Rate My Professor Ignacio Martin-Fabiani

Martin-Fabiani's research specializations encompass fundamental soft matter and colloidal science, functional coatings including antibacterial, abrasion-resistant, and photocatalytic varieties, data-driven liquid formulation optimisation, microplastics detection and characterisation, and sustainability assessments. As principal investigator, he has secured major grants such as the £1.1 million UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship (2020-2025) for a bioinspired platform technology for next-generation functional paints and coatings, its £567,000 renewal (2025-2028), the EPSRC-NSF Harnessing colloidal engineering for new opacifiers (£660,000, 2025-2028), and the Horizon Europe SSbD4CheM project (€7.5 million, 2024-2027). His accolades include the 2024 Science Award at the Coatings Science International Conference, 2020 UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, 2019 Polymer Lecture Exchange Award by the Institute of Physics and American Physical Society, 2016 Santander Mobility Award, and 2015 Award for the best PhD thesis using synchrotron light by the Spanish Synchrotron User Association. Key publications comprise 'Tunable assembly of photocatalytic colloidal coatings for antibacterial applications' (ACS Applied Polymer Materials, 2024), 'Understanding associative polymer self-assembly with shrinking gate fluorescence correlation spectroscopy' (Nanoscale, 2024), 'Ballistic thermal phonons traversing nanocrystalline domains in oriented polyethylene' (PNAS, 2019), and 'Dynamical density functional theory for the drying and stratification of binary colloidal dispersions' (Langmuir, 2021). His work impacts coatings technology, polymer nanocomposites, and sustainable materials through advancements in colloidal assembly and antibacterial surfaces. Martin-Fabiani lectures in Colloid Science and Engineering (CPG010) and Design and Make 2 (CGB024), and supervises final-year and master's projects.