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CV: Dr Jonathan Nesbit Coleman
Date of Birth: 22 January 1973 Nationality: Irish
Address: School of Physics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, IRELAND
Email: colemaj@tcd.ie
Phone: +353-(0)1-6083859 Fax: +353-(0)1-6711759
EDUCATION & EMPLOYMENT
2006 Associate Professor in Physics
2006 Senior Lecturer in Physics
2005 Elected to Fellowship of TCD
2004 Appointed to one of two permanent positions College-wide under
“Newblood Lecturer” scheme
2002 Visiting Researcher at the Nanotech Institute, University of Texas, Dallas
under Prof Ray Baughman.
2001 - Lecturer in Physics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
1999 - 2001 HEA Research Fellow, Physics Dept, TCD
1998 Visiting Researcher in MPI Stuttgart as part of EU RTN Project
“NAMITECH” under Dr Siegmar Roth.
1995 - 1999 Physics Dept, TCD. PhD in Physics
1991 - 1995 Physics Dept, TCD. BA in Physics (Hons) Class: 1 and Gold Medal, First in
year
RESEARCH CAREER
I have co-authored 86 peer reviewed papers in International journals and 32
conference proceedings. These journal papers have been cited a total of ~2200 times to date.
I have a research H-index of 25 (This means I have 25 papers with at least 25 citations: see
Nature 436, 900 2005). One of my papers has amassed well over 240 citations in just 4 years.
News coverage of this work in the popular press includes reports in The Sunday Times, and
The Dallas Morning News among others. In addition my work has featured in New Scientist,
C&E News, Chemistry World, Materials Today and on regional TV in the US. Over the last
five years I have presented 11 invited contributions at international conferences, and a
number of invited presentations at universities and laboratories. I am an inventor on two
patents and have co-supervised 10 successful PhD students.
Research Group: 3 postdocs, 10 postgrads
Research area: Chemical physics of one-dimensional nanostructures; carbon nanotubes,
inorganic nanowires, polymer-nanostructure composites (mechanical and electrical
properties), dispersions, suspensions and solutions of nanostructures.
INVITED TALKS
Nanotec01, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, Oct 2001
International Winterschool on Electronic Properties of Novel Materials, Kirchberg, Tyrol,
Austria, March 2002
Nanotec03, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, Oct 2003
Chemistry and Self Assembly For Nanotechnology, Namur Belgium, Feb 2004
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SPIE: Microtechnologies for the New Millennium, Gran Canaria, Spain, May 2003
NT04, San Luis Potosi, Mexico, July 2004
International Winterschool on Electronic Properties of Novel Materials, Kirchberg, Tyrol,
Austria, March 2005
Materials Research Society, Spring Meeting, San Francisco, USA, April 2005
Chem ‘n Tubes, Arcachon, France, April 2006
Canape EU Research meeting, Berlin, October 2006
The Society of Plastics Engineers Annula Meeting, Ohio, May 2007
CNT NET Conference, Cambridge, Sept 2007
INVITED DEPARTMENTAL SEMINARS
Chemistry Department, Fritz Haber Institute, Berlin, May 2003
Josef Stefan Institute, Ljubljana, Slovenia, May 2003
Kavli Department of Nanoscience, University Delft, Netherlands, October 2004
Physics Department, University of Surrey at Guilford, November 2004
School of Chemistry, University of Dublin, Nov 2005
Materials and Surface Science Institute, University of Limerick, Sept 2006
History Of Grant Funding
PRTLI Self-Assembling Nanomaterials 2002-2005 128,000
SFI-BRG High Performance polymer-nanotube composites (PI). 2004 137,800
HFSP Peptide Coated Nanotubes. 2005 228,000
SFI-BRG Composite Solar Cells 2006
174,000
SFI-HP Flexible Electrodes (Lead PI) 2006 1.7M
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