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Dr Richard Mandle

  • Position: UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and University Academic Fellow
  • Areas of expertise: Soft Matter; Liquid Crystals; Ferroelectrics; Organic Synthesis; Polymers; X-ray Scattering; Quantum Calculations; Molecular Dynamics
  • Email: R.Mandle@leeds.ac.uk
  • Location: 1.12b Sir William Henry Bragg Building
  • Website: Googlescholar | Researchgate | ORCID

Profile

I was awarded BSc and MSc degrees in Chemistry at the University of Hull, before being awarded his PhD in Chemistry by the University of York in 2013 (thesis title: “The Nitro Group in Liquid Crystals”). Following my PhD I undertook postdoctoral positions at the University of York, working on advanced materials for high performance display devices. In 2020 I moved to the School of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Leeds for a postdoctoral position working on auxetic liquid crystalline elastomers, which lead to the formation of a spin-out company – LCAuxetec. 

In 2022 I was awarded a prestigious UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship for a project titled “A New Order of Liquids”. This £1.5M project combines chemistry and physics, both experiment and theory, to sythesise and characterise fluid ferroelectric materials. 

<h4>Research projects</h4> <p>Any research projects I'm currently working on will be listed below. Our list of all <a href="https://eps.leeds.ac.uk/dir/research-projects">research projects</a> allows you to view and search the full list of projects in the faculty.</p>

Qualifications

  • PhD in Chemistry (York, UK)
  • MSc in Chemistry (Hull, UK)
  • BSc in Chemistry (Hull, UK)

Current postgraduate researchers

<h4>Postgraduate research opportunities</h4> <p>We welcome enquiries from motivated and qualified applicants from all around the world who are interested in PhD study. Our <a href="https://phd.leeds.ac.uk">research opportunities</a> allow you to search for projects and scholarships.</p>
Projects
    <li><a href="//phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/1607-cycloparaphenylene-liquid-crystals">Cycloparaphenylene Liquid Crystals</a></li> <li><a href="//phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/1329-developing-a-tuneable-ferroelectric-nematic-materials-platform">Developing a tuneable ferroelectric nematic materials platform</a></li> <li><a href="//phd.leeds.ac.uk/project/1506-ultra-responsive-polar-liquid-crystal-devices">Ultra responsive polar liquid crystal devices</a></li>