Professor John Harding
MA PhD FRCS FinstP
School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
Professor of Materials Simulation


+44 114 222 5957
Full contact details
School of Chemical, Materials and Biological Engineering
Sir Robert Hadfield Building
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
- Profile
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John Harding joined the Department in 2004 from the Department of Physics and Astronomy, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø College London having previously worked at Harwell from 1978 to 1995.
- Research interests
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Real crystals stop somewhere; where and how they stop often determines their behaviour, how they nucleate and grow. A spectacular example of controlling crystallisation is the ability of living systems to grow minerals in complex shapes and sometimes unusual phases. The bulk properties of crystals, particularly transport properties, are often determined by point defects. These can be intrinsic, produced by doping, induced by exposure to radiation and so on. Understanding the behaviour of defects, interfaces and how they control crystal properties needs well-directed simulations in conjunction with state-of-the-art experiments. We therefore collaborate closely with experimental groups, using methods including: static lattice calculations, molecular dynamics, kinetic Monte Carlo, quantum mechanics, mesoscale and finite element simulations.
Key research interests:
- Nucleation and crystallisation (including biomineralisation)
- Modelling electroceramic materials
- Radiation damage in host materials for nuclear waste
- Geochemistry (particularly trace element partitioning)
- Simulation methods; particularly defects, interfaces and rare events
- Publications
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Books
Journal articles
Chapters
Conference proceedings papers
Presentations
Other
- Teaching activities
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- MAT1410 Biomaterials I
- MAT4600 Multiscale materials modelling
- Professional activities and memberships
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- Fellow of Royal Society of Chemistry and Institute of Physics
- Management Committee of ARCHER 2 consortium: "Materials Chemistry"
- CCP5 Scientific steering Committee
- Lecturer at CCP5 Annual International Summer School
- N8 Computing Centre of Excellence (steering committee)
- Sheffield Research Computing Advisory Committee (member)
- EPSRC Peer Review College
- Newton Fellowships Panel member (Royal Society)