Professor Peter McClintock

Research Professor, Emeritus Professor

Profile

Biographical Sketch:

Born: Omagh, co. Tyrone, 17 October 1940
Educated: Queen's University, Belfast (BSc 1962), University of Oxford (DPhil 1966)
Employment: Junior Demonstrator, Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford 1963-1966; Research Associate, Duke University, 1966 - 1968; Research Associate 1968, Lecturer 1970, Senior Lecturer 1979, Reader 1983, Professor 1991, all a Lancaster University
Miscellaneous: DSc, Queen's University, Belfast 1983; FInstP 1983; SERC/EPSRC Senior Fellowship 1990 - 1995; Chair, Standing Conference of Professors of Physics (UK and Ireland) 2003 - 2005.
Head of Department of Physics, Lancaster University 1997 - 2003.

Research Interests

Research has included work on: (a) magnetism including, especially, studies of spin-phonon interactions in rare-earth ethylsulphate crystals; (b) quantum fluids and liquid helium-4 in particular; (c) nonlinear dynamics and fluctuational phenomena including applications to physiology.

Current research centres on low temperature physics and nonlinear dynamics and biomedical physics.

External Collaborations:

Active collaborations, supported mainly by EPSRC and the Royal Society, include links with:

Institute for Semiconductor Physics, Kiev
Institute of Solid State Physics RAL, Chernogolovka

Michigan State University
Moscow State University
Pisa University
University of Birmingham
University of Florida
University of Manchester
University of Ljubljana
Redeemer's University

Conferences

Physics of Biological Oscillators: New Insights into Non-Equilibrium and Non-Autonomous Systems in Chicheley Hall, 27-30 November 2018

ESGCO-2016 International Conference on Biological Oscillations

Workshop on Fluctuations and Coherence 2011

BRACCIA Conference 2008

Editorial:

Editor in Chief of Fluctuation and Noise Letters. Currently serving on the Scientific Advisory Committee of Nonlinear Biomedical Physics and the Editorial Boards of Contemporary Physics, and Nonlinear Phenomena in Complex Systems.

Research Overview

My research interests centre on nonlinearity in physical and biomedical systems. Work with colleagues and international collaborators focuses on the superfluidity of liquid He-4 and its breakdown through production of rotons or quantized vortices above critical velocities – requiring the preparation and use of isotopically pure He-4. Research on the stochastic dynamics of nonlinear oscillators and large fluctuations illuminates: classical turbulence; wave turbulence and quantum turbulence in superfluids; neutron dynamics in fluid helium; origins of rogue waves; selective passage of ions through biological ion channels; and the nonlinear dynamics of ageing, anaesthesia, autism, brain function and cardiovascular diseases.

PhD Supervision Interests

Physics of biological ion channels

Publications
Projects
Activities
PhD Students
Research Groups

Selected Publications

Exploring the pore charge dependence of K+ and Cl- permeation across a graphene monolayer: a Molecular Dynamics study
Guardiani, C., Gibby, W.A.T., Barabash, M.L., Luchinsky, D.G., McClintock, P.V.E. 1/07/2019 In: RSC Advances. 9, 35, p. 20402-20414. 13 p.
Journal article

On the suitability of laser-Doppler flowmetry for capturing microvascular blood flow dynamics from darkly pigmented skin
Abdussalam, Y.A., Lancaster, G., McClintock, P.V.E., Stefanovska, A. 30/07/2019 In: Physiological Measurement. 40, 7, 12 p.
Journal article

Vibrational resonance in an oscillator with an asymmetrical deformable potential
Vincent, U.E., Roy-Layinde, T.O., Popoola, O.O., Adesina, P.O., McClintock, P.V.E. 5/12/2018 In: Physical Review E. 98, 6, 11 p.
Journal article

Coupling functions: universal insights into dynamical interaction mechanisms
Stankovski, T., Pereira, T., McClintock, P.V.E., Stefanovska, A. 6/11/2017 In: Reviews of Modern Physics. 89, 4, 50 p.
Journal article

Ionic Coulomb blockade and anomalous mole fraction effect in the NaChBac bacterial ion channel and its charge-varied mutants
Kaufman, I.K., Fedorenko, O., Luchinsky, D., Gibby, W., Roberts, S.K., McClintock, P.V.E., Eisenberg, R.S. 11/09/2017 In: EPJ Nonlinear Biomedical Physics. 5, 8 p.
Journal article

Calorimetric observation of single He2* excimers in a 100 mK He bath
Carter, F.W., Hertel, S.A., McClintock, P.V.E., McKinsey, D.N., Prober, D.E. 02/2017 In: Journal of Low Temperature Physics. 186, 3, p. 183-196. 14 p.
Journal article

Ionic Coulomb blockade
Kaufman, I.K., McClintock, P.V.E. 08/2016 In: Nature Materials. 15, 2 p.
Book/Film/Article review

Workshop on non-autonomous oscillatory systems and their applications in the life sciences
01/06/2018 → 30/11/2019
Research

Conduction and selectivity between monovalent ions within the potassium channel
01/11/2017 → 31/10/2020
Research

Microscopic dynamics of quantized vortices in turbulent superfluid in the T=0 limit
01/04/2017 → 31/03/2021
Research

A device to detect and measure the progression of dementia by quantifying the interactions between neuronal and cardiovascular oscillations
01/05/2015 → 31/10/2018
Research

Ionic Coulomb blockade oscillations and the physical origins of permeation, selectivity, and their mutation transformations in biological ion channels
01/04/2015 → 30/09/2018
Research

H2020: COSMOS
01/01/2015 → 31/08/2019
Research

Superfluid 3He at UltraLow Temperatures
01/07/2013 → 31/03/2018
Research

Quasiparticle imaging and superfluid flow experiments at ultralow temperatures
01/10/2011 → 30/09/2015
Research

Physics of non-autonomous systems in the life sciences
01/05/2011 → 31/03/2015
Research

Transition to turbulence in spatially inhomgeneous systems
01/05/2011 → 30/09/2011
Research

Interdiciplinary workshop on fluctuations and coherence: from superfluids to living systems
01/04/2011 → 31/03/2012
Research