Degrees:
MSc in Physics (Tel Aviv University), PhD in Physics (Tel Aviv University)

Research interests:
Rafi Blumenfeld is a College lecturer and Bye-Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Research interests include: Theoretical Physics. Works on soft matter; granular, polymers, colloids and magnetic systems; inhomogeneous and porous structures; nonlinear transport phenomena; dynamics of curves and ribbons. (For further details see my personal site, linked below)

Personal Web page: http://rafi.blumenfeld.co.uk

Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and also Royal Society Research Professor.
Professor Cates is a member of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. He heads the Soft Matter research group

Research Interests:
Flow of colloids, polymers, emulsions, gels and other soft materials; shear-thickening and rheology in dense suspensions; dynamics of soft glasses; flow of liquid crystals; general theories of active matter; cellular locomotion; phase ordering in active and passive systems; statistical mechanics of active particles; and numerous other topics.

He currently holds an ERC Advanced Grant called ADNeSP: Active and Driven Systems, Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics.

Personal Webpage: http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/people/mec22/ 

Professor of Soft Matter at Leeds. International Foundatin Year Co-ordinator and Bulletin Editor of British Society of Rheology.
Daniel is part of the Complex Materials and Industrial Mathematics Group and is the Leeds Local Director in the Centre for Doctoral Training in Soft Matter for Formulation and Industrial Innovation

Research Interests:
Theoretical polymer physics, rheology and coarse grained modelling of biological molecules. Links between molecular structure, molecular dynamics, flow properties, and reaction chemistry of polymer materials. Understanding this often involves large multidisciplinary teams, including mathematicians, physicists, chemists and engineers.

Personal Webpage: https://eps.leeds.ac.uk/maths/staff/4074/professor-daniel-read

Professor Mark Warner is one of the founders of the field of liquid crystalline solids, which has yielded many exotic phenomena that are now confirmed experimentally. For this work he received a Maxwell Medal and Prize and a von Humboldt Research Prize. In 2003 Prof Warner was awarded the Agilent Technology Europhysics Prize by the European Physical Society. He is an honorary fellow of the Royal Society of New Zealand and a Fellow of the Royal Society, London. Mark is also part of the Theory of Condensed Matter Group.

Research Interests:
Liquid Crystalline solids, and the application of geometry to exploit their thermal and optical response - for instance in light induced metric changes.

Personal Webpage: http://www.tcm.phy.cam.ac.uk/~mw141/