Helen Gleeson

Helen Gleeson
Born Helen F. Gleeson
Fields
Institutions University of Manchester
Alma mater University of Manchester (BSc, PhD)
Thesis Optical and electro-optical properties of chiral mesophases (1986)
Notable awards
Website
www.manchester.ac.uk/research/helen.gleeson

Helen F. Gleeson OBE is a British physicist. As of 2015 she holds the chair of Cavendish Professor at the University of Leeds, having left the University of Manchester at the start of 2015.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Education

Gleeson graduated from the University of Manchester in 1983 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Physics.[7] She went to study for a PhD which she was awarded in 1986 for investigations of the optical and electro-optical properties of chiral mesophases.[8]

Research

Gleeson's research investigates self-assembling and self-ordering materials, especially chiral liquid crystals.[9][10][11] and teaches at the University of Manchester.[12][13][14]

Awards and honours

Gleeson was awarded Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2009 Birthday Honours.

References

  1. ↑ Helen Gleeson's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database, a service provided by Elsevier. (subscription required)
  2. ↑ Prof. HELEN GLEESON - BBC BREAKFAST - 03 October 2012 - Physics for GIRLS on YouTube
  3. ↑ "Helen Gleeson | Women's Engineering Society". wes.org.uk. Retrieved 2014-06-12.
  4. ↑ "News". ogdentrust.com. Retrieved 2014-06-12.
  5. ↑ "Gordon Research Conferences - 2009 Program - Liquid Crystals". grc.org. Retrieved 2014-06-12.
  6. ↑ http://www.leeds.ac.uk/forstaff/news/article/4541/new_head_of_physics_for_university
  7. ↑ "Helen Gleeson | Women's Engineering Society". wes.org.uk. Retrieved 2014-06-12.
  8. ↑ Gleeson, Helen (1986). Optical and electro-optical properties of chiral mesophases (PhD thesis). University of Manchester.
  9. ↑ Blake, Peter (2008). "Graphene-Based Liquid Crystal Device". Nano Letters. 8 (6): 1704–1708. doi:10.1021/nl080649i. PMID 18444691.
  10. ↑ Görtz, Verena (2009). "Unusual properties of a bent-core liquid-crystalline fluid". Soft Matter. Royal Society of Chemistry. 5 (2): 463. doi:10.1039/B808283A.
  11. ↑ Grigorenko, A. N. (2005). "Nanofabricated media with negative permeability at visible frequencies". Nature. 438 (7066): 335–338. doi:10.1038/nature04242. PMID 16292306.
  12. ↑ "Prof Helen Gleeson research profile - personal details | The University of Manchester". manchester.ac.uk. Retrieved 2014-06-12.
  13. ↑ Dietrich Demus; John W. Goodby; George W. Gray; Hans W. Spiess; Volkmar Vill (22 September 2011). Handbook of Liquid Crystals, Low Molecular Weight Liquid Crystals II. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 10–. ISBN 978-3-527-62063-0.
  14. ↑ Hirst, L. (2002). "Interlayer structures of the chiral smectic liquid crystal phases revealed by resonant x-ray scattering". Physical Review E. 65 (4). doi:10.1103/PhysRevE.65.041705.


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