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Publications

Harris Sarah Anne, Lattanzi Gianluca, Rosa Angelo, Everaers Ralf, Papoian Garegin, Vidal Adria, Brown Chelsea, Liverpool Tanniemola, Pasos-Trejo Aldo, Sadeghi Mohsen, Khalid Syma, Ramanathan Arvind, , Dougan Lorna, Freyberg Zachary, Pezeshkian Weria, Sept David, Geiger Beatrice, Beccaria Riccardo, Beales Paul, Covino Roberto, Cocking Ryan, Castelli Matteo, Kundu Sumanta, Aureli Simone, Breoni Davide, Mazza Fabio, Paternoster Costanza, Morand Jules, Micheloni Manuel, Cordoni Francesco, Beaules Lea, van der Hoek Pieter, Sillano Pietro, Coronas Luis Enrique, Coshic Kush, Petrolli Lorenzo, Trovato Antonio, Karttunen Mikko, Bartocci Alessio, Inverardi Giovanni Novi, Carnovale Francesco

Biophysical Journal Vol 125, pp. 4528-4540 (2026)

Bhowmik Aditya, Stratford Kevin, , Thampi Sumesh P

Soft Matter Vol 22, pp. 2856–2869 (2026)

Welch Robert, Laughton Charles, , Burnley Tom, Cole Daniel, Real Alan, Harris Sarah, Gebbie-Rayet James

(2025)

Thampi Sumesh P, Stratford Kevin,

Physical Review E Vol 109 (2024)

Lesniewska Magdalena, Mottram Nigel,

20 (2024)

Lesniewska Magdalena, Mottram Nigel,

Soft Matter Vol 18, pp. 6942-6953 (2022)

Research Interests

Soft condensed matter is an interdisciplinary field at the interface of physics, chemistry and biology. It covers a variety of physical, mostly liquid or gel-like states and systems, which are easily deformable by thermal stresses and fluctuations. Complex fluids such as liquid crystals, colloidal suspensions, glasses, amphiphilic mixtures, polymeric liquids, foams, gels, granular matter and a number of biologically relevant substances fall into this category.

Soft matter is ubiquitous and shares the common feature that the generic physical behaviour occurs at energy scales comparable to thermal energies at room temperature. It also shows a distinct propensity to self-assemble into more complex, mesoscopic structures which determine its mechanical, optical and rheological properties.

A particular focus of my research is on liquid crystals and nano-composite materials. I have also an interest in coarse-grained simulation of DNA and RNA. We try to understand the structural and dynamical behaviour of these systems. This requires modelling of mesoscopic time and length scales between those of the microscopic world of atoms and the macroscopic world we live in. Mesoscopic length scales range roughly from several nanometres (10^-9 m) to micrometres (10^-6Ìý³¾).

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Professional Activities

Speaker

2023

Speaker

5/2021

Speaker

9/2020

Speaker

8/2020

Speaker

12/2/2020

Advisor

2020

Projects

Henrich, Oliver (Principal Investigator) Palmer, David (Co-investigator) Falloon, Kierran (Research Co-investigator)

01-Jan-2023 - 01-Jan-2027

Henrich, Oliver (Principal Investigator)

01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2024

Henrich, Oliver (Principal Investigator)

01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2026

Henrich, Oliver (Principal Investigator)

Coarse-grained modelling of DNA- and RNA-protein interactions

06-Jan-2022 - 12-Jan-2022

Henrich, Oliver (Principal Investigator)

Carnegie Vacation Scholarship for Mr Lewis Russell

18-Jan-2021 - 01-Jan-2021

Henrich, Oliver (Co-investigator) Mulheran, Paul (Principal Investigator) Martin, Richard (Co-investigator)

Extension of ARCHIE-WeSt £60,000

01-Jan-2020