IFSCC Congress 2024
Welcome to the ECFP IFSCC Congress landing page. Below you will find information on where we are located at the event, our IFSCC Congress team and more information about ECFP and how we can work with you.
Come and see our posters
Collaborating with the University of Edinburgh in Formulation Science and Cosmetics is possible via the Edinburgh Complex Fluids Partnership. Through consultancy and collaborative projects, you can access bespoke and state-of-the-art facilities as well as world-renowned experts in the field to generate maximum knowledge output and deliver innovation. Previous projects have led to favourable economic and reputational impact for our partners; for example, our collaboration with Aqualutions led to launch of a new product which won a prestigious award.
At IFSCC Congress 2024, we will present our technologies available for commercial license and/or co-development as well as recent research activities from our academics relevant to the cosmetics and personal care industries. Come and visit us at one or more of our posters:
- Liquid crystalline-based system and surface-active proteins as novel ingredients for high performance formulations – ID: SBN 93
- Rheological design of topical and hair formulations for sensory and performance properties – ID: FAM 91
- Drying behaviour of polymer films – ID: FAM 58
- High resolution structural characterization of formulations using Cryo Focused Ion Beam Scanning Electron Microscopy (Cryo FIB-SEM) and Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy (EDX) – ID: FAM 90
- The effect of soap versus alcohol cleansing on skin surface properties – ID: SHO 57
Meet the ECFP team at IFSCC Congress 2024
David Moore
Chair of Formulation Science
Professor David Moore has been involved in biophysical studies of skin, biological membranes, and topical formulation development for 25 years. From 2013 to 2020 David lead skin health R&D activities at GlaxoSmithKline in North Carolina, New Jersey, and London. Prior to this, David led industrial R&D groups focused on skin membrane biophysics, FTIR spectroscopy and spectroscopic imaging, measurement science, and topical formulation development at Unilever, International Specialty Products (now Ashland), and TRI-Princeton.
David is Chair of Formulation Science in the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Edinburgh where he works closely with the Edinburgh Complex Fluids Partnership.
Tiffany Wood
Senior Knowledge Transfer Fellow
Dr Tiffany Wood was the co-founder Director of ECFP until 2020. Through this, she is experienced in working with companies through consultancy and collaborative research projects.
Tiffany explores the use of defect lines (‘disclinations’) within nematic liquid crystals to modify the flow properties of colloidal composites and to assemble functional structures. She has filed two patents (2019, 2021), the first of which describes DAINTech – a new route to creating stable, shear-thinning suspensions that avoids the use of polymers in liquid formulations.
Denise Li
Business Development Executive, Edinburgh Innovations
Dr Denise Li is the Business Development Executive supporting ECFP. She has experience working in industry as well as academia and is passionate in fostering collaborative partnerships.
She completed her PhD under the Soft Matter and Functional Interfaces Centre for Doctoral Training (SOFI CDT) in 2018, studying the Structure and Stability of Phospholipids in Dermatological Formulations. Denise then went on to join the Physical Sciences team at Mondelēz International. She then joined ECFP as Impact Acceleration Associate, establishing the group’s Skin Research capabilities.
You can find out more about the ECFP team and academics on our People page.
Download our digital posters
You can download our ECFP flyer below as well as the 5 posters we are presenting.
Related information and links
Case Studies
Find out more about the work we do through our case studies. ECFP has worked with more than 50 companies since our inception in 2012, across a wide range of industrial sectors. Our case studies give some insight into how we work with companies, the role we played, and the outcome for our partners.
DAINTech
University of Edinburgh researchers have developed DAINTech, a new gel-phase formulation chassis technology. The DAINTech technology provides a route to stable formulations with appealing sensory aspects using established and cost-effective industrial materials, and without the use of polymer or microplastic elements. It also offers an alternative potential solution to formulate otherwise challenging ingredients. The platform technology is expected to be broadly applicable to a wide range of industry applications and gives commercial partners the opportunity to implement innovative, environmentally sustainable and commercially valuable formulation products as part of their product development process.
Where soft matter physics meets Renaissance beauty regimes
University of Edinburgh researchers have been collaboratively studying the history and science of Renaissance cosmetics. Both in Renaissance times and in the present day, the flow properties of such skin and hair care products is key to their formulation. As a result of their collaboration, they have developed The Beauty Sensorium – a multi-sensory commission where visitors can enter the world of Renaissance cosmetics. The exhibition shows how Renaissance cosmetic makers wrestled with many of the same technical challenges as modern soft matter scientists and industrial formulators.
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