Rate My Professor Andrew Archer

Professor Andrew Archer is Professor of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Loughborough University, where he also serves as Maths Research Coordinator. His academic background includes an MSci in Physics awarded by the University of Bristol following undergraduate studies from 1996 to 2000, and a PhD in Theoretical Physics also from the University of Bristol completed between 2000 and 2003. Prior to joining Loughborough University, he held an EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Theoretical Physics at the University of Bristol from 2003 to 2006 and worked as a Research Scientist in the Physics Department at the University of Bath in 2006. He began his career at Loughborough University in 2006 as an RCUK Academic Fellow in the Department of Mathematical Sciences, progressing to Lecturer from 2006 to 2013, Senior Lecturer from 2013 to 2017, and Professor since 2017. Additional appointments at the institution include Head of the Department of Mathematical Sciences from 2015 to 2018 and Acting Dean of Science for six months in 2018.

Professor Archer’s research lies in the field of soft condensed matter and liquid state theory. His topics of current interest include the behaviour of liquids at interfaces such as wetting properties, the structures and patterns formed when thin films of colloidal suspensions are placed on surfaces and the solvent evaporates leading to regular line patterns, branched finger patterns, network patterns and other deposited structures, the development of dynamical density functional theories to describe the microscopic structure and dynamics of colloidal fluids, theories addressing the phase behaviour of fluids including how and why colloidal fluids phase separate into low density and high density phases and when they freeze or form a glass along with the dynamics of these changes, and understanding how and why quasicrystals form. He is responsible for teaching modules including MAP111 Mathematical Modelling 1, MAP211 Mathematical Modelling 2, and MAC249 Linear Differential Equations.

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