Beverley joined the department in 2002, moving from The University of Oxford as a Royal Society URF in Nanomechanics. She is Professor of Nanostructured Materials, Director of the Sheffield NanoLAB/RCUK Basic Technology programme in Nanorobotics and Chair of the UK NanoFIB network.

Professional activities and recognition EPSRC Peer Review College Deputy-Chair: IOM3 Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology committee European Microscopy Congress scientific programme committee and Chair of the Advances in Ion Microscopy symposium Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal Materials Characterisation

Mechanical and functional properties of metals and ceramics at the nanoscale Nanotribology; friction and surface wear, nanoindentation Technologies for nanoscale joining/welding Development of SEM/TEM Nanorobotics technologies: to simultaneously image, manipulate and test materials down to the atomic scale Electrical properties of nanostructures Nanoprocessing and nanoanalysis using focused ion beams (FIB) 3D TEM, SEM and FIB microstructural analysis, tomography, in-situ TEM

AJ Lockwood, K Anantheshwara, MS Bobji, BJ Inkson, Friction formed Liquid droplets, Nanotechnology, 22, 10, 105703 (2011). K Anantheshwara, AJ Lockwood, RK Mishra, BJ Inkson, MS Bobji, Dynamical Evolution of Wear Particles in Nanocontacts, Tribol Letters, 45, 2, 229-235 (2012). JJ Wang, AJ Lockwood, Y Peng, X Xu, MS Bobji, BJ Inkson, Formation of carbon nanostructures by in-situ TEM mechanical nanoscale fatigue and fracture of carbon thin films, Nanotechnology, 20, 30, 305703 (2009). Y Peng, AG Cullis, BJ Inkson, Bottom-up construction by welding individual nanoobjects using nanoscale solder, NanoLett, 9, 1, 91-96 (2009). Y Peng, AG Cullis, BJ Inkson, Accurate electrical testing of individual gold nanowires by in-situ SEM nanomanipulators, Appl Phys Lett, 93, 183112 (2008) and the Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science & Technology, 18, 20 (2008) F. Elfallagh, B.J. Inkson, Evolution of residual stress and crack morphologies during 3D FIB tomographic analysis of alumina, J. Microsc., 230, 2, 240-251 (2008). G. Möbus, B.J. Inkson, Nanoscale tomography in materials science, Materials Today, 10, 12, 18-25 (2007). M.D. Uchic, L. Holzer, BJ Inkson, E.L. Principe, P. Munroe, 3D Microstructural Characterization using Focused Ion Beam Tomography, MRS Bulletin, 32, 5, 408-416 (2007). M.S Bobji, C.S. Ramanujan, J.B. Pethica, B.J. Inkson, A miniaturized TEM nanoindenter for studying material deformation in-situ, Meas. Sci. Technol., 17, 1324-1329 (2006).