Hazel Assender

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Hazel Assender
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Hazel Elaine Assender
Alma mater University of Cambridge (MA, PhD)
Scientific career
Fields Polymers
Thin film electronics
Microstructural Characterisation
Materials science
Institutions University of Oxford
Thesis Magnetically induced microstructures in liquid crystalline polymers  (1994)
Website www.materials.ox.ac.uk/peoplepages/assender.html

Hazel Elaine Assender CPhys , [1] is the head of Department and Professor of Materials at the Department of Materials, University of Oxford. [2] She is an expert in polymer chemistry, thin film electronics and nanomaterials. Assender is a fellow of Linacre College, Oxford. [3]

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Education

Assender studied the Natural Sciences Tripos at the University of Cambridge, graduating in 1990. [4] In 1990, Assender started her PhD in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy [ citation needed ] and completed her thesis on "Magnetically induced microstructures in liquid crystalline polymers" in 1994. [5] [6] [7]

Research and career

After two years as a post doctoral researcher, [4] in 1996 Assender moved to a lectureship in the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford[ citation needed ] where she focuses on thin films and coatings of polymer materials and onto polymer substrates. During her time in Oxford, she has developed expertise in roll-to-roll [8] deposition, gas barriers, photovoltaics, and polymer electronics (including transistors and circuits). [9] Assender has worked 80% full-time since her second child was born. [4]

In 2001 Assender co-edited the book "Aerospace Materials" with Brian Cantor and Patrick Grant. [10] She spoke at the 2015 University of Cambridge "Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers Company forum", a highlight of the academic UK materials science calendar, to highlight roll-to-roll vacuum processing to create multi-layer polymer electronic thin films. [11]

Assender continues to collaborate across the UK and is currently a member of the Centre for Plastic Electronics Centre for Doctoral Training (with colleagues from Oxford, Imperial, and Queen Mary University London). [12] Assender's research is inspired by her desire to solve industrial challenges. [4] Her recent work has considered wearable electronics as part of the Wearable and Flexible Technologies (WAFT) consortium with colleagues at Oxford, Southampton and Exeter Universities. [13]

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