Biography: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
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Matkin, Linda Susan (2002), An X-ray and Electro-optical Study of the Liquid Crystal Smectic C* Sub-phases, University of Manchester, ProQuest 2117232746
- ↑ "Linda S. Hirst", People (UC Merced School of Natural Sciences), https://naturalsciences.ucmerced.edu/people/linda-s-hirst-0, retrieved 2025-07-15
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Dr. Linda Hirst", Speaker biographies: San Diego Comic Fest, https://www.sdcomicfest.org/dr-linda-hirst/, retrieved 2025-07-15
- ↑ "Prof. Linda Hirst, UC Merced", Colloquium announcement: "Chaos in Active Nematics" (UC Santa Barbara Materials), November 2019, https://materials.ucsb.edu/events/prof-linda-hirst-uc-merced, retrieved 2025-07-15
- ↑ Reviews of Fundamentals of Soft Matter Science:
- Ingo Dierking (2014), Liquid Crystals Today, doi:10.1080/1358314X.2014.898883
- Hans M. Wyss (2013), Physics Today, doi:10.1063/PT.3.2181
- H. Giesche (2020), Choice, [1]
- ↑ Hilsum Medal, British Liquid Crystal Society, http://blcs.eng.cam.ac.uk/?page_id=65, retrieved 2025-07-15
- ↑ "Fellows nominated in 2021 by the Division of Soft Matter", APS Fellows archive (American Physical Society), https://www.aps.org/funding-recognition/aps-fellowship?t=Division%20of%20Soft%20Matter%20Fellowship&y=2021&af=true, retrieved 2025-07-15
External links
- Hirst Lab
- Linda S. Hirst publications indexed by Google Scholar
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