We would like to congratulate Professor Michael J. Solomon, winner of the 2011 Soft Matter Lectureship, an annual award to honour a younger scientist who has made a significant contribution to the soft matter field.
Michael J. Solomon is Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan Ann Arbor. Solomon’s research addresses questions about the structure and function of soft matter. His group has developed methods in confocal microscopy to understand how colloids, anisotropic particles and bacteria biofilms assemble into structures such as gels and crystals, and how these structures respond to forces due to shear flow, centrifugation and electric fields.
As the award winner, Professor Solomon will be presenting lectures at three up-coming conferences to be confirmed shortly.
Showcasing work from the University of Basel, Switzerland, in collaboration with the University of Antwerp, Belgium- 
