Job Thijssen

I am an experimental physicist by training, with research experience of soft matter physics. My research focusses on the physics and applications of soft materials. Examples of soft materials include colloids (e.g. milk), droplets (e.g. emulsions), gels (e.g. bijels), polymers, and biological materials (e.g. blood). My current research interests include colloidal crystals (for energy applications), droplets (the coffee-ring effect), bijels, and (interfacial) rheology. I also have an interest in particle and materials characterization: confocal microscopy, electron microscopy, image analysis, machine learning, spectroscopy and (light) scattering. I am currently a Reader in the School of Physics & Astronomy at The University of Edinburgh, where I teach Scientific Image Analysis, run the integrated-masters dissertation projects course, and I supervise undergraduate & PhD research projects. Past collaborative projects include interfaces in energy materials (MISE) and equality, diversity and inclusion in STEM (Inclusion Matters eBase). Current collaborations include forensics (evaporation of blood droplets) and knowledge exchange with industry on formulation i.e. bespoke design of complex fluids (ECFP).

[2026] Particle Sizing in Milk by Combined Differential Dynamic Microscopy and Cryo-FIB-SEM Tomography, Soft Matter, 2026, 23, p. 4074-4081 [2025] Impact of particle-size polydispersity on the quality of thin-film colloidal crystals, Soft Matter, 2025, 42, p. 8122-8129 [2025] Using Contactless Interfacial Rheology to Probe Interfacial Mechanics for Compositional Ripening, Langmuir, 41, 18, p. 11339-11348 [2023] Contactless Interfacial Rheology: Probing Shear at Liquid-Liquid Interfaces without an Interfacial Geometry via Fluorescence Microscopy, Journal of rheology, 67, 1, p. 67-80