ORCID: orcid.org/0000-0001-9919-7357 ResearcherID: GYJ-3373-2022
Qualifications: MA (Oxon) MSc (Birmingham) PhD (Cantab) FInstP FRSC
Memberships: Royal Society of Chemistry (Fellow, 2011), Institute of Physics (Fellow, 2009), American Chemical Society
Education
PhD, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge (1990-1994) “Surface-induced phase transitions in thin polymer blend films”
MSc (by research), School of Physics and Space Research, University of Birmingham (1988-1990) “Experimental determination of the rate coefficients for, and neutral products of, dissociative recombination reactions using the Flowing Afterglow/Langmuir probe apparatus”
BA Physics, University of Oxford (1985-1988)
Employment
From 2019: Roland Cookson Chair in Engineering Materials, School of Engineering, Newcastle University
2000-2019: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield
2011-2019: Professor of Soft Matter Physics
2007-2010: Reader in Experimental Polymer Science
2005-2006: Senior Lecturer
2000-2005: Lecturer
1998-2000: Physikalische Chemie II, Universität Bayreuth, Germany (Postdoctoral Research Associate, in the group of Professor Georg Krausch)
1996-1998: Fakultät für Physik, Albert-Ludwigs Universität Freiburg, Germany (Alexander von Humboldt fellow, hosted by Professor Rüdiger Brenn)
1994-1996: Laboratoire Léon Brillouin, CEA-Saclay, France (Postdoctoral Research Associate, in the group of Dr François Boué)
Visiting positions
Visiting Professor, Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, February-July 2016,
Visiting Professor, Université de Bordeaux I (May-June 2010, August 2010, January 2011)
Visiting Professor, Université Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, January 2007