Klaas Wynne (also Wijnne; born 1964) is a professor in the School of Chemistry at the
University of Glasgow and chair of
Chemical Physics. He was previously a professor in the Department of Physics at the
University of Strathclyde (1996–2010).
Education
He received his BSc in chemistry from the
University of Amsterdam in 1987 and his PhD in chemistry from the
University of Amsterdam in 1990 under the supervision of Joop van Voorst. He did his postdoctoral fellowship in the laboratory of
Robin Hochstrasser at the
University of Pennsylvania.
Research
Wynne has authored over 90 published scientific papers. His work is focused on the structure and dynamics of liquids and solutions as well as peptides,
proteins, and other biomolecules treated as amorphous objects behaving much like liquids. He described the Mayonnaise Effect, which explains the anomalous increase of the viscosity of solutions with concentration in terms of a
jamming transition. He is particularly interested in phase behaviour such as "supercooling of liquids, folding transitions in peptides,
phase separation and nucleation using laser-tweezing, nucleation of crystals from solution", and liquid-liquid and liquid-crystalline transitions. These phenomena are studied using femtosecond spectroscopies such as ultrafast optical Kerr-effect spectroscopy, time-domain terahertz spectroscopy (THz-TDS) as well as optical microscopy and various other forms of spectroscopy.
Awards and honours
* Chemical Dynamics Award of the
Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC), 2018.
* Associate Editor
Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS), 2017–2020.
* Elected Fellow of the
Royal Society of Edinburgh
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(FRSE), 2015.
* Member of
Faraday Division Council, 2013–2016.
* Member of the editorial advisory board of the
Journal of Physical Chemistry, 2012–2015.
* Visiting professor in the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering,
University of Strathclyde, 2012–2014.
* Member of the board of Chemical Physics (Elsevier), 2012-
*
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, 2006.
*
Fellow of the Institute of Physics
Fellowship of the Institute of Physics (FInstP) is "the highest level of membership attainable" by physicists who are members of the Institute of Physics (IoP), "for those with a degree in physics or related subject (or equivalent knowledge gained ...
, 2005.
*
NATO research fellowship, 1991.
References
External links
Chemical Photonics , Wynne labUltrafast Chemical Physics in the city of GlasgowThe Biomolecular spectroscopy & dynamics Cluster (BioC)*
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1964 births
Living people
Academics of the University of Glasgow
Scottish chemists
Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Fellows of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Fellows of the Institute of Physics
21st-century British chemists
21st-century Scottish scientists
Physical chemists
Scientists from Amsterdam
21st-century Dutch chemists
University of Amsterdam alumni