Computational Interfacial Engineering

PhD studentship available on digital screening of heterogeneous crystallisation, starting Oct 2026. Applications via the CEDAR website cmac.ac.uk/cedar

Congratulations to Nisha on publishing her work on polyhydroxyalkanoates in Macromolecular Theory and Simulation: doi.org/10.1002/mats.2…

A funded PhD studentship on #sustainable #plastics @Strath_ChemEng is available to start 1st Oct 2025. The position will be filled as soon as a suitable candidate is found. See bit.ly/4idZI3x for details. UK applicants are fully funded.

Congrats to Nisha for submitting her first paper presenting a force field for polyhydroxyalkanoates.

Congratulations to Samira on her PhD graduation!@Strath_ChemEng

PhD studentship "Multiscale modelling and optimisation of renewable plastic films" open for applications: bit.ly/PhD2025-1! Fully funded for UK students. #PhD #sustainable #plastics

Excited to be part of the Global Center for Sustainable Bioproducts as part of the @Strath_ChemEng team! ukri.org/news/meet-the-…

Our latest article is out now doi.org/10.1016/j.vibs… which presents a full breakdown of the vibrational frequencies of the glycine zwitterion in aqueous solution.

Our paper on glycine vibrational frequencies is now available online sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Check out our new group webpage: karenjohnston76.wixsite.com/enginterface

Congratulations to Samira who successfully defended her PhD today! Thanks to Prof Jerry Heng, Imperial College London, for coming to Glasgow as external examiner.

OMG, this is killing me 😂😂😂

Congratulations to Magda who successfully defended her PhD today! Thanks to James Elliott for coming to Glasgow as external examiner.

Welcome to Mae Macleod, who has joined our group as a PhD student and will be studying heterogeneous nucleation.

Congratulations to Samira and Magda who each submitted their PhD thesis last week!

See Nisha's presentation about our SSPP project ukcpn.co.uk/case-studies/s… @innovateuk @NERCscience #sustainable #plastics

Our paper on the effect of plasticisers on polymer crystallisation now available open access in Polymer: doi.org/10.1016/j.poly…

Samira's work on assessing various urea force fields is now available open access in @CGD_ACS pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ac… Well done Samira! @Strath_ChemEng

Congratulations to Samira who had a paper accepted in Crystal Growth and Design @CGD_ACS! The work tested various OPLS and GAFF based force fields for urea in crystal and solution phases. @Strath_ChemEng

Well done to Mark and Mozhdeh, who submitted a joint experimental and computational paper on glycine zwitterion vibrational modes.