Olmsted's Research Group


I am working with a number of talented people in different areas of soft matter and biophysics.


Stan Skorski PhD Student (2008-) - meniscus instabilities in shear banding, funded by EPSRC.
Stephen Agimelen PhD Student (2009-) - shear banding in entangled polymers, as part of the EU network DYNACOP.
Chinmay Das Post-doc (2006-) - membrane theory and simulation. Part of a project funded by Yorkshire Forward and the ERDF, in collaboration with Unilever and the Universities of Bradford and Hull, on the physics behind skin and skin membranes.
Ed Causton PhD student (2006-) - theory of mechanical unfolding, in collaboration with Dr David Brockwell in the Faculty of Biological Sciences.
Derek Revill PhD student (2009-) - In collaboration with Professor Peter Knight in the Faculty of Biological Sciences. Wellcome Trust funded project on mechanics and motions in motor proteins.

Publications
Scientific Biography

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