Dr Oliver Henrich
Senior Lecturer
Physics
Area of Expertise
Soft condensed matter physics
Coarse-grained simulation of DNA and RNA
Structure, rheology and microfluidics of liquid crystals
New soft and functional composite materials
Mesoscopic simulation methods for fluid dynamics and complex fluids
High-performance computing
Algorithm development and research software engineering
Prize And Awards
- Chancellor's Fellowship
- Recipient
- 2017
- EPSRC Early Career Fellowship
- Recipient
- 2016
- EPSRC Research Software Engineer Fellowship
- Recipient
- 2016
Publications
- Defect-influenced particle advection in highly confined liquid crystal flows
- Lesniewska Magdalena, Mottram Nigel, Henrich Oliver
- 20 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1039/D3SM01297B
- Controllable particle migration in liquid crystal flows
- Lesniewska Magdalena, Mottram Nigel, Henrich Oliver
- Soft Matter Vol 18, pp. 6942-6953 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.1039/D2SM00707J
- Heterogeneous migration routes of DNA triplet repeat slip-outs
- Bianco Simona, Hu Tianhu, Henrich Oliver, Magennis Steven W
- Biophysical Reports Vol 2 (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpr.2022.100070
- A coarse-grained representation of DNA immersed in an external protein force-field
- Bores Cecilia, Henrich Oliver, Chen Chuanying, Pettitt B Montgomery
- Biophysical Journal Vol 121, pp. 209a-209a (2022)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2021.11.1669
- LAMMPS Stable Release Summer 2021
- Henrich Oliver
- (2021)
- A primer on the oxDNA model of DNA : when to use it, how to simulate it and how to interpret the results
- Sengar A, Ouldridge T E, Henrich O, Rovigatti L, Šulc P
- Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences Vol 8 (2021)
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fmolb.2021.693710
Research Interests
Soft condensed matter is an interdisciplinary field at the interface of physics, chemistry and biology. It covers a variety of physical, mostly liquid or gel-like states and systems, which are easily deformable by thermal stresses and fluctuations. Complex fluids such as liquid crystals, colloidal suspensions, glasses, amphiphilic mixtures, polymeric liquids, foams, gels, granular matter and a number of biologically relevant substances fall into this category.
Soft matter is ubiquitous and shares the common feature that the generic physical behaviour occurs at energy scales comparable to thermal energies at room temperature. It also shows a distinct propensity to self-assemble into more complex, mesoscopic structures which determine its mechanical, optical and rheological properties.
A particular focus of my research is on liquid crystals and nano-composite materials. I have also an interest in coarse-grained simulation of DNA and RNA. We try to understand the structural and dynamical behaviour of these systems. This requires modelling of mesoscopic time and length scales between those of the microscopic world of atoms and the macroscopic world we live in. Mesoscopic length scales range roughly from several nanometres (10-9 m) to micrometres (10-6 m).
Personal webpage: https://www.oliverhenrich.com
Professional Activities
- Coarse-grained modelling of DNA triplet repeat slip-outs
- Speaker
- 2023
- Microfluidic Flow of Colloid-Liquid Crystal Composite Materials
- Speaker
- 5/2021
- Coarse-Grained Simulation of DNA Hydrogel Structures
- Speaker
- 9/2020
- Coarse-Grained Modelling of DNA with Applications to DNA Hydrogels
- Speaker
- 8/2020
- Mesoscopic simulation of soft condensed matter
- Speaker
- 12/2/2020
- EPSRC Peer Review College (External organisation)
- Advisor
- 2020
Projects
- DTP 2224 University of Strathclyde | Falloon, Kierran
- Henrich, Oliver (Principal Investigator) Palmer, David (Co-investigator) Falloon, Kierran (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 01-Jan-2027
- Establishing the Accessible Computational Regimes for Biomolecular Simulations at Exascale (SPF Emerging Requirements)
- Henrich, Oliver (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 30-Jan-2024
- oxDNA3 - Introducing Sequence-Specific Curvature Into A Coarse-Grained DNA Model
- Henrich, Oliver (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2025
- EPSRC Vacation Internship
- Henrich, Oliver (Principal Investigator)
- Coarse-grained modelling of DNA- and RNA-protein interactions
- 06-Jan-2022 - 12-Jan-2022
- Carnegie Vacation Scholarship
- Henrich, Oliver (Principal Investigator)
- Carnegie Vacation Scholarship for Mr Lewis Russell
- 18-Jan-2021 - 01-Jan-2021
- EPSRC Core Equipment
- Henrich, Oliver (Co-investigator) Mulheran, Paul (Principal Investigator) Martin, Richard (Co-investigator)
- Extension of ARCHIE-WeSt £60,000
- 01-Jan-2020