Dr Oliver Henrich
Senior Lecturer
Physics
Prize And Awards
- Chancellor's Fellowship
- Recipient
- 2017
- EPSRC Research Software Engineer Fellowship
- Recipient
- 2016
- EPSRC Early Career Fellowship
- Recipient
- 2016
Publications
- Meso-Soup : a community approach to building a computational description of the biological mesoscale
- Harris Sarah Anne, Lattanzi Gianluca, Rosa Angelo, Everaers Ralf, Papoian Garegin, Vidal Adria, Brown Chelsea, Liverpool Tanniemola, Pasos-Trejo Aldo, Sadeghi Mohsen, Khalid Syma, Ramanathan Arvind, Henrich Oliver, Dougan Lorna, Freyberg Zachary, Pezeshkian Weria, Sept David, Geiger Beatrice, Beccaria Riccardo, Beales Paul, Covino Roberto, Cocking Ryan, Castelli Matteo, Kundu Sumanta, Aureli Simone, Breoni Davide, Mazza Fabio, Paternoster Costanza, Morand Jules, Micheloni Manuel, Cordoni Francesco, Beaules Lea, van der Hoek Pieter, Sillano Pietro, Coronas Luis Enrique, Coshic Kush, Petrolli Lorenzo, Trovato Antonio, Karttunen Mikko, Bartocci Alessio, Inverardi Giovanni Novi, Carnovale Francesco
- Biophysical Journal (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2026.07.016
- Shape, confinement and inertia effects on the dynamics of a driven spheroid in a viscous fluid
- Bhowmik Aditya, Stratford Kevin, Henrich Oliver, Thampi Sumesh P
- Soft Matter Vol 22, pp. 2856–2869 (2026)
- https://doi.org/10.1039/D6SM00038J
- Engineering supercomputing platforms for biomolecular applications
- Welch Robert, Laughton Charles, Henrich Oliver, Burnley Tom, Cole Daniel, Real Alan, Harris Sarah, Gebbie-Rayet James
- (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2506.15585
- Simulating dynamics of ellipsoidal particles using lattice Boltzmann method
- Thampi Sumesh P, Stratford Kevin, Henrich Oliver
- Physical Review E Vol 109 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.109.065302
- 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
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-2026
- 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