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Committee

Name	Position	Department
Professor Suzanne Fielding	DCSM Chair	Department of Physics Theoretical and computational rheology, flow instabilities, ageing of disordered soft materials, demixing, porous media, wetting, active matter
Dr Mark Miller	DCSM Director	Department of Chemistry Simulation methodology, self-assembly, clusters, percolation, knots, energy landscapes
Professor Halim Kusumaatmaja	Member	Department of Physics Wetting and interfacial phenomena; multiphase flow; membrane biophysics; lattice Boltzmann method; energy landscape theory
Dr Richard Thompson	Member	Department of Chemistry Surfaces and interfaces, scattering and rheology
Professor Kislon Voitchovsky	Member	Department of Physics Solid-liquid interfaces, atomic force microscopy, nanotribology, ionic effects, biomembranes
Dr Fabian Wadsworth	Member	Department of Earth Sciences Magma as soft matter; silicate liquid droplets; viscous sintering

Members

Name	Position
Professor Colin Bain	Vice-Provost (Research) Director of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Soft Matter and Formulation for Industrial Innovation (SOFI² CDT) Professor in the Department of Chemistry
Dr John Bothwell	Department of Biosciences
Dr Elizabeth Bromley	Department of Physics
Professor Karl Coleman	Head of the Department of Chemistry
Dr Sharon Cooper	Department of Chemistry
Dr Matteo Degiacomi	Department of Physics Biomolecular simulation, protein assembly, integrative modelling
Professor Kiran Fernandes	Business School Open innovation and commercialisation, process design, complex systems analysis
Professor Philip Gaskell	Department of Engineering
Dr Chris Groves	Department of Engineering Plastic electronics, photovoltaics
Dr David Hoyle	Department of Chemistry Theoretical and experimental rheology; polymeric computational fluid dynamics; constitutive modelling; advanced methods for rheological characterisation of polymers; industrial research problems
Professor Lian Hutchings	Professor in the Department of Chemistry Manager of the Centre for Doctoral Training in Soft Matter and Formulation for Industrial Innovation (SOFI² CDT) Synthetic polymer chemistry, especially living anionic polymerisation for synthesis of novel architectures and sequence control. Polymer characterisation by chromatography, including size exclusion chromatography and temperature gradient interaction chromatography
Professor Ritu Kataky	Department of Chemistry Electrochemistry of soft matter, electrochemistry at liquid-liquid interfaces, ion transfer, electron transfer
Dr Matthew Kitching	Department of Chemistry Synthetic organic chemistry; dynamic chemistry and the autonomous spatial and temporal patterning of materials using biomimetic methods
Professor Halim Kusumaatmaja	Department of Physics Wetting and interfacial phenomena; multiphase flow; membrane biophysics; lattice Boltzmann method; energy landscape theory
Professor Ed Llewellin	Department of Earth Sciences Magma rheology; suspension rheology; volcanological fluid dynamics
Dr Clare Mahon	Department of Chemistry Synthetic chemistry, fluorescent sensors, macromolecular recognition
Dr Paul McGonigal	Department of Chemistry Organic synthesis; aromatic ions; liquid crystals
Dr Mark Miller	Department of Chemistry Director of the Durham Centre for Soft Matter Simulation methodology, self-assembly, clusters, percolation, knots, energy landscapes
Dr Christopher Prior	Department of Mathematical Sciences Topological constraints, protein structure and bio elasticity
Professor Roy Quinlan	Department of Biosciences Cytoskeleton, alpha-helical based nanofilaments; nanocomposites; non-globular domains; protein-protein interactions
Dr John Sanderson	Department of Chemistry Lipid Membranes and the interactions with other molecules (drugs, proteins, peptides); binding measurements; chemical stability in vivo and in vitro
Dr Natasha Shirshova	Department of Engineering Functional polymeric materials (synthesis and characterisation); porous polymers; materials for energy storage application; fibre/matrix composites
Dr Margarita Staykova	Department of Physics & Department of Chemistry
Professor Jonathan Steed	Department of Chemistry Pharmaceutical crystallisation, polymorphism, gels, self-assembly, supramolecular chemistry
Dr Richard Thompson	Department of Chemistry Surfaces and interfaces, scattering and rheology
Dr Elsen Tjhung	Department of Physics Active matter, emulsions, liquid crystals, stochastic thermodynamics, renormalisation group and mathematical modelling of cell motility and biological filaments
Dr Adam Townsend	Department of Mathematical Sciences Active and passive suspensions, computational rheology, computational mathematics, Stokes flow simulations, biological and complex fluids
Professor Kislon Voitchovsky	Department of Physics Solid-liquid interfaces, atomic force microscopy, nanotribology, ionic effects, biomembranes
Dr Fabian Wadsworth	Department of Earth Sciences Magma as soft matter; silicate liquid droplets; viscous sintering
Professor Mark Wilson	Department of Chemistry Simulations of soft matter systems: liquid crystals, polymers, self-assembly, lipids and proteins
Professor Jun Jie Wu	Department of Engineering