Joe Patterson PhD

Joe Patterson is a materials chemist and electron microscopy expert focusing on the liquid phase and cryogenic transmission electron microscopy, and molecular and colloidal self-assembly. Joe was born in Nottingham, England. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Chemistry from the University of York, UK, and conducted his master’s research project with Cytec Engineered Materials at the Wilton Centre. He completed his Ph.D. in radical polymer chemistry and self-assembly at the University of Warwick, UK, in 2013, working under the supervision of Professor Rachel O’Reilly.

As a postdoctoral scholar, he worked for Professor Nathan C. Gianneschi and Professor Kimberly Prather at the University of California San Diego, USA, and the Centre for Aerosol Impacts on Climate and Environment (CAICE). In 2016 he joined the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands, working in the Laboratory of Materials and Interface Chemistry led by Professor Nico Sommerdijk. In July 2018 Joe joined the Department of Chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. He has been awarded several prizes including the Domino/MacroGroupUK Young Polymer Scientist of the Year in 2011, the 2013 Jon Weaver Ph.D. prize, and a Marie Sk?odowska-Curie Individual fellowship in 2017.