Andrew Parnell University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Dr Andrew Parnell undertook a Physics PhD with the title “A Study of Weak Polyelectrolyte Brushes” supervised by Professor Richard Jones FRS. He was then a postdoctoral researcher (2006-2007) in the Sheffield Department of Chemistry working with Professor Patrick Fairclough. During this period he started to develop his long term interest in structural colour. He returned to the Sheffield Physics department in 2007 to work on the EPSRC funded Soft nanotechnology platform grant held by Professor Jones FRS. In 2011 he won the (IChemE) Innovative product of the year, this award was for the development of materials that exhibit photonic properties that can be tuned to a specific wavelength. In 2015 he was promoted to the lecturer grade and is currently a permanent research fellow in the Physics department. Dr Parnell was chosen as the Institute of Physics Polymer Physics Group /DPOLY Polymer exchange lecturer for 2017 and gave an invited talk at the March American Physical Society (APS) meeting in New Orleans. The talk was titled “Self-assembled structural colour in nature” His research group currently has ongoing research interests in thin film polymer physics, cross-linked polymer networks, self-assembled solar cells, antimicrobial surfaces and structural colour - synthetic and its formation in nature. He also has a long running interest in the use of neutron and X-ray scattering (SAXS, SANS, SESANS and neutron reflectivity) to study soft matter and biological systems, with a particular focus on in-situ experiments.
Sarah (Sally) L Price University College London, United Kingdom
Sally, officially Sarah, Price trained as a theoretical chemist at the University of Cambridge, specialising in deriving models of the forces between molecules from their wavefunctions. She worked at the Universities of Chicago and Cambridge, before becoming a lecturer at UCL (University College London), where she is now a Professor specialising in Computational Chemistry. In developing the theory and computer codes to model the organic solid state, she has collaborated widely with experimental solid state chemists, pharmaceutical scientists, theoretical physicists and computational scientists, including leading the Basic Technology Project “Control and Prediction of the Organic Solid State”. She was awarded he RSC Interdisciplinary Prize in 2015 and elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Society in 2017 in recognition of the value of this collaborative work that has, and continues to, reveal the complexities of organic crystallisation. Sally has written over 200 scientific publications, mainly in Chemistry journals but also in leading Pharmaceutical Science, Crystallography Molecular Biology and Physics journals. Those arising from the CPOSS work which form the basis of this lecture are on the website www.cposs.org.uk . Many of these are multi-disciplinary arising from stimulating work with a large number of PhD students, PDRAs, and academic and industrial scientists from many disciplines.
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