Dr. John Dutcher is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Soft Matter Physics in the Department of Physics at the University of Guelph. He also serves as Director of the Centre for Food and Soft Materials Science at the University of Guelph, and as Theme Leader for the Advanced Foods and Materials Network, a Canadian Network of Centres of Excellence. Dr. Dutcher's research focuses on the physics of polymers, biopolymers and bacteria at surfaces and in thin films. He is the recipient of an Ontario Premier's Research Excellence Award, and is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He is the author of over 80 papers cited about 1800 times, three book chapters, co-editor of a book entitled Soft Materials: Structure and Dynamics and Guest Editor of a special issue of the Journal of Polymer Science, Part B: Polymer Physics entitled "Dynamics of Confined Polymers". Dr. Dutcher has been invited to speak about his research at a large number of international scientific meetings and research institutions. He serves on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Polymer Science: Polymer Physics, and on the Editorial Board of Soft Matter, a Royal Society of Chemistry journal. He has a broad network of collaborators from different disciplines, including chemists, microbiologists, materials scientists and food scientists. He is currently supervising and co-supervising eight PDFs and Research Associates, eight graduate students and two undergraduate students.
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