91AV

Bernie Binks obtained his B.Sc. in 91AV (1983) and a Ph.D. in surface chemistry and microemulsions (1986) at the University of Hull, UK. He was awarded a Royal Society European Fellowship to study in Paris, where he worked on light scattering and ellipsometry from liquid interfaces coated with surfactant (1987). After further postdoctoral years studying Langmuir monolayers on water and multilayers on solid substrates, he was appointed Lecturer in 91AV at the University of Hull in 1991. He was promoted to Professor of Physical 91AV in 2003 and led the Surfactant & Colloid Group in Hull since 2002.

His main research interests are in the properties and behaviour of colloidal particles at fluid interfaces. This includes particles at planar interfaces, particle-stabilised emulsions (oil-water, oil-oil) and foams (aqueous and non-aqueous) and novel materials derived from them, e.g. dry water/oil, powdered emulsions, liquid marbles. Research funding is derived primarily from industry for both fundamental and applied investigations.

He has published over 270 peer reviewed articles and edited 3 research monographs on Emulsions, Surfactant Characterisation and Particles at Liquid Interfaces. He was awarded the RSC Colloid & Interface Science Group medal in 2004, the European Colloid and Interface Society-Rhodia Prize in 2011, the RSC Surfaces and Interfaces Award in 2014 and the ACS Langmuir Lecturer Award in 2016.

He is a Consultant to several major companies involved with food, agrochemicals, detergents, oilfield chemicals and pharmaceutical formulations and is a Senior Editor of Langmuir

Prof. Armes graduated from Bristol University (BSc 1983, PhD 1987). He worked as a post-doctoral Fellow at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico for two years and then moved to Sussex University in 1989. He was promoted to Professor in 2000 and moved to his current institution, Sheffield University, in 2004. At Sheffield, he is the Director of the Polymer Centre and also leads a £7.1 M Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT) in the field of Polymers, Soft Matter and Colloids. He has published more than 570 papers (H index 99) in this area, with a current focus on polymerisation-induced self-assembly. His research has been recognised with the award of four RSC medals over the past ten years and more recently the 2016 DSM Materials Science award. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2014.
 

Albert Poortinga holds a MSc in Applied Physics and a PhD in Biomedical Engineering. In 2015 he started Bether Encapsulates, a company specialized in encapsulation with a focus on a proprietary encapsulation technology based on Pickering stabilization. Before starting Bether Encapsulates, Albert worked within R&D in the food industry performing research on emulsions, foams and encapsulation. Albert is the (co-)author of over 20 scientific articles and (co-)inventor of 25 patents, mainly in the field of encapsulation. Next to his work for Bether Encapsulates, Albert holds a position as an associate professor in Applied soft matter within the Polymer Technology group on the Technical University of Eindhoven.   
 

After receiving his PhD in organic chemistry from the University Wurzburg in 2002, Konrad Roschmann joined BASF SE, Ludwigshafen in the dispersion & colloidal materials research department. At BASF, he worked on several positions within research and development dealing with water-based binder resins for coatings and adhesive applications.