Department of Chemistry seminar: 26 May 2011

Posted on May 26, 2011

When:       Thursday, 26 May 2011

Time:         11:30 - 12:30

Venue:      The Avogadro – Chemistry

Building    Room 3.22

Prof. Gleeson is primarily an experimentalist and her research is aimed at understanding self-assembling and self-ordering materials, especially chiral liquid crystals. In pursuing this aim, she has developed several techniques that have allowed novel aspects of liquid crystal physics to be investigated. Much of her recent work has involved the use of state-of-the-art optical and X-ray techniques to gain detailed insight into molecular ordering and structural deformations in liquid crystals and devices. She has published more than 120 papers in refereed journals, written six chapters in books and holds six patents.

Prof. Gleeson was awarded the inaugural Cyril Hilsum Medal by the British Liquid Crystal Society for her contributions to liquid crystals in 2006. She has supervised 19 PhD and seven MSc graduates. Three of these won prestigious awards (two were winners of the British Liquid Crystal Society Young Scientists of the Year award, 1998 and 2004), and one won the International Liquid Crystal Society (Glen Brown Award for best thesis). She was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List in 2009 for Services to Science.

Contact person: Prof. S Lotz

Contact number: (012) 420 2800

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