
People
We are a friendly group of students and staff, led by five academics, and working on both pure and applied soft matter physics.
Staff and students
Head of the group

Dr Richard Sear
Soft Matter Group Leader
Academic staff

Dr David Faux
Reader

Dr Izabela Jurewicz
Lecturer in Soft Matter

Professor Joseph Keddie
Professor of Soft Matter Physics

Professor Peter McDonald
Professor of Physics
Research staff

Dr Yuxiu Chen
Research Fellow

Dr Sara Naderizadeh
Research Fellow
Technical support staff
Name | Role | Phone | |
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Agata Gajewicz-Jaromin | Research (Soft Matter) and Teaching Laboratory Technician | agata.gajewicz@surrey.ac.uk | |
Violeta Doukova | Research Laboratory Technician (Surrey Materials Institute) | v.doukova@surrey.ac.uk | +44 (0)1483 686856 |
Postgraduate research students
Name | Research area |
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Arifah Rahaman | Soft Matter (EU ITN RAMP) |
Robin Adey-Johnson | Soft Matter (EngD) |
Rohani Abu Bakar | Soft Matter |
Virgina Apostolopoulou | Soft Matter (EU ITN RAMP) |
Miryea Borg | Soft Matter (EU ITN RAMP) |
Katrin Elidottir | Soft Matter |
Ors Istok | Soft Matter (EU ITN ERICA) |
Joe Hall | Soft Matter (EngD) |
Sam Henderson | Soft Matter (EngD) |
Magdalena Janota | Soft Matter (EU ITN ERICA) |
Toby Palmer | Soft Matter |
Dan Parrish | Soft Matter (EngD) |
Malin Schulz | Soft Matter |
Thomas Waters | Soft Matter |

Soft matter students working in our labs