Alice Thorneywork

Our research focuses on transport phenomena in soft matter and nanoscale systems. In particular, we work with experimental models built from colloids, microfluidics, optical tweezers, solid-state nanopores and DNA nanotechnology to achieve a fundamental understanding of dynamics in interacting many-body systems from the single particle level up.  A significant component of this work involves bright field microscopy, and an important strand of our research is to use our highly-controlled experiments as a testbed for new image and data analysis techniques that can find application in more complex systems. By comprehensively identifying transport mechanisms across length scales, our results have application in the development of new nanofluidic devices for molecular sensing or iontronics. https://thorneyworklab.web.ox.ac.uk/research