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
Postdoctoral Research Associate
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.

Susana Direito
Impact Acceleration Associate
Susana completed her PhD in the Geomicrobiology / Quantitative Microbial Ecology group at VU University Amsterdam. With expertise in microbiology and molecular biology techniques, her research interests include biofilm formation, detection, and eradication, and advancing antimicrobial technologies.

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