Peter Olmsted

Peter D. Olmsted

Professor of Physics --- Theoretical Soft Condensed Matter Physics
A.B. (Physics) Cornell University, 1984.
Ph.D. (Physics) University of Illinois @ Urbana-Champaign , 1991.

Fellow of the Institute of Physics
Fellow of the American Physical Society

My research is primarily in complex fluids, including biological "fluids" (membranes, polymers, etc), from the point of view of a condensed matter physicist interested in statistical mechanics. In addition I teach a few courses.

New Job Opening: Theory post-doc in shear banding/microfluidics! Deadline 2 May 2011. See this page for more information.
A recent summary of Softcomp activities Softcomp is a recently finished EU-funded network devoted to much of the interesting science of Soft Matter Composite Materials
UK Institute of Physics Complex Fluids Group
Soft Matter Mailing List If you have trouble accessing this feel free to email me.

Research

Teaching

Office:	Room 9.309, Physics Building (Research Deck, Polymers and Complex Fluids Group)
Mail:	Department of Physics & Astronomy
	University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK
Phone:	+44-(0)113-343 3830 (office) 3846 (fax)
E-mail:	p.d.olmsted.(at).leeds.ac.uk