead magnesium niobate ceramics", Journal of the European Ceramic Society, vol. 22, no. 13, pp. 2123-2132
- Kwan, Y. B. P., Stephenson, D. J. and Alcock, J. R. (2001), "Dependence of pore size distribution on porosity in hot isostatically pressed porous alumina", Journal of Porous Materials, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 119-127.
