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Morgan Alexander

Professor of Biomedical Surfaces, Head of Division of Biophysics and Surface Analysis, Faculty of Science

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Morgan Alexander is Professor of Biomedical Surfaces at the School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham. He received his Bachelor of Science in Materials in 1988 and his PhD from the same department… read more

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Current Research

Morgan Alexander is Professor of Biomedical Surfaces at the School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham. He received his Bachelor of Science in Materials in 1988 and his PhD from the same department at The University of Sheffield in 1992.

His work comprises making materials for application in biological environments and characterising them in order to determine what relationships exist between surface chemistry and biological response. This question is critical in the development of biomaterials and is the theme running through his group's work across a variety of biomedical application areas including bacterial adhesion to polymers and retaining stem cell pluripotency in synthetic culture systems.

He has contributed to books on surface chemical modification and analysis and has authored over 130 papers dealing with surfaces in high quality peer reviewed publications, including research articles in Nature Materials, Advanced Materials, and Biomaterials. This research is highly interdisciplinary, involving collaborators from a wide variety of fields including regenerative medicine, neuroscience, developmental biology, pharmaceutics, materials processing, plasma physics and nanofabrication. This work is funded by The Wellcome Trust, EPSRC, BBSRC, EMDA, MRC, DSTL and industry. A number of his group have gone on to take up lectureships.

Biography

  • 2010 - present Head of The Laboratory of Biophysics and Surface Analysis.
  • 2010 - present Professor of Biomedical Surfaces, The University of Nottingham.
  • 2004 - 2010 Associate Professor and Reader of Biomedical Surface Analysis.
  • 1998 - 2003 EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer, UMIST.
  • 1996 - 1998 EU Marie Curie Fellow, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, France.
  • 1993 -1996 Post Doctoral Researcher, Department of Engineering Materials, University of Sheffield.
  • 1992 - 1993 Surface Analyst, CSMA Ltd, Manchester.
  • 1988 - 1992 PhD, The University of Sheffield.
  • 1985 - 1988 B.Sc. Tech., Materials Science, The University of Sheffield.

Honours and Distinctions

  • Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry 2008.
  • Chair of EPSRC Materials Programme funding panel 2004.
  • EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow 1998-2003.
  • EPSRC Peer Review College member 1999 to date.

Teaching

  • Pharmaceutics 1: Physicochemical Science and Medicines Design.
  • Post Graduate course: Report writing skills.
  • Convenor: The Scientific Entrepreneur: Starting your own pharmaceutical or biotech company and protecting your inventions
  • Convenor: Pharmaceutical Technology (Practical module).

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