Linda S. Hirst

Linda Susan Hirst (also published as Linda Susan Matkin)[1] is a British and American condensed matter physicist whose research concerns liquid crystals, soft matter, active matter, and the physical behavior of biological structures at the subcellular level. She is a professor of physics at the University of California, Merced.[2]

Education and career

Hirst is originally from Liverpool. She received both a bachelor's degree with first-class honours in 1998 and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Manchester,[1][3] completing her Ph.D. in 2001 with a dissertation on liquid crystals.[1]

After postdoctoral research at the University of California, Santa Barbara, she joined the Florida State University faculty[4] before moving to her present position at UC Merced in 2008.[3]

Textbook

Hirst is the author of the textbook Fundamentals of Soft Matter Science (CRC Press, 2013; 2nd ed., 2020).[5]

Recognition

Hirst was the 2019 recipient of the Hilsum Medal of the British Liquid Crystal Society.[6] She was elected in 2021 as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination from the APS Division of Soft Matter, "for fundamental experimental studies of the phases and dynamics of synthetic, biological, and biologically inspired membranes and liquid crystal materials".[7]

References

  1. ^ a b c Matkin, Linda Susan (2002), An X-ray and Electro-optical Study of the Liquid Crystal Smectic C* Sub-phases (Ph.D. thesis), University of Manchester, ProQuest 2117232746
  2. ^ "Linda S. Hirst", People, UC Merced School of Natural Sciences, retrieved 2025-07-15
  3. ^ a b "Dr. Linda Hirst", Speaker biographies: San Diego Comic Fest, retrieved 2025-07-15
  4. ^ "Prof. Linda Hirst, UC Merced", Colloquium announcement: "Chaos in Active Nematics", UC Santa Barbara Materials, November 2019, retrieved 2025-07-15
  5. ^ Reviews of Fundamentals of Soft Matter Science:
  6. ^ Hilsum Medal, British Liquid Crystal Society, retrieved 2025-07-15
  7. ^ "Fellows nominated in 2021 by the Division of Soft Matter", APS Fellows archive, American Physical Society, retrieved 2025-07-15
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