Alice Thorneywork

Alice Thorneywork is an Associate Professor of Physical Chemistry and Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. She completed her undergraduate degree in Chemistry and DPhil in Physical and Theoretical Chemistry also in Oxford, and was awarded the 2019 RSC Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics Group Young Scientist Award for her doctoral research on colloidal hard disk model systems. In 2016, Alice moved to the Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge where she began her independent research career first as an Oppenheimer Research Fellow and then a Royal Society University Research Fellow. In 2022, Alice returned to the Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Laboratory, University of Oxford, where she leads a group focusing on experimental studies of soft matter and nanoscale systems.