Education

• BA Natural Sciences, Physics, Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
• PhD Theoretical Physics, Cambridge University.

I am a Reader (Associate Professor) in the Applied Section of the
Department of Mathematics at Bristol. My research primarily
involves theoretical descriptions of complex fluids
(membranes,polymers, gels, ...). I am increasingly interested in
the study of "soft biological matter" (DNA, proteins, the
cytoskeleton, gene regulation, ...), and the organising principles
behind this highly interesting active (living) state of matter. My
approach to these problems is always from the angle (point of
view) of a condensed matter physicist (or statistical mechanic).

Selected Publications

• "Rheology of Active Filament Solutions", T. B. Liverpool and M. C. Marchetti, Physical Review Letters, 97, 268101 (2006).
• "Active gels: where polymer physics meets cytoskeletal
  dynamics"
  , T. B. Liverpool, Phil. Trans. Roy. Soc. A, 364, 3335-3355 (2006).
• "Inertial effects in the response of viscous and viscoelastic
  fluids", T.B.Liverpool and F.C. MacKintosh, Physical Review Letters, 95, 208303 (2005).
• "The dynamics of inextensible semiflexible filaments", T.B. Liverpool, Physical Review E, 72, 021805 (2005).
• "Propulsion of a molecular machine by asymmetric
  distribution of reaction-products", R. Golestanian, T.B. Liverpool and A. Ajdari, Physical Review Letters 94, 220801 (2005)
• "Multivalent ion driven condensation of DNA-actin
  polyelectrolyte mixtures", O.V. Zribi, H. Kyung, .R Golestanian, T.B. Liverpool and G.C.L. Wong, Europhysics Letters, 70 (4), pp. 541-547 (2005).