Curriculum Vitae

Education & Affiliations

• 2024-Present: Lecturer in Theoretical Soft Matter and Biological Physics, University of Leeds (UK)
• 2022-2024: Researcher co-Investigator, University of York (UK)
• 2017-2022: Post-Doctoral Research Associate, University of Durham (UK) and University of York (UK)
• 2016-2017: Device Physicist (Organic Electronics), Simbeyond B.V. (NL)
• 2016: Ph.D in Applied Physics, Eindhoven University of Technology (NL)
• 2012: MSc in Chemical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology (NL)

Research Interests

• Liquid-liquid phase separation
  • Biological coacervates
  • Polymer composites
• Polymer physics
  • Polymer precipitation in organic solar cells
  • Spinning of silk-like polymers
• Molecular Self-assembly
  • Supramolecular polymerisation of small monomers
  • Self-organisation of virus capsids

Research Skills

• Statistical Mechanics
  • Analytical methods (e.g., Fokker-Planck & master equation)
  • Numerical methods (discretisation)
  • Simulation development
• Polymer physics
  • Scaling concepts
  • Tube model
  • Sticky reptation
• Liquid-liquid phase separation
  • Cahn-Hilliard, Collective diffusion
  • Thin films (solvent evaporation & stratification)
• Software Engineering
  • Linux, git, bash, matlab, python, C

Teaching

• Guest lecture on collective diffusion & phase separation
• Supervision of BSc-MSc level students in research projects

Organisation

• Committee member Early Career Forum (Physics department York)
• Member of steering committee Physics of Life

Publications

A selected number of publications is given here. For the most comprehensive list of publications I refer to my google scholar account. Unpublished manuscripts (preprints) and posters are available at my ResearchGate account.