Member of CORE Academy
Jonathan Coleman
Division of Natural Sciences
  • Materials Science; Nanotechnology
  • COLEMAJ@tcd.ie

Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy and Head of School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin; Principal Investigator in the AMBER Research Centre, Trinity College Dublin; Member of the Academia Europaea; Member of the Royal Irish Academy; Member of the European Academy of Sciences; Fellow of the Royal Society

Information

Membership Number: FCA2124

Membership Type: Fellowship

Division: Natural Sciences

Corresponding Email: COLEMAJ@tcd.ie

Homepage(s): https://www.tcd.ie/physics/research/groups/chemical-physics-of-low-dimensional-nanostructures/our-people/coleman/

https://www.orcid.org/0000-0001-9659-9721

 

Present and Previous Positions

Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy and Head of School of Physics, Trinity College Dublin

Principal Investigator in the AMBER Research Centre, Trinity College Dublin


2022   Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy, TCD

2011   Chair of Chemical Physics, Trinity College Dublin

2007   Associate Professor in Physics, Trinity College Dublin

2006   Senior Lecturer in Physics, Principal Investigator in CRANN Research Institute TCD

2005   Elected to Fellowship of Trinity College Dublin

2001   Lecturer in Physics, Trinity College Dublin 


Fields of Scholarship and Research Interests

Prof Coleman’s area of interest is in solution processing of nano-materials, predominantly carbon nanotubes, nanowires and 2D nanosheets such as graphene. He is most well-known for developing Liquid Phase Exfoliation, a versatile and widely used method for preparing 2D materials. These solution processing methods allow the formation of dispersions, suspensions and solutions of nanostructures and facilitate the production of coatings, thin films and composites. Coleman works on applying these materials and methods in a number of areas including electro-mechanical sensors, printed electronics and energy storage materials. Prof Coleman has been involved in a number of industry-academic collaborative projects with companies including Hewlett-Packard, Intel, SAB Miller, Nokia-Bell Labs and Thomas Swan.

 

Honors, Awards and Other Membership

Membership

2025    Fellow of the Royal Society (UK)

2023    Member of the Academia Europaea (MAE)

2022    Member of the European Academy of Sciences (EURASC)

2015    Member of the Royal Irish Academy (MRIA)

2005    Fellow of the Institute of Physics (FInstP)


Grants & Awards

2023    Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal in the Physical and Mathematical Sciences

2022    Tabor Medal, Institute of Physics

2022    Inducted into Advanced Materials Hall of Fame

2019      TUBALL Award 2019 (awarded annually by OCSiAl Company for best application of nanotubes) 2019  Ranked at 1690 among all 7 million research scientists worldwide.

2018     ACS Nano Award Lecture, American Chemical Society 

2016     The License to Market Award, Enterprise Ireland

2014-2024, Clarivate (Thompson Reuters) lists of highly cited researchers.

2012    Kroll Medal, Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining

2011     Researcher of the Year, Science Foundation Ireland 

2011    Named among the top 100 Materials Scientists by Thomson Reuters.


Selected Publications

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8PCLjvYAAAAJ&hl=en 

He has published >350 papers in journals including Nature and Science and has been cited >100,000 times. He was recently listed by Thomson Reuters among the world’s top 100 materials scientists and has collaborated with many companies including Hewlett-Packard, Intel, SAB Miller, Nokia-Bell Labs and Thomas Swan.

 

Other Information

JC CV 2024.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Coleman_(physicist)

https://royalsociety.org/people/jonathan-coleman-37469/