Jonathan Coleman FRS 2022 - Present
Jonathan Coleman is the Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy (1724) in the School of Physics, and a Principal Investigator in the AMBER Research centre at Trinity College Dublin. He was born in Dublin in 1973 and attended the King’s Hospital School before entering TCD to study Experimental Physics in 1991. He graduated with First Class Honours and a Gold Medal in Physics in 1995 and completed a PhD in Physics in TCD in 1999, working in the research group of Werner Blau. He became a junior lecturer in 2001, rising to the Chair of Chemical Physics in 2011. He was appointed to his current position in 2022.
Prof Coleman’s area of interest is in solution processing of nano-materials, predominately carbon nanotubes, nanowires and 2D nanosheets such as graphene. He is most well-known for developing Liquid Phase Exfoliation, a versatile and widely used method for preparing 2D materials. These solution processing methods allow the formation of dispersions, suspensions and solutions of nanostructures and facilitate the production of coatings, thin films and composites. Coleman works on applying these materials and methods in a number of areas including electro-mechanical sensors, printed electronics and energy storage materials.
He has published >400 papers in journals including Nature and Science and has been cited >100,000 times. He was recently listed by Thomson Reuters among the world’s top 100 materials scientists and has collaborated with many companies including Hewlett-Packard, Intel, SAB Miller, Nokia-Bell Labs and Thomas Swan. His work has been recognised via various prizes and awards including the Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal in the Physical and Mathematical Sciences, the Tabor Medal of the Institute of Physics, the ACS Nano Award Lecture and the Kroll Medal, Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. He has been elected to Membership of the Royal Irish Academy (MRIA) and to Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS).
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- Trinity Research (2019), Professor Jonathan Coleman, TCD, https://www.tcd.ie/research/profiles/?profile=COLEMAJ
- Amber Centre (Accessed July 2023), Jonathan Coleman, In Amber Centre, https://ambercentre.ie/people/jonathancoleman/
- Research Gate (Accessed July 2023), Jonathan Coleman, In Research Gate https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Jonathan-Coleman
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