Job Thijssen

Dr J H J Thijssen, MInstP, SFHEA
- Position
- Reader
- Category
- Academic staff
- Location
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James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)
Room 2421
- Email: j.h.j.thijssen [at] ed.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)131 650 5274
- Twitter: @jobthijssen
- Personal home page
- Edinburgh Research Explorer profile
Job is a member of the following School research institute and research area:
Research institute
Research area
Websites
https://www2.ph.ed.ac.uk/~jthijsse
Research interests
I am an experimental physicist by training, with research experience in soft matter and complex fluids. My research focuses on the physics and applications of soft materials, especially those in which interfaces are crucial and those that have potential for applications in coatings and energy materials. I am currently a Reader in the School of Physics & Astronomy at The University of Edinburgh, where I teach experimental physics and supervise undergraduate & PhD research projects. Finally, I am involved in collaborations on interfaces in energy materials (MISE), on complex-fluids knowledge exchange (ECFP) and on equality, diversity and inclusion in STEM (Evidence Base).
Experimental Physics 3 (lab leader)
MPhys Project (supervisor)
Personal Tutor
SH Project (supervisor)
Job currently offers the following PhD project opportunities:
Job has featured in the following recent School news stories:

Soft materials for energy applications
Using kitchen ingredients, in this video Job explains what soft materials are and how they can be used as promising scaffolds for novel electrodes in next-generation batteries.Recent publications
- Contactless Interfacial Rheology: Probing Shear at Liquid-Liquid Interfaces without an Interfacial Geometry via Fluorescence Microscopy DOI, Journal of rheology, 67, 1, p. 67-80
- , Rheologica acta, 61, 8-9, p. 571-581
- , Nature Communications, 13, 1, p. 1-11
- , Advanced Materials Interfaces, 9, 13, p. 1-6
- Participation, performance and outcomes in an undergraduate physics degree: Perspectives on gender and socioeconomic factors DOI, Physical review physics education research, 18, 1, p. 1-14