Professor Peter McClintock
Research Professor, Emeritus ProfessorProfile
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
ESGCO-2016 International Conference on Biological Oscillations
Workshop on Fluctuations and Coherence 2011
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
Selected Publications
Physics of Biological Oscillators: New Insights into Non-Equilibrium and Non-Autonomous Systems
Stefanovska, A., McClintock, P.V.E. 6/05/2021 Cham : Springer. ISBN: 9783030598044. Electronic ISBN: 9783030598051.
Book
Physics of selective conduction and point mutation in biological ion channels
Gibby, W.A.T., Barabash, M.L., Guardiani, C., Luchinsky, D.G., McClintock, P.V.E. 28/05/2021 In: Physical review letters. 126, 21, 7 p.
Journal article
Origin and control of ionic hydration patterns in nanopores
Barabash, M.L., Gibby, W.A.T., Guardiani, C., Smolyanitsky, A., Luchinsky, D.G., McClintock, P.V.E. 18/06/2021 In: Communications Materials. 2
Journal article
Field-dependent dehydration and optimal ionic escape paths for C2N membranes
Barabash, M.L., Gibby, W.A.T., Guardiani, C., Luchinsky, D.G., Luan, B., Smolyanitsky, A., McClintock, P.V.E. 1/07/2021 In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 125, 25, p. 7044-7059. 16 p.
Journal article
Vibrational resonances in driven oscillators with position-dependent mass
Roy-Layinde, T.O., Vincent, U.E., Abolade, S.A., Popoola, O.O., Laoye, J.A., McClintock, P.V.E. 8/03/2021 In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London A. 379, 2192, p. 1-23. 23 p.
Journal article
Ionic Coulomb blockade and the determinants of selectivity in the NaChBac bacterial sodium channel
Fedorenko, O.A., Kaufman, I.K., Gibby, W.A.T., Barabash, M.L., Luchinsky, D.G., Roberts, S.K., McClintock, P.V.E. 1/09/2020 In: Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Biomembranes. 1862, 9, 9 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
Coherence and coupling functions reveal microvascular impairment in treated hypertension
Ticcinelli, V., Stankovski, T., Iatsenko, D., Bernjak, A., Bradbury, A., Gallagher, A., Clarkson, P.B.M., McClintock, P.V.E., Stefanovska, A. 13/10/2017 In: Frontiers in Physiology. 8, 20 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
Dissipation of quasiclassical turbulence in superfluid 4He
Zmeev, D.E., Walmsley, P.M., Golov, A.I., McClintock, P.V.E., Fisher, S.N., Vinen, W.F. 9/10/2015 In: Physical review letters. 115, 15, 5 p.
Journal article
All Publications
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 → 30/10/2021
Research
Microscopic dynamics of quantized vortices in turbulent superfluid in the T=0 limit
01/04/2017 → 30/09/2021
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
Materials World Network: Collaborative research on simple forms of Quantum Turbulence
01/10/2010 → 30/09/2014
Research
Supersolidity of crystalline helium
01/10/2010 → 31/03/2014
Research
Dynamics of cardiovascular ageing
01/10/2009 → 31/03/2012
Research
FEC code for PYA7886: Dynamics of cardiovascular ageing
01/10/2009 → …
Research
Nonlinear dynamics of selectivity, conductivity, and gating in biological ion channels
01/08/2009 → 30/06/2013
Research
Development of turbulence in submerged jets
01/04/2009 → 28/06/2009
Research
Synchronization and transport control in ensemble of globally coupled ratchets (Dr Uchechukwu Vincent)
30/03/2009 → 16/04/2011
Research
Critical and surface phenomena of quantum fluids
01/10/2008 → 31/10/2012
Research
Stochastic Webs: Fundamentals and applications
01/10/2008 → 30/09/2011
Research
Wave Turbulence in and on quantum fluids
01/04/2008 → 31/03/2011
Research
FP6 BRACCIA; Brain, respiration and cardiac causalities in anaesthesia
01/01/2005 → 01/09/2009
Other
Dynamics of quasiparticles: from molecular dynamics to ionic current
Oral presentation
Nonlinear and Biomedical Physics
Nonlinear and Biomedical Physics
Nonlinear and Biomedical Physics
- DSI - Health
- Low Temperature Physics
- Nonlinear and Biomedical Physics