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Doctor Oliver Henrich

Senior Lecturer

Physics

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Prize And Awards

Recipient
2017
Recipient
2016
Recipient
2016

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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)

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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

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Doctor Oliver Henrich
Senior Lecturer
Physics

Email: oliver.henrich@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4012