Steven P. Armes

Biography

Prof. Steve Armes obtained his BSc in Chemistry from the University of Bristol in 1983, which was followed by a PhD from the same institution in 1987. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico (1987-89), he became a lecturer at Sussex University in 1989. After being promoted to Senior Lecturer, Reader and Professor in Polymer Chemistry, he moved to Sheffield in 2004 to become Professor in Polymer and Colloid Chemistry. He is currently Director of the Sheffield Polymer Centre and Farapack Polymers, a University spin-out company. He was elected to be a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2014.

Research Interest

Water-soluble polymers, block copolymers, living radical polymerisation (e.g. RAFT and ATRP), polymerisation-induced self-assembly, dispersion polymerisation, micellar self-assembly, block copolymer vesicles, biocompatible polymers, colloidal nanocomposite particles, conducting polymers, stimulus-responsive microgels, polymer-based `Pickering´ emulsifiers.