Scottish Soft Matter Workshop

Image courtesy of Marcel Rey and the Edinburgh Cryo FIB-SEM Facility.

Soft condensed matter encompasses a wide variety of industrial, biological and fundamental research questions regarding materials that are able to deform under mechanical stress. The complexity of these material systems arises from their duality as partially solid-like and partially fluid-like, as well as the significant role played by thermal fluctuations. These complexities require the development of analytical and computational modelling techniques, often in close collaboration with experimentalists working in industrial formulation science or biophysics.

The UK, and the North in particular, has an international reputation as being home to leaders in this endeavour. There are also multiple new hires across the field within universities throughout Scotland. This one-day workshop seeks to bring together Scottish soft matter research to establish a national sense of identity and direction. It is our intention to nucleate discussions between researchers from different locales to strengthen inter-institution collaborations. This workshop seeks to inform attendees about the breadth of ongoing research activities and Scottish interests, with invited speakers across research-intensive universities in Scotland. It will identify themes and synergies, which could be leveraged for future funding opportunities.

We warmly invite all soft matter researchers in Scotland to attend this one-day workshop.

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