The best place to start on this website is the thesis page, where you can view the contents, read the abstract and download all or part of the thesis. The Introduction also gives a good overview.
More information about the author, David Gamez, can be found at his personal website: www.davidgamez.eu. This project was supervised by Professor Owen Holland and funded by a grant from the EPSRC Adventure Fund (GR/S47946/01).