Rate My Professor Halim Kusumaatmaja

Kusumaatmaja obtained his PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Oxford. He completed postdoctoral research fellowships at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces and the University of Cambridge. Progressing from Assistant Professor to Associate Professor and then Full Professor in the Department of Physics at Durham University, he retains a Visiting Professorship there. He holds a £1.1 million EPSRC Fellowship in Engineering. With 88 research articles and over 7,600 citations per Google Scholar, his contributions significantly influence the field. Select publications include "Multiple Equilibria Enables Tunable Wetting of Droplets on Patterned Liquid Surfaces" (Science Advances), "Non-invasive Measurement of Biomolecular Condensate Interfacial Tension and Bending Rigidity" (Cell Reports Methods, 2025), "Magnetically Reconfigurable Multistable Ribbon Arrays for Liquid Manipulation" (Device, 2025), "The nucleation and growth of mixed H2O–CO2 bubbles in magmas" (Journal of Volcanology and Geothermal Research, 2026), and "Stretching and Compressing Capillary Bridges on Hydrophilic, Hydrophobic, and Liquid Infused Surfaces" (Langmuir, 2026). Ongoing funded projects feature Scale Up Mathematics for Formulated Products (SUM4Products), Development of next generation disruptive mega-casting technologies for green and sustainable transportation vehicles (MegaCast), and Designing Structured Surfaces with Superwettability Properties.