Dr Fairhurst is the Admissions Tutor for Physics. He leads the modules:
- Instrumentation and Programming (PHYS12721)
- Introduction to Laboratory Software (PHYS125113)
- Advanced Modern Physics (PHYS32162).
He also teaches on the modules:
- Optics and Semiconductors (PHYS2222)
- Experimental Techniques (PHYS32211)
- Project Phys/Ast/Inst (PHYS33611).
Areas of research interest include:
- Experimental soft matter physics, including dynamics of polymer solutions and dissolution of surfactants using microscopy, optical manipulation, micro- and macro-rheology
- Evaporation of liquid droplets and films, and the patterns left behind.
Further information may be obtained from the NTU Graduate School.
Selected publications
- Swelling and shrinking kinetics of a lamellar gel phase. Fairhurst DJ, Baker ME, Shaw N, Egelhaaf SU, Applied Physics Letters, 2008, 92 (17), article 174105
- Three-dimensional structure and growth of myelins. Reissig L, Fairhurst DJ, Leng J, Cates ME, Mount AR and Egelhaaf SU, Langmuir, 2010, 26 (19), 15192-15199
- Drying and deposition of poly(ethylene oxide) droplets determined by Péclet number. Baldwin K, Granjard M, Willmer D, Sefiane K and Fairhurst DJ, Soft Matter, 2011, 7 (17), 7819-7826
- Monolith formation and ring-stain suppression in low-pressure evaporation of poly(ethylene oxide) droplets. Baldwin K, Roest S, Fairhurst DJ, Sefiane K and Shanahan MER, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2012, 695, 321-329
For full list go to David Fairhurst's publications link above.