Dominic Wadkin-Snaith

I have a PhD in theoretical condensed matter physics from university of Birmingham (2012). I then gained 13 years experience in materials science research specialising in polymers.

Starting out I worked as a research scientist for Solvay's aerospace advanced materials where I focussed on developing physics based as well as computational models to predict important properties of relevant polymers, inter alia, glass transition temperatures, solubility of thermoplastic polymers in pre-cursor resin formulations, prediction of spinodal phase separation morphologies. During this time I gained laboratory experience with DMTA, DSC, INSTRON and rheology to validate various aspects of the models I developed as well as to take new research avenues.

In late 2020 I took a research position at the University of Strathclyde to computationally model crystallisation in polymer thin films. I developed novel coarse grained models to capture the nucleation of crystals in films at a surface as well bespoke python scripts to perform analysis.

In 2024 I joined Lucideon to lead their Data Science and Computational Modelling team. Here we specialise in coupled physics simulations of kilns, mechanical testing and extrusion. As well developing AI approach to part dilatometry (computer vision).