Biographies of Authors and Editors
Grant, David Ph.D.
Reader in Materials Science
University of Nottingham
School of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering
Nottingham, UK, NG7 2RD
E-mail: David.Grant@nottingham.ac.uk
Web-site: www.nottingham.ac.uk/biomaterial
David Grant, Ph.D., is a Reader in Materials Science at the University of Nottingham. Since joining the Materials Department in 1990 as a Lecturer he has built up a research team based on surface modification and characterization, shape memory materials and biomaterials. The strong overlap in these areas has led to a Biomaterials Group in which he is Leader. Prior to joining Nottingham University he spent six years as a research fellow at the OU Oxford Research Unit and the National Research Council of Canada. His current interests are surface modifications for barrier, haemocompatible and bioactive surfaces, aqueous sol-gel routes for doped oxide structures, multi-electrode array coatings, porous structures for tissue and cell engineering and shape memory alloys. The aim of understanding cell-surface interactions has led to many multidisciplinary interactions both within Nottingham University and Europe.
