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I am interested in the rheology of complex fluids, in particular suspensions of soft particles (e.g. blood) and emulsions. I am also working on microfluidic applications (lab on a chip).

Please take a look at my web page: http://www.timm-krueger.de/

Protein aggregation and self-assembly, proteins at interfaces, interfacial phenomena and stabilisation, biopharmaceutical formulation.

www.ph.ed.ac.uk/~cmacphee

Physics of Soft matter - colloids, polymers, bacteria, swimming microorganisms

Structure and dynamics

Microscopy imaging

Dynamic Light Scattering, X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy 

Dense colloidal suspensions, turbid samples, colloidal glasses, gels.

diffusion in complex fluid

mixture of swimming bacteria and colloids

Current research topics include: (i) Formation and behaviour of non-equilibrium systems such as glasses, gels or jammed states in molecular, colloidal or supramolecular systems (ii) the effect of chain conformation and shear on the dynamics of oligomers and polymers (iii) physical gelation in polymeric and colloidal systems (iv) structure and dynamics in thin polymer films and other geometrically confined systems (v) applications including the development of novel battery materials and the cryopreservation of proteins and cells. 

I use experimental techniques including light, x-ray and neutron scattering, dielectric spectroscopy, rheology, calorimetry and laser scanning confocal microscopy together with a wide range of characterisation techniques including optical microscopy, SEM, TEM, AFM and QCM.

Molecular polymer rheology

Protein dynamics and allostery

Self-assembly (inlcuding amyloid fibrils)

Theories of evolution

Medieval history of science

theology of science

ethics of public science policy

Business development in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh