Matt Turner

Biography

Following some great advice from John Chalker I decided to do a PhD in theoretical soft condensed matter physics. I was extremely lucky to have Mike Cates as my PhD supervisor in the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge University where I worked on the dynamics of polymers that can exchange mass. I somehow found time to be president of Trinity College BA Society (for grad students - it isn't called an MCR at Trinity). After my PhD I was a postdoc with Jean-Francois Joanny at the Institut Charles Sadron in Strasbourg. In 1991 I was elected a Fellow of Trinity ('under title A'), an immense privilege. After winning a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in Cambridge I moved to the University of California at Santa Barbara; it was great to spend time in the Institute for Theoretical Phyics (now KITP). I was then appointed to the faculty at Warwick before leaving, almost immediately, to become the W M Keck fellow in the Centre for Studies in Physics and Biology, Rockefeller University from 1998-2000. I first learned something about Biology at Rockefeller; it is an amazing science. In recent years I have held a Joliot-Curie visiting fellowship at ESPCI, Paris. In 2010 I became an EPSRC Leadership Fellow. Recently, I've been having a lot of fun working on some completely new problems.

Research Interest

Engineering