Doctor Oliver Henrich
Senior Lecturer
Physics
Prize And Awards
- Recipient
- 2017
- Recipient
- 2016
- Recipient
- 2016
Publications
- Bhowmik Aditya, Stratford Kevin, , Thampi Sumesh P
- Soft Matter (2026)
- 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)
- Bianco Simona, Hu Tianhu, , Magennis Steven W
- Biophysical Reports Vol 2 (2022)
- Bores Cecilia, , Chen Chuanying, Pettitt B Montgomery
- Biophysical Journal Vol 121, pp. 209a-209a (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 (10-9Â 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
Contact
Doctor
Oliver
Henrich
Senior Lecturer
Physics
Email: oliver.henrich@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4012