Kyle Baldwin, Phd Email & Phone Number

Since 2012 I have been working as an experimental soft matter physicist, which has led me to a senior lecturer position in Nottingham. I began my research career at NTU, focusing on the behaviour of evaporating polymer solutions, in particular, working on a solution to the much maligned "coffee-ring effect" which hinders ink-jet printing. In the years that followed my PhD as a post-doctoral researcher, I have stayed within the realm of soft matter physics, exploring: the shapes of spinning drops and tektite formation; inhibition of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability by rotation; vibration induced propulsion; and propulsive "active" emulsions.Beyond research, I am passionate about talking science in and out of the lecture hall. My experience of lecturing began in 2017 in Germany, where I lectured a course in Climate Physics at the Georg-August University, Göttingen. Since January 2019, I have been in a senior lecturer position at Nottingham Trent University, where I have taught modules covering the fundamental forces of nature, and an introduction to programming for physicists via LabVIEW and MATLAB. I have also given numerous public talks (including being invited to present my work at the 2014 Geophysical Union in San Francisco), and have ran/participated in outreach events whenever possible - such as the Pint of Science festival and the 3-Minute Wonder competition. I write science inspired blogs on my website, adropofscience.com, where I also detail my areas of research, and display my droplet photography.I have been drawn to soft matter physics due in part to the bountiful number of unanswered questions in the field, pondering which has sustained my curiosity and enthusiasm. But also it is largely due to the hands-on nature of this field of science; it is a constant source of amazement that with some pumps, liquids, dyes and magnets, one can begin to understand a wide variety of seemingly unrelated physical phenomena, such as tectonic drift, atomic fission, and supernovae, through table top experiments that you can witness with your own eyes.

Listed skills include Physics, Experimental Physics, Fluid Dynamics, Evaporation, and 18 others.