Dr. Robert Wickham

Biography

Robert Wickham is an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Guelph. He obtained his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1997 and has since held several prestigious research positions. From 1997 to 1999, Wickham was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Florida. He later worked at the Xerox Research Centre of Canada and served as a Research Associate at McMaster University from 1999 to 2003. Wickham previously held an Assistant Professor position at St. Francis Xavier University from 2003 to 2008 before joining the University of Guelph. His research primarily focuses on theoretical soft materials physics, particularly investigating the fundamental aspects of polymeric materials, their self-assembly, and the dynamics involved in their evolution. He places emphasis on modeling complex many-body systems using a combination of sophisticated analytical theories and high-performance computational techniques. His key research interests include the influence of confinement on self-assembly of nanostructures, kinetics of order-order transitions in block copolymers, and the development of accurate field theories for polymer dynamics. Wickham’s work has significant implications for applications in nanolithography, drug delivery, and understanding biological materials' behavior.

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