Prof John Sader appointed TCD Adjunct Professor

Professor John Sader, University of Melbourne, has been appointed to the position of Adjunct Professor at Trinity College.  Prof Clive Williams, TCD's Dean of Engineering, Mathematics and Science, presented a certificate to Prof Sader on Friday last, 17th December in CRANN. Prof John Boland, Director of CRANN said "Prof Sader has been visiting Trinity College for eight years and is working closely with a number of colleagues in the School of Physics and CRANN so this recognition is well earned".

Prof Sader was awarded an ETS Walton award from Science Foundation Ireland in 2003, from which an ongoing collaboration with CRANN spawned. He leads an interdisciplinary theoretical group at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne, Australia. His research interests span a wide range of fields and include studies in nanomechanics, fluid mechanics, elasticity, electromagnetism, colloid and surface science and scientific instrumentation development. This stems from his multidisciplinary background as a trained electrical engineer and subsequent research focus in continuum mechanics. He is widely recognised for his work in AFM, for which he developed a calibration technique, now known as the “Sader method”.  A sample of his recent research efforts include development of models for determination of the materials properties of nanowires, dynamic response of nanoparticles under femtosecond laser excitation, failure of plastic materials under gravity, high Reynolds number flow of thin films, investigation of fundamental properties of microcantilevers/nanocantilevers and development of techniques for the calibration, and models for the dynamic behaviour of elastic beams immersed in fluids.

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