Professor Roger
Horn is the Deputy Director of the Ian Wark Research Institute,
University of South Australia. He did his PhD in Cambridge and a
post-doctoral fellowship in Paris, studying the physics of thermotropic
liquid crystals. He then spent several years at the Australian
National University in Canberra as a Research Fellow and Queen
Elizabeth II Fellow, working with Jacob Israelachvili on some of the
pioneering experiments with the Surface Force Apparatus. After five
years at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology
(Gaithersburg, Maryland), he returned to Australia in 1992 to take up
the position of Professor of Materials Science at the University of
South Australia. Roger is recognized internationally for his innovative
experiments on surface force measurements, with more than 2000
citations to his 45 journal publications.