Dobson, Jones, Ross and Wood have extremely well supported X-ray, spectroscopy and synthesis laboratories.
Wood uses powder X-ray methods to study phase transformations and high T behaviour of materials.
Brodholt, Price and Vocadlo are leaders in the UK's effort in condensed matter modelling and have extensive access via peer review on the national Cray T3E supercomputer. Brodholt and Price head the NERC supported UK Computational Mineral Physics consortia. Chaplin and Harris work with Brodholt on modelling defects and aqueous solutions. Vocadlo works on the physical properties of Fe alloys and their relation to the interior of the Earth and other terrstrial planets.