Ian Ford's home page
| I am a theorist in the Condensed Matter
and Materials Physics group
(CMMP) in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UCL, and a
Principal
Investigator in the London Centre for Nanotechnology (LCN). I work on
topics in soft condensed matter, particularly in the area of aerosol physics (the
study of small particles suspended in a gas). I have also studied phase
transitions in colloids, which
are particles suspended in a liquid phase
host, and looked at the conformational and thermodynamic behaviour of
complex
biological molecules and structures. I have a fundamental interest in
the nature of entropy production in nonequilibrium processes,
including thermal conduction, particle diffusion and dissipative
systems in
general. I maintain a number of official webpages describing my roles at UCL:
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Brief details are to be found here.
Current and former members of my research group:
Hanna Vehkamaki (former
Postdoctoral Fellow: Monte Carlo simulations of clusters, development of
nucleation theorems)
Michael Knott (former PhD student: phases of charged colloids)
Jayesh Bhatt (former
PhD student: formation and surface chemistry of interstellar dust)
Shahid Hussain (former
PhD student: electromagnetic properties of colloids)
Sarah Harris (former
Postdoctoral Fellow: molecular dynamics simulations of liquid clusters; protein
aggregation)
Sukina Natarajan (former PhD student: freezing processes in the atmosphere)
Sascha Khakshouri (former
PhD student: density functional methods in statistical mechanics)
Hoi Yu Tang (former PhD student:
stability of molecular clusters)
Christiane Losert-Valiente-Kroon (former PhD student: stochastic description of nucleation processes and chemical reactions)
Richard Spinney (former PhD student: irreversible processes in stochastic dynamics and fluctuation relations)
Hemant Tailor (PhD student: molecular thermodynamics of DNA and collagen)
Jake Stinson (PhD student: dynamics and thermodynamics of sulphuric acid/water molecular clusters)
Dino Osmanovic (PhD student: statistical physics of the nuclear pore complex)
Gabriel Lau (PhD student (PhD student based at Imperial College: thermodynamics of droplets)
Joel Posthuma de Boer (PhD student based at Imperial College: nucleation and growth of graphene sheets)
Peter Bebbington (PhD student: dynamics of price formation in markets)
Teaching
I have taught Solid State
Physics; liquid state theory; fluid mechanics; stochastic dynamics; and statistical thermodynamics.
Publications