Rate My Professor David Armitage

Dr David Armitage is a Senior Lecturer in Pharmaceutical Technologies in the Leicester School of Pharmacy at De Montfort University, within the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences. He earned an honours degree in Physics from the University of Bristol, a Master's degree in Materials Engineering from the University of Liverpool, and a PhD from the University of Nottingham. After completing his doctorate, Dr Armitage received a prestigious Marie Curie Fellowship, which facilitated his work at a medical device manufacturer in Belgium. He subsequently undertook postdoctoral research at the School of Pharmacy, University of Nottingham, and the Eastman Dental Institute, University College London. In 2007, he was appointed Lecturer in Mechanics of Materials at the University of Leicester, prior to joining De Montfort University in 2008 in his current role.

Dr Armitage's research centres on the application of surface modification and surface analytical techniques in the pharmaceutical and biomaterials fields, including the development of novel Process Analytical Technology (PAT) tools for powder flow measurement. His interests also include biocompatible materials, enhancement of orthopaedic implants via metal ion incorporation into modified titanium surfaces, zinc oxide nanostructures to improve surface plasmon resonance sensitivity in biosensors, surface plasmon resonance imaging for point-of-care diagnostics, and characterisation and modification of pharmaceutical material surfaces, alongside optical PAT tools. He serves as admissions tutor for the Pharmaceutical and Cosmetic Science programme and leads modules such as PHAR1703 People and Medicines: GI and Nutrition, PHCO3309 Pharmaceutical Materials Science, and PHCO5303 Analytical Techniques in Materials Sciences. Dr Armitage supervises PhD students including Kennedy Omonalia and Nare Gabrielin. He presented at the 2008 British Pharmaceutical Congress on 'Calcium Enriched Titanium Surfaces via a Hydrothermal Process' and the 2009 Congress on 'Therapeutic Ion Release from Modified Titanium Surfaces'. His publications feature contributions to 'A DNA Nanostructure for the Functional Assembly of Biomolecular Complexes' (2009), 'Selective Protein and DNA Adsorption on PLL-PEG Films' (2009), 'Development of Aqueous Ternary Nanomatrix Films' (2016), and 'Development and Characterisation of Cellulose Based Electrospun Mats for Buccal Delivery of Flufenamic Acid' (2017), with 24 research works and over 800 citations documented on ResearchGate.