Prof. Mark Richard Wilson

Mark Wilson is Professor of Computational Chemistry and former Head of Chemistry at Durham. After obtaining a First Class degree in Chemistry in 1985 and a Ph.D. in 1988 from the University of Sheffield, he became a SERC Fellow at the H. H. Wills Physics Laboratory (University of Bristol). He took up his first lectureship post in the Department of Physics at the University of Lancaster 1990–1995, moved to Durham as a Lecturer in Chemistry in December 1995, and became a Professor in 2009 and Head of Department in August 2014. His awards include the British Liquid Crystal Society young scientist prize, a Turner prize from the University of Sheffield (best thesis prize), a Pilkington prize from the University of Lancaster (best teaching across science) and the Durham Student's Union Science Lecturer of the Year Award (2013). He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC). His research interests cover the area of soft matter simulations, concentrating on liquid crystals, polymers, dendrimers, complex fluids, proteins and membranes and nanostructured soft materials. Much of the work uses molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo methods employing simulations at both atomistic and coarse-grained levels.