Personal Statement
Anders Aufderhorst-Roberts is a Lecturer in Sustainable & Biological Materials at the University of Liverpool and a Visiting Fellow at Durham University. His research group is focused on the use and development of experimental tools to characterise the dynamic and responsive behaviour of soft and biological materials under changing mechanical environments. His PhD, with Prof Athene Donald FRS at the University of Cambridge, investigated the self-assembly of small molecules for food and personal care applications, in collaboration with Unilever R&D. His postdoctoral experience at the University of Leeds and at AMOLF, in the Netherlands focussed on materials characterisation of soft, biological and bioinspired materials. His research interests are diverse encompassing both fundamental material science, formulation and biological materials research and his group’s funding is diverse, spanning Industry, Government and Charitable Foundations.

Research Overview
I am a soft matter physicist with an interest in understanding the unique and unusual mechanical properties of living materials. My research group is broadly focussed on soft materials, biologically inspired materials and new approaches in rheology instrumentation. I currently lead the LILACS (Looking Inside Living Algal Cell Walls - A Soft Matter Approach) research consortium, which is focussed on reaching a fundamental understanding of mechanical properties of the cell walls of green algae, with partners at Durham University and Imperial. More details of this can be found here.