Chris Lorenz
Professor of Physics
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Member of Biological Physics & Soft Matter Group as well as the Theory & Simulation of Condensed Matter Group
Biography
Chris Lorenz received a combined BS/MS in chemical engineering at the University of Michigan in 1997. Chris continued on to earn his PhD in chemical engineering in 2001 at the University of Michigan, under the supervision of Prof. Robert Ziff, with whom he investigated ‘Chemical Engineering Applications of Percolation Theory.’
In 2001, Chris moved to Albuquerque, NM to work as a postdoc in Multi-scale Materials and Molecular Biology Simulations group at Sandia National Laboratories with Gary Grest, Mark Stevens and Michael Chandross. In Dec. 2005, Chris moved to Ames, IA where he worked as a research fellow in the Physics Department of Iowa State University and Ames National Laboratory with Prof. Alex Travesset. Chris was appointed as a lecturer in the Department of Engineering at King’s College London in May 2007. He then joined the Department of Physics in January 2011.
Publications
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Teaching
I am currently teaching the following modules:
Bio- and Nanomaterials in the Virtual Lab: A Master’s level module in which we discuss and practice various simulation methods used to simulate the behaviour of bio- and nanomaterials.