Rate My Professor Carl Brown

Brown joined Nottingham Trent University in 2003 as Senior Lecturer, progressing to Reader in Physics (2006-2009) and Professor of Physics (2009-present). He has held key leadership positions, including Acting Associate Dean for Research in the School of Science and Technology (2020), Head of the University-wide Doctoral School (2017-2019), Chair of the Materials Strategic Research Theme Steering Group (2014-2017), and Engineering Research Unit Coordinator for REF2014 (2012-2017). Previously, he served as Departmental Lecturer in Optoelectronics at the University of Oxford (1999-2002) and as Senior Scientific Officer (1996-1998) and Higher Scientific Officer (1993-1996) at the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency. Brown has supervised eleven PhD researchers, achieving ten completions, and secured £3.1 million in grants as Principal or Co-Investigator from EPSRC, EU, UK Ministry of Defence, and industry. He has authored over 75 peer-reviewed papers, including 'Not spreading in reverse: the dewetting of a liquid film into a single drop' (Science Advances, 2016), 'Voltage-programmable liquid optical interface' (Nature Photonics, 2009), 'Dielectrowetting Driven Spreading of Droplets' (Physical Review Letters, 2011), 'Frequency-controlled dielectrophoresis-driven wetting of nematic liquid crystals' (Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2022), and 'Flow manipulation of a nematic liquid crystal in a Hele-Shaw cell with an electrically controlled viscous obstruction' (Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2024). In 2007, he won the Ben Sturgeon Award.