People
Find out about the ECFP core team, board and wider academic support
The ECFP team
ECFP employs a core team of experienced postdoctoral researchers who liaise with customers, scope out projects and carry out work in the laboratory. The core team is supported by a wider team of academics consisting of all Principal Investigators and senior research staff associated with the Soft Matter and Biological Physics Group. The ECFP board includes representatives from different stakeholder groups that advise on future developments in ECFP.
Although not listed here, ECFP also engages with the group of postdocs within the research group who provide help with outreach events. ECFP supports the development of this group of early-career staff through delivering insights into industry through placements and other training opportunities.
ECFP Core Team
Daniel Hodgson
Executive Director
Daniel completed his PhD in Physics in 2016, studying the link between the flow of dense suspensions and the formation of solid particle agglomerates. His current research interests lie in investigating how the bulk rheological behaviour of dense suspensions is linked to the microscopic interactions of their components.
Andreia Silva
Impact Acceleration Associate
Andreia is a bioengineer with a PhD in complex fluids. She has expertise in using physical, chemical and mechanical techniques to understand the macroscopic and microscopic behaviour of complex fluids and the contribution of isolated components with the aim of developing new formulations.
Sashi Ramamirtham
Impact Acceleration Associate
Sashi joined ECFP as an Impact Acceleration Associate in Biological Physics on Jan’2023.He is a chemical engineer turned bio-physicist with 8+ years of research experience at the interface of industry and academia.
Denise Li
Business Development Executive
Denise completed her PhD under the Soft Matter and Functional Interfaces Centre for Doctoral Training in 2018, studying the Structure and Stability of Phospholipids in Dermatological Formulations. Her research interest lies in understanding the structure and phase behaviour of soft matter materials in order to determine product functionality, stability and shelf life.
Rory O'Neill
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Rory has a background in mechanical engineering and physics, with much of his research focusing on the flow of complex fluids. He is currently developing apparatus to simulate the flows complex fluids are subject to in the real world. Determining the mechanisms behind these flows will help identify methods to avoid instabilities found in industrial processes.
James Richards
Postdoctoral Research Associate
James is a soft matter physicist with a PhD from the University of Edinburgh on the rheology of concentrated suspensions. His research interests lie in developing new experimental techniques and phenomenological models to explore the intricate interplay between fluid flow, surface deformation and non-Newtonian rheology.
Naomi Brown
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Naomi has a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Sheffield studying the efficacy of hard surface cleaning formulations in collaboration with SC Johnson. Her work focused on the optimisation of surfactant mixtures and analysis of how these solutions remove kitchen soils from surfaces.
Susanna Richmond
Impact Officer
Susanna is the Impact Research Officer for the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh. She works with ECFP staff to monitor and communicate the work carried out with industrial partners.
ECFP Board
Job Thijssen
Academic Liaison
Lucinda Bruce-Gardyne
Industry Advisor
Yee-Li Lee
Business Development Executive at Edinburgh Innovations
Academic Team
Wilson Poon
Professor and Chair of Natural Philosophy
Cait MacPhee
Professor of Biological Physics
Paul Clegg
Professor of Applied Physics
Alexander Morozov
Professor of Fluid Mechanics
Davide Marenduzzo
Professor of Computational Biophysics
David Moore
Honorary Professor in Skin Biophysics
Job Thijssen
Reader
Tyler Shendruk
Reader in Theoretical/Computational Condensed Matter Physics
Davide Michieletto
Reader
Simon Titmuss
Lecturer
Chris Ness
Royal Academy of Engineering Research Fellow
Aidan Brown
Chancellor’s Fellow
Gavin Melaugh
Chancellor’s Fellow
John Royer
Chancellor’s Fellow of Food and Rheology
Tiffany Wood
Senior Knowledge Transfer Fellow
Jochen Arlt
Research Fellow
Ryan Morris
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Patricia Gonzalez Iglesias
Biophysics Laboratory Manager
ECFP Alumni
Susana Direito
Impact Acceleration Associate 2017 – 2022
Susana worked with ECFP and the National Biofilms Innovation Centre (NBIC) on a range of industrial projects focussed on microbiology and biophysics.
Susana now works at Edinburgh Innovations as a Business Development Executive with the School of Biological Sciences.