Tiffany Wood - Curriculum Vitae

Curriculum Vitae:

  1. Biography
  2. Publications
  3. Presentations
  4. Other activities

Biography:

1999 Awarded 2:1 Master of Physics (MPhys) University of Manchester, UK
2000 Taught G.C.S.E.level Physics, Kasama Secondary School, Zambia
2000 Awarded Scholarship for Post-Graduate Study, Jersey
2004 Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Physical Chemistry, University of Bristol, UK
2005 Awarded PhD in Physics entitled "Optical Trapping and Liquid Crystals", University of Manchester, UK
2006 Awarded Level 4 Introductory Diploma in Management from City of Bristol College

Publications:

  1. "Characterisation of Microparticles with driven Optical Tweezers"(open)
    , T. A.Wood , G. S. Roberts ,S. Eaimkhong and P. Bartlett, Faraday Discussions, 137, 2007.
  2. "Electrostatic charging of nonpolar colloids by reverse micelles"(open)
    , G. S. Roberts , R. Sanchez, R. Kemp, T.A. Wood and P. Bartlett, Langmuir, 24, 2008.
  3. "Direct measurement of the effective charge in nonpolar suspensions by optical tracking of single particles"(open)
    , G. S. Roberts, T. A. Wood, W. J. Frith and P. Bartlett, Journal of Chemical Physics, 126 (19), 194503, 2007.
  4. "Measurement of Effective Temperatures in an Aging Colloidal Glass"(open)
    Greinert N., Wood T.A., Bartlett P., Physical Review Letters, 97, 265702, 2006.
  5. "Laser manipulation in liquid crystals: an approach to microfluidics and micromachines" (open)
    Gleeson H. F., Wood T. A., Dickinson M. R., Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences, 364 (1847): 2789-2805, 2006.
  6. "Mechanisms of optical angular momentum transfer to nematic liquid crystalline droplets"(open)
    Wood T. A., Gleeson H. F., Dickinson M. R. and Wright A. J., Applied Physics Letters, 84 (21): 4292-4294, 2004
  7. "The transverse trapping force of an optical trap: factors affecting its measurement" (open)
    Wright A. J., Wood T. A., Dickinson M. R., Gleeson H. F. and Mullin T., Journal of Modern Optics, 50 (10): 1521-1532, 2003
  8. "Investigation of the Factors Affecting the Transverse Force Measurements of an Optical Trap. Part I"
    Wood T. A., Wright A. J., Gleeson H. F., Dickinson M. R., Mullin T. and Murray A., Proceedings of the SPIE, 4634: 128-134, 2002
  9. "Investigation of the Factors Affecting the Transverse Force Measurements of an Optical Trap. Part II"
    Wright A. J., Wood T. A., Gleeson H. F., Dickinson M. R., Mullin T. and Murray A., Proceedings of the SPIE, 4622: 195-203, 2002

Presentations:

  1. Talk "Are Glasses Hot?" Greinert N., Wood T.A., Bartlett P., Arrested Matter Network Winter Workshop, Bad Gastein, Austria, January 2007
  2. Invited Talk "Optical Tweezers for Probing the Dynamics of Colloidal Glasses: Are Glasses Hot?" N. Greinert, Wood T.A., Greinert N., Bartlett P., Non-linear and Condensed Matter Group Talks, Manchester University, UK, November 2006
  3. Poster "Rotational microrheology in a glass-forming liquid" Wood T.A., Eaimkhong S., Bartlett P., Greinert N., IV Workshop on Non Equilibrium Phenomena in Supercooled Fluids, Glasses and Amorphous Materials, Pisa, Italy, September 2006
  4. Poster "Experimental Measurement of an "effective" temperature in a glass-forming liquid" N. Greinert,Wood T.A.,Bartlett P.: Marie Curie Workshop, Lugano, Switzerland, April 2006
  5. Talk "Laser Manipulation in liquid crystals- an approach to micromachines and microfluidics "
    Gleeson H.F. and Wood T.A: Faraday Discussion meeting on New Directions in Liquid Crystal Science, London, UK, December 2005
  6. Invited Talk "Laser Manipulation in Liquid Crystal Systems"
    Gleeson H.F. and Wood T.A: 8th European Conference on Liquid Crystals, Sesto, Italy, February 2005
  7. Poster "Direct Measurement of Effective Temperatures"
    N. Greinert, T.A. Wood, P. Bartlett: Utrecht Colloid Course, Utrecht, The Netherlands, February 2005
  8. Talk "Optical Manipulation of Colloids within a Liquid Crystalline Media"
    Wood T.A. and Gleeson H.F.: International Liquid Crystal Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 2004
  9. Poster "Laser Manipulation of Liquid Crystalline Droplets"
    Wood T.A. and Gleeson H.F.: International Liquid Crystal Conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 2004
  10. Talk "The Transfer of Angular Momentum to Nematic and Chiral Nematic Liquid Crystalline Droplets"
    Wood T.A. and Gleeson H.F.:British Liquid Crystal Society Conference, Manchester, UK, April 2004
  11. Talk "Optical Trapping of Cholesteric Liquid Crystalline Droplets"
    Wood T.A. and Gleeson H.F.: PREP 2003, Exeter, UK, April 2003
  12. Talk "Wave plate Behaviour of Nematic Droplets within an Optical Trap"
    Wood T.A. and Gleeson H.F.: Manchester Centre of Non-Linear Dynamics Seminar Series, Manchester, UK, January 2003
  13. Talk "Optical Trapping of Cholesteric Liquid Crystalline Droplets"
    Wood T.A. and Gleeson H.F.: International Liquid Crystal Conference, Edinburgh, UK, July 2002
  14. Poster "Investigation of the Factors Affecting the Transverse Force Measurements of an Optical Trap. Part I" Wood T. A., Wright A. J., Gleeson H. F., Dickinson M. R., Mullin T. and Murray A.:Institute of Physics Meeting, London, UK, March 2002
  15. Poster "Investigation of the Factors Affecting the Transverse Force Measurements of an Optical Trap. Part II" Wood T. A., Wright A. J., Gleeson H. F., Dickinson M. R., Mullin T. and Murray A.: Institute of Physics Meeting, London, UK, March 2002
  16. Talk "Investigation of the Factors Affecting the Transverse Force Measurements of an Optical Trap. Part I" Wood T. A., Wright A. J., Gleeson H. F., Dickinson M. R., Mullin T. and Murray A.: Photonics West, California, USA, January 2002
  17. Talk "Investigation of the Factors Affecting the Transverse Force Measurements of an Optical Trap. Part II" Wood T. A., Wright A. J., Gleeson H. F., Dickinson M. R., Mullin T. and Murray A.: Photonics West, California, USA, January 2002
  18. Poster "Modelling of a Single Pixel Liquid Crystal Device" N.W.Roberts and Wood T.A.: Quantum Electronics and Photonics Conference 14, Manchester, UK, July 1999

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