Tom McLeish

Tom McLeish
Born Thomas Charles Buckland McLeish
(1962-05-01) 1 May 1962[1]
Fields
Institutions
Alma mater
Thesis Molecular models of polymeric flows (1987)
Doctoral students
  • Kevin O'Connor
  • Nigel Clarke
  • Graeme Bishko[2]
  • David Bick
  • Janet Johnson
  • Richard Blackwell[2]
  • Richard Graham[2]
  • Nathanael Inkson[2]
  • William Trewby[3]
Notable awards
Website
tcbmcleish.wordpress.com

Thomas Charles Buckland McLeish (born 1962) FRS[4] is a theoretical physicist whose work is renowned for increasing our understanding of the properties of soft matter. This is matter that can be easily changed by stress — including liquids, foams and biological materials. He is Professor in the Durham University Department of Physics and Director of the Durham Centre for Soft Matter, a multidisciplinary team that works across physics, chemistry, mathematics and engineering.[4][5]

Education

McLeish was educated at Sevenoaks School in Kent and Emmanuel College, Cambridge[1] where he was awarded a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1984 and a PhD in 1987 for research on fluid dynamics.[6]

Research

Although McLeish's work is mostly theoretical, he also works closely with those performing experiments and in industry.[7][8] He has made significant advances in modelling the structure and properties of complex entangled molecules,[9] blends of substances that don't usually mix (multiphasic liquids like oil and water) see reptation and crazing. This allows us to more easily predict complex fluid behaviour and processing in an industrial setting.[4] Since 2000 he has increasingly worked on biological physics: applying soft matter physics to self-assembly of protein fibrils, protein fluctuation dynamics and its role in allosteric signaling, and statistical mechanics approaches to evolution. As of 2015 he has published around 200 papers in peer reviewed scientific journals.[10][11]

Awards and honours

McLeish was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2011[4] and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP).[3][11]

Personal life

McLeish's other interests include historical studies of medieval science, and he is a member of the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies at Durham.[4] Since 1993 he has been a lay preacher in the Anglican Church, delivering sermons at St Michael le Belfrey, York.[12] In 2014 he published a book on the relationship between religion and science called Faith and Wisdom in Science.[13]

References

  1. 1 2 3 McLEISH, Prof. Thomas Charles Buckland. Who's Who 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription required)
  2. 1 2 3 4 Tom McLeish at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. 1 2 "Professor Tom McLeish, FInstP, FRS". Durham University. Archived from the original on 2015-03-24.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 "Professor Thomas McLeish FRS". London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 2015-09-06. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived September 25, 2015)
  5. ↑ Tom McLeish on Twitter
  6. ↑ McLeish, Thomas Charles Buckland (1987). Molecular models of polymeric flows (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 556660733.
  7. ↑ Aggeli, A.; Bell, M.; Boden, N.; Keen, J. N.; Knowles, P. F.; McLeish, T. C. B.; Pitkeathly, M.; Radford, S. E. (1997). "Responsive gels formed by the spontaneous self-assembly of peptides into polymeric β-sheet tapes". Nature 386 (6622): 259. doi:10.1038/386259a0. PMID 9069283.
  8. ↑ Townsend, Philip D.; Rodgers, Thomas L.; Glover, Laura C.; Korhonen, Heidi J.; Richards, Shane A.; Colwell, Lucy J.; Pohl, Ehmke; Wilson, Mark R.; Hodgson, David R. W.; McLeish, Tom C. B.; Cann, Martin J. (2015). "The Role of Protein-Ligand Contacts in Allosteric Regulation of the Escherichia coli Catabolite Activator Protein". Journal of Biological Chemistry 290 (36): 22225–22235. doi:10.1074/jbc.M115.669267. ISSN 0021-9258. PMC 4571973. PMID 26187469.
  9. ↑ McLeish, T. C. B. (2002). "Tube theory of entangled polymer dynamics". Advances in Physics 51 (6): 1379. doi:10.1080/00018730210153216.
  10. ↑ Tom McLeish's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier.
  11. 1 2 Tom McLeish's Entry at ORCID
  12. ↑ "Tom McLeish". greenbelt.org.uk. Archived from the original on 2015-03-29.
  13. ↑ McLeish, Tom (2014). Faith and Wisdom in Science. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198702612.


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