Mark Welland

Mark Welland
Born (1955-10-18) 18 October 1955 (age 69)
Alma mater
SpouseEsme Lynora Otun
ChildrenFour
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisA study of grain boundaries in copper and copper-bismuth alloy (1984)
39th Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge
In office
1 October 2016 – 1 October 2023
Preceded byDame Jean Thomas
Succeeded bySir John Benger
Websiteeng.cam.ac.uk/profiles/mew10

Sir Mark Edward Welland, FRS, FREng (born 18 October 1955) is a British physicist who is a professor of nanotechnology at the University of Cambridge and head of the Nanoscience Centre. He has been a fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, since 1986 and started his career in nanotechnology at IBM Research, where he was part of the team that developed one of the first scanning tunnelling microscopes.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9] He was served as the Master of St Catharine's College, Cambridge and took up office from 2016 to 2023.[10]

  1. ^ Porter, A. E.; Gass, M.; Muller, K.; Skepper, J. N.; Midgley, P. A.; Welland, M. (2007). "Direct imaging of single-walled carbon nanotubes in cells". Nature Nanotechnology. 2 (11): 713–7. Bibcode:2007NatNa...2..713P. doi:10.1038/nnano.2007.347. PMID 18654411.
  2. ^ Knowles, T. P.; Fitzpatrick, A. W.; Meehan, S.; Mott, H. R.; Vendruscolo, M.; Dobson, C. M.; Welland, M. E. (2007). "Role of Intermolecular Forces in Defining Material Properties of Protein Nanofibrils". Science. 318 (5858): 1900–3. Bibcode:2007Sci...318.1900K. doi:10.1126/science.1150057. PMID 18096801. S2CID 32892463.
  3. ^ Smith, J. F.; Knowles, T. P. J.; Dobson, C. M.; MacPhee, C. E.; Welland, M. E. (2006). "Characterization of the nanoscale properties of individual amyloid fibrils". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 103 (43): 15806–11. Bibcode:2006PNAS..10315806S. doi:10.1073/pnas.0604035103. PMC 1635084. PMID 17038504.
  4. ^ Shu, W.; Liu, D.; Watari, M.; Riener, C. K.; Strunz, T.; Welland, M. E.; Balasubramanian, S.; McKendry, R. A. (2005). "DNA Molecular Motor Driven Micromechanical Cantilever Arrays". Journal of the American Chemical Society. 127 (48): 17054–60. doi:10.1021/ja0554514. PMID 16316252.
  5. ^ Knowles, T. P.; Waudby, C. A.; Devlin, G. L.; Cohen, S. I.; Aguzzi, A; Vendruscolo, M; Terentjev, E. M.; Welland, M. E.; Dobson, C. M. (2009). "An analytical solution to the kinetics of breakable filament assembly". Science. 326 (5959): 1533–7. Bibcode:2009Sci...326.1533K. doi:10.1126/science.1178250. PMID 20007899. S2CID 6267152.
  6. ^ Mark Welland's publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  7. ^ Cowburn, R. P.; Koltsov, D. K.; Adeyeye, A. O.; Welland, M. E. (1999). "Single-Domain Circular Nanomagnets". Physical Review Letters. 83 (5): 1042. Bibcode:1999PhRvL..83.1042C. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.1042.
  8. ^ Cowburn, R. P. (2000). "Room Temperature Magnetic Quantum Cellular Automata". Science. 287 (5457): 1466–1468. Bibcode:2000Sci...287.1466C. doi:10.1126/science.287.5457.1466. PMID 10688790.
  9. ^ Barnes, J. R.; Stephenson, R. J.; Welland, M. E.; Gerber, C.; Gimzewski, J. K. (1994). "Photothermal spectroscopy with femtojoule sensitivity using a micromechanical device". Nature. 372 (6501): 79. Bibcode:1994Natur.372...79B. doi:10.1038/372079a0. S2CID 4326428.
  10. ^ "The next Master of St Catharine's | St Catharine's College, Cambridge".