Dr Matthew Derry joined the Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry (CEAC) department in December 2019 as a Lecturer in Chemistry and was promoted to Senior Lecturer in August 2024. Prior to joining Aston University he studied for his MChem degree in Chemistry with a Year in Industry at the University of York in 2012. This was followed by an industrially-funded PhD in Polymer Chemistry at the University of Sheffield under the supervision of Professor Steven P. Armes FRS in 2016, where his thesis was entitled "Polymerisation-induced self-assembly in non-polar media". He then continued at the University of Sheffield as a Research Associate to study block copolymer self-assembly using X-ray scattering in the groups of Professor Steven P. Armes FRS, Professor Anthony J. Ryan OBE and Dr Oleksandr O. Mykhaylyk.

Polymer Science

Materials Science

Block Copolymer Self-Assembly

X-ray Scattering

PhD in Polymer Chemistry, University of Sheffield, 2016

MChem in Chemistry with a Year in Industry, University of York, 2012

April 2016 - November 2019: Research Associate, University of Sheffield

Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry

Organic Chemistry I (CH1ORC)

Polymer II (CH3POL)

Chemistry Research Projects (CH3RPJ)

Literature Research Projects (CH3LRP)

Demonstrating Chemistry (CH30DC)

Phone number: 0121 204 3252

Email: [email protected]

Room number: MB132