It is with great pleasure that we announce Prof. Tim White (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) as the recipient of the 2019 Soft Matter Lectureship.
Tim White completed his PhD at the University of Iowa. Thereafter he went on to become a Senior Research Engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory in the US. In July, Tim was appointed as the Gallogly Professor of Engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder where he has founded the Responsive and Programmable Materials Group.
His current research activities are broadly focused on harnessing stimuli response in liquid crystalline materials to realize shape transformation or optical reconfiguration.
Tim will give his lecture and receive his certificate at the International Soft Matter Conference in Edinburgh in June.
To learn more about Tim’s research read some of his Soft Matter papers below
Polymer stabilization of cholesteric liquid crystals in the oblique helicoidal state
Mariacristina Rumi, Timothy J. Bunning and Timothy J. White
Soft Matter, 2018,14, 8883-8894
Blue-shifting tuning of the selective reflection of polymer stabilized cholesteric liquid crystals
Kyung Min Lee, Vincent P. Tondiglia, Nicholas P. Godman, Claire M. Middleton and Timothy J. White
Soft Matter, 2017,13, 5842-5848
Voxel resolution in the directed self-assembly of liquid crystal polymer networks and elastomers
Benjamin A. Kowalski, Vincent P. Tondiglia, Tyler Guin and Timothy J. White
Soft Matter, 2017,13, 4335-4340
Photosensitivity of reflection notch tuning and broadening in polymer stabilized cholesteric liquid crystals
Kyung Min Lee, Vincent P. Tondiglia and Timothy J. White
Soft Matter, 2016,12, 1256-1261
Thank you to everyone who nominated a candidate for the Lectureship; we received many excellent nominations, and the Editorial Board had a difficult task in choosing between some outstanding candidates.
Please join us in congratulating Tim on his award!
