I am a PhD student, under the supervision of Erika, and Raffaela Cabriolu as my co-supervisor, at NTNU as part of PoreLab. I am conducting experimental research to understand the drying patterns formed by droplets of colloidal suspensions (think coffee-stain effect, but better!) under confinement. This is achieved by synthesising colloids ‘in house’, to be able to precisely tune their physical properties and interactions, and using optical techniques, such as confocal microscopy, to analyse the resulting patterns. Analysis of experimental results is done in collaboration with Andreas outside of the lab.

My scientific background is in physical chemistry, having submitted my master’s thesis on the ‘Structure and Behaviour of Inert Cation Assisted Water-In-Salt Electrolytes for Application in Lithium-ion Batteries’ under the super vision of Susan Perkin, in the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, at the University of Oxford