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

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Dr Richard Sear

Soft Matter Group Leader

Academic staff

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Dr Wooli Bae

Lecturer in Experimental Soft Matter Physics

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Professor David Faux

Professor of Physics

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Dr Isabella Guido

Senior Lecturer in Experimental Biological Physics

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Dr Izabela Jurewicz

Lecturer in Soft Matter

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Professor Joseph Keddie

Professor of Soft Matter Physics

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Professor Peter McDonald

Professor of Physics

Research staff

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Dr Yuxiu Chen

Research Fellow

Dr Ian Williams

Research Fellow

Technical support staff

Agata Gajewicz-Jaromin

Research (Soft Matter) and Teaching Laboratory Technician

Postgraduate research students

NameResearch area
Arifah RahamanSoft Matter (EU ITN RAMP)
Rohani Abu BakarSoft Matter
Miryea BorgSoft Matter (EU ITN RAMP)
Katrin ElidottirSoft Matter
Ors IstokSoft Matter (EU ITN ERICA)
Joe HallSoft Matter (EngD)
Sam HendersonSoft Matter (EngD)
Zhiwei HuangSoft Matter
Magdalena JanotaSoft Matter (EU ITN ERICA)
Toby PalmerSoft Matter
Thomas WatersSoft Matter
Zak MarshallSoft Matter