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Secondments

• Mr Janusz Michalcewicz (MER) from EUROTECH to RUT (01.06.2012 - 31.07.2012)
• Prof. Feliks Stachowicz (MER) from RUT to ISOTOP (01.06.2012 - 31.07.2012)
• Mr Genadi Liskevich (MER) from ISOTOP LTD to AU (01.08.2012 - 30.09.2012)
• Mr Viktor Slepyan (MER) from LPMC to LU (01.08.2012 - 30.09.2012)
• Ms Magdalena Sledz (ESR) from RUT to ISOTOP (01.10.2012 - 31.03.2013)
• Prof. Gennady Mishuris (MER) from AU to ISOTOP (01.11.2012 - 31.12.2012)
• Mr Janusz Michalcewicz (MER) from EUROTECH to AU (01.12.2012 - 31.01.2013)
• Dr Wiktoria Miszuris (MER) from AU to EUROTECH (01.02.2013 - 31.07.2013)
• Mr Viktor Slepyan (MER) from LPMC to TAU (17.02.2013 - 16.10.2013)
• Mr Lukasz Bak (ESR) from RUT to LPMC (01.04.2013 - 30.09.2013)
• Mr Vaibhav Phadnis (ESR) from LU to EUROTECH (12.04.2013 - 14.03.2014)
• Dr Vladi Frid (MER) from ISOTOP to RUT (01.07.2013 - 31.08.2013)
• Mr Abolfazl Zahedi (ESR) from LU to EUROTECH (01.09.2013 - 31.08.2014)
• Prof. Vladimir Babitsky (MER) from LU to ISOTOP (01.10.2013 - 30.11.2013)
• Mr Lukasz Bak (ESR) from RUT to EUROTECH (01.12.2013 - 30.11.2014)
• Mr Alessandro Schiavone (ESR) from LU to ISOTOP (1.03.2014 – 31.08.2014)
• Mr Gayan A. Abeygunawardane-Arachchige (ESR) from LU to EUROTECH (7.07.2014 – 4.02.2015)
• Dr Wiktoria Miszuris (MER) from AU to EUROTECH (1.08.2014 – 30.04.2015)
• Dr Igor Loginov (MER) from LPMC to RUT (1.10.2014 – 30.11.2014)
• Prof. Sergei Rogosin (MER) from AU to EUROTECH (1.11.2014 – 28.02.2015)
• Miss Jane O’Neill (ESR) from UoL to ISOTOP (3.11.2014 – 2.05.2015)
• Dr Özgur Selsil (MER) from UoL to ISOTOP (3.11.2014 – 2.01.2015)
• Dr Adam Velender (ER) from AU to EUROTECH (01.12.14 – 31.01.15, 23.03.15 – 14.04.15, 01.05.15 - 30.09.15)
• Mr Daniel Peck (ESR) from AU to ISOTOP (01.03.2015 – 31.12.2015)
• Mr Javad Falsafi (MER) from LU to LPMC (15.03.2015 - 14.09.2015)
• Mr Mayao Wang (ESR) from LU to LPMC (15.04.2015 - 30.10.2015)
• Miss Jane O’Neill (ESR) from UoL to EUROTECH (3.05.2015 – 2.11.2015)
• Dr Vladi Frid (MER) from ISOTOP to LU (15.06.2015 - 14.08.2015)
• Dr Wiktoria Miszuris (MER) from AU to ISOTOP (1.11.2015 – 31.12.2015)
• Dr Michal Wrobel (ER) from AU to ISOTOP (1.11.2015 – 31.12.2015)

Recruitments

• Dr Quoc Chi Nguen (ER) in TAU (06.01.2013 - 05.01.2014)
• Prof Ross McPhedran (MER) in UoL (14.02.2013 - 13.02.2014)
• Dr Hugo Santos (ER) in LU (04.03.2013 - 03.03.2014)
• Prof Leonid Slepyan (MER) in AU (01.05.2013 - 30.04.2014)

Awards

• Best paper at the First Summer School on Micromechanics: Mr Daniel Peck was awarded the first prize in paper competition at the First Summer School on Micromechanics held in Bezmiechowa, Poland on June 3-13, 2015.
• Royal Society's Wolfson Research Merit Award for the project coordinator: Prof Gennady Mishuris's work has been recognised by the Royal Society with the Wolfson Research Merit Award in November 2016 for his research in area of dynmamic fracture of lattice structures (details here).
• Nomination for The James Clerk Maxwell Writers Prize: Mr Daniel Peck is a candidate for the 2016 James Clerk Maxwell Writers Prize awarded by the editors of Philosophical Magazine and Philosophical Magazine Letters in partnership with the James Clerk Maxwell Foundation to a talented PhD researcher published in either of the journals. Mr Peck is being considered for the award with the paper 'Resolution of the threshold fracture energy paradox for solid particle erosion' which he wrote with G.Volkov, G.Mishuris and Yu.Petrov.

Publications of historical value

• The energy flux condition proposed in the 2012 L. Slepyan and M.Brun paper “Driving forces in moving-contact problems of dynamic elasticity: indentation, wedging and free sliding” has, in effect, answered the question set by H.G. Georgiadis and J.R. Barber in "On the super-Rayleigh/subseismic elastodynamic indentation problem" 7 years earlier than the authors expected the progress to be made.
  The conclusions to the latter paper read: "The present paper clearly raises many more questions than it solves, but these questions are very pressing and are apparently being neglected by the elasto- dynamic community. We shall have achieved our objective if we succeed in generating sufficient interest in this challenging problem to ensure that some progress will be made in the next 26 years." It was, however, in less than two decades that the question was solved. "
  “I shall certainly include a significant section of my proposed book explaining this and giving a prominent place to your results,” wrote Prof. James Barber in personal correspondence with the authors. Prof. Barber holds the title of Jon R. and Beverly S. Holt Professor of Engineering, Arthur F. Thurnau Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanicsat the Department of Mechanical Engineering at University of Michigan, and is a leading international expert in this research area.
• The 2015 paper 'On the energy partition in oscillations and waves' by L.Slepyan gives, after 138 years, the 'general treatment' of the energy partition problem set by Lord Rayleigh, as was recently noted by the author. It should be mentioned that it's the first time the problem was generally considered after Lord Rayleigh wrote about it in 1877, even though the topic was repeatedly brought up in the literature since.