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Linda Susan Hirst (also published as Linda Susan Matkin) [1] is a British and American condensed matter physicist whose research concerns liquid crystals, soft matter, active matter, and the physical behavior of biological structures at the subcellular level. She is a professor of physics at the University of California, Merced. [2]
Hirst is originally from Liverpool. She received both a bachelor's degree with first-class honours in 1998 and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Manchester, [1] [3] completing her Ph.D. in 2001 with a dissertation on liquid crystals. [1]
After postdoctoral research at the University of California, Santa Barbara, she joined the Florida State University faculty [4] before moving to her present position at UC Merced in 2008. [3]
Hirst is the author of the textbook Fundamentals of Soft Matter Science (CRC Press, 2013; 2nd ed., 2020). [5]
Hirst was the 2019 recipient of the Hilsum Medal of the British Liquid Crystal Society. [6] She was elected in 2021 as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), after a nomination from the APS Division of Soft Matter, "for fundamental experimental studies of the phases and dynamics of synthetic, biological, and biologically inspired membranes and liquid crystal materials". [7]
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