Personal Info

E-mail: claire.dancer(at)materials.ox.ac.uk

Tel: +44 (0) 1865 273787 

Web Links:  http://oxford.academia.edu/ClaireDancer; http://www.materials.ox.ac.uk/peoplepages/dancer.html

Academic Background: 

MA and MSci in Natural Sciences (Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, 2000–04); DPhil in Materials Science (Linacre College, University of Oxford, 2004–08); Research Fellow (Department of Materials, University of Oxford 2008–present); Non-Stipendiary Lecturer in Materials (St Anne’s College, University of Oxford, 2009–present).

Teaching Interests:

Prelims:

• Crystallography and Diffraction
• Defects in Crystals
• Ceramics and Semiconductors
• Thermodynamics, Kinetics and Electrochemistry
• Metallography

Finals:

• Surfaces and Interfaces
• Diffusion
• Ceramics and Glasses
• Microplasticity

Research Interests:

My research focusses on processing of advanced materials, in particular correlating the effect of systematic alterations to microstructure and composition on changes in macroscopic structural, mechanical and electrical properties. My current interests include superconducting ceramics, graded ceramic structures, ceramics for armour applications, and the fabrication of metamaterials by scalable polymer-based routes. 

Selected Publications:

C.E.J. Dancer, H.M. Curtis, S.M. Bennett, N. Petrinic and R.I. Todd
'High Strain Rate Indentation-Induced Deformation in Alumina Ceramics Measured by Cr3+ Fluorescence Mapping'
Journal of the European Ceramics Society 31 2177-87 (2011)
 
C.E.J. Dancer, R.I. Todd and C.R.M. Grovenor
'Ceramic Processing for Dense Magnesium Diboride'
Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceedings 32(9) 111-20 (2011)
 
C.E.J. Dancer, H.M. Curtis, S.M. Bennett, N. Petrinic and R.I. Todd
'Measurement of Deformation in Alumina Samples Indented at High Strain Rates'
Ceramic Engineering and Science Proceedings 32(5) 227-36 (2011)
 
C.E.J. Dancer, D. Prabhakaran, A. Crossley, R.I. Todd and C.R.M. Grovenor,
'Effects of Attrition and Ball Milling on the Properties of Magnesium Diboride',
Superconductor Science and Technology 23 065015 (2010)
 
E. Yanmaz, K. Ozturk, C.E.J. Dancer, M. Basoglu, S. Celik and C.R.M. Grovenor,
'Levitation force at different temperatures and superconducting properties of nano-structured MgB2 superconductors',
Journal of Alloys and Compounds 492 48–51(2010)
 
C.E.J. Dancer, D. Prabhakaran, M. Basoglu, E. Yanmaz, H. Yan, M. Reece, R.I. Todd and C.R.M. Grovenor,
‘Fabrication and properties of dense ex situ magnesium diboride bulk materials synthezised using spark plasma sintering’,
Superconductor Science and Technology 22, 095003 (2009)
 
C.E.J. Dancer, P. Mikheenko, A. Bevan, J.S. Abell, R.I. Todd and C.R.M. Grovenor,
‘A study of the sintering behaviour of magnesium diboride’,
Journal of the European Ceramic Society 29, 1817–24 (2009)