Cécile Dreiss is a Reader in Soft Matter. Her research focuses on understanding and exploiting self-assembly in colloidal, polymeric and biological systems by establishing relationships between properties on the macro-scale (e.g. rheological behaviour) and the morphology on the nanoscale. She uses neutron scattering techniques extensively as well as rheology.

Areas of interest and current projects include: thermoresponsive hydrogels; emulgels; cyclodextrin-mediated self-assembly; Pickering emulsions; polysaccharides and dietary fibres; bile salts and interfacial processes in lipid digestion; plasmonic nanoparticles.

Cécile is strongly committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace and has held various positions in this area, such as School Lead for Diversity & Inclusion, and Faculty co-lead on the College Attainment workstream, which aims to address structural barriers to equal attainment in education. She is currently the Senior Tutor for the MPharm programme.

hydrogels; self-assembly; surfactants; thermoresponsive polymers; polysaccharides; food hydrocolloids; emulsions; emulgels

Cécile graduated in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering from ENSIC (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Industries Chimiques, France). She obtained her PhD from Imperial College (2003), after which she took up a 2-year postdoc position at the University of Bristol in the School of Chemistry. She has been an academic at King's College London since 2005.