Thomas Swift

Biography

Thomas Swift received a degree as a master of Chemistry (MChem Industry) from the University of York in July 2010, having spent his fourth year at an industrial placement at AkzoNobel’s Decorative Paints division researching novel film functionality. He began a PhD at the University of Sheffield where he specialised in stimuli responsive polymer synthesis and analysis, in a range of fields and applications including; fluorescence tagging, material characterisation, solution behavior of smart polymers and an understanding of water treatment processes. Practical experience with free radical, RAFT and ATRP methods of synthesising both linear polymers, branched polymers and hydrogels, extensive use of GPC techniques and time resolved fluorescence spectrometers. His PhD, carried out at the University of Sheffield, was entitled ‘Smart Polymers for the Detection of Polymeric Contamination in Fresh Water’, and he then began working on a new project with LV Prasad, the Wellcome Trust and both the University of Sheffield and Bradford. He took up his post as Lecturer at the University of Bradford September 2016

Research Interest

Polymers, smart materials, fluorescence, stimuli responsive, macromolecules, interpolymer complexation, diffusion NMR