Ewan Cruickshank (0000-0002-4670-8405)

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Dr Ewan Cruickshank is a Lecturer in the School of Pharmacy, Applied Sciences and Public Health. Prior to joining RGU in 2023, he was a research fellow at the University of Aberdeen where he worked on the EPSRC funded New Horizons project: Ferroelectricity and the Nematic Liquid Crystal Phase. He also studied both his PhD and undergraduate degree at the University of Aberdeen. In 2016 he completed his undergraduate studies having achieved 1st class honours in the MChem course. Following this, his PhD thesis titled: Synthesis and Characterisation of Novel Thioether-Based Liquid Crystals and the Twist-Bend Nematic Phase was sustained in 2021 and this generated his interest in the field of liquid crystals. His first-author paper entitled: “Sulfur-linked cyanobiphenyl-based liquid crystal dimers and the twist-bend nematic phase” was awarded the Luckhurst-Samulski Prize in 2019 for the best paper that year in the journal Liquid Crystals, in 2022 he was invited to present his work at the Rank Prize Symposium for Liquid Crystal Technology for Light and in 2024 he was awarded the BLCS Young Scientist Prize.

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Robert Gordon University: Aberdeen, GB

2023-08-01 to present | Lecturer (School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences)

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Robert Gordon University: Aberdeen, GB

University of Aberdeen: Aberdeen, Aberdeen, GB

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University of Aberdeen: Aberdeen, Aberdeen, GB

University of Aberdeen: Aberdeen, Aberdeen, GB

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Royal Society of Chemistry: Cambridge, GB

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Sulfur-linked cyanoterphenyl-based liquid crystal dimers and the twist-bend nematic phase

The role of fluorine substituents in the formation of the ferroelectric nematic phase

Heliconical nematic and smectic phases: the synthesis and characterisation of the CB4O. m and CB8O. m series

Cyanobiphenyl-based liquid crystal dimers and the twist-bend nematic phase: on the role played by the length and parity of the spacer

The Emergence of a Polar Nematic Phase: A Chemist's Insight into the Ferroelectric Nematic Phase

A design approach to obtaining highly polar liquid crystal dimers

Rapid conformational analysis of semi-flexible liquid crystals

The influence of molecular shape and electronic properties on the formation of the ferroelectric nematic phase

Ferroelectric nematogens containing a methylthio group

The effects of alkylthio chains on the properties of symmetric liquid crystal dimers

The influence of the imine bond direction on the phase behaviour of symmetric and non-symmetric liquid crystal dimers

To Be or Not To Be Polar: The Ferroelectric and Antiferroelectric Nematic Phases

The ferroelectric nematic phase: on the role of lateral alkyloxy chains

Ferroelectric Nematic-Isotropic Liquid Critical End Point

Molecular Shape, Electronic Factors and the Ferroelectric Nematic Phase

The effect of a lateral alkyloxy chain on the ferroelectric nematic phase

Intrinsically chiral ferronematic liquid crystals: An inversion of the helical twist sense at the chiral nematic – Chiral ferronematic phase transition

Helical phases assembled from achiral molecules: Twist-bend nematic and helical filamentary B4 phases formed by mesogenic dimers

Multiple Polar and Non‐polar Nematic Phases

Photonic Bandgap in Achiral Liquid Crystals—A Twist on a Twist

Chalcogen bonding and liquid crystallinity: understanding the anomalous behaviour of the 4'-(alkylthio)[1,1'-biphenyl]-4-carbonitriles (nSCB)

Liquid crystal dimers and the twist-bend nematic phase: On the role of spacers and terminal alkyl chains

Temperature dependence of bend elastic constant in oblique helicoidal cholesterics

Sulfur-linked cyanobiphenyl-based liquid crystal dimers and the twist-bend nematic phase

Peer review (4 reviews for 3 publications/grants)