Welsh School of Pharmacy

Position: Cardiff Academic Fellow (joint appointment between School of Pharmacy and School of Engineering)

Qualifications

• PhD in Chemical Engineering from Loughborough University (2006)
• MSc (1^st Class Honours) in Physical, Colloid and Surface Science from St Petersburg State University, Russia (2002)
• BSc (1^st Class Honours) in Chemistry from St Petersburg State University, Russia (2000)

Research Interests

Member of the School's    Drug Delivery & Microbiology Research Discipline 

• Novel biomedical materials with functional properties for total joint and disc replacement.
• Surface modification techniques to improve wear performance and biocompatibility of  materials for arthroplasty.
• Mechanical and surface characterisation of materials and pharmaceuticals (nano- and macro scale).
• Medical devices (inhalers, catheters and  implants) and Microbial infection.
• Phenomena of adhesion and bioadhesion.
• Intermolecular and intersurface forces,  friction and wear of  biological systems (native tissues and cells).
• Drug delivery devices:  from formulation to  mechanics of  the devices.
• Biocolloids.

Teaching Profile

Lecturer on MPharm degree  

Positions available: A number of Projects (both experimental and computational modelling) are available for Erasmus and self-funded PhD students.

Fully funded PhD Studentship available for UK /EU students  on

“Mechanism of interaction of cells with nano- and micro- wear particles”, Enquiries regarding the project:  Dr Polina Prokopovich, Welsh School of Pharmacy, prokopovichp@cf.ac.uk; +44 +44 (0) 29208 75808.