Bernie Binks

Bernard P. Binks obtained his B.Sc. in chemistry (1983) and a Ph.D. in surface chemistry and microemulsions (1986) at the University of Hull, U.K. under the supervision of Bob Aveyard. He was awarded a Royal Society European Fellowship to study in Paris, where he worked on light scattering and ellipsometry from liquid interfaces coated with surfactant (1987) with Jacques Meunier and Dominique Langevin. After further postdoctoral years studying Langmuir monolayers on water and multilayers on solid substrates, he was appointed Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Hull in 1991. He was promoted to Professor of Physical Chemistry in 2003 and has led the Surfactant & Colloid Group at Hull since 2002. His main research interests are in the properties and behaviour of colloidal particles at fluid interfaces, including particles at planar interfaces, particle-stabilized emulsions and foams and novel materials derived from them. He has published over 400 peer-reviewed articles and 17 patents and has edited 3 research monographs. He was awarded the RSC Colloid & Interface Science Group Medal in 2004, the European Colloid and Interface Society-Rhodia Prize in 2011, the RSC Surfaces and Interfaces Award in 2014, the ACS Langmuir Lectureship in 2016, the RS/SCI Sir Eric Rideal Award in 2022, the European Colloid and Interface Society Overbeek Gold Medal in 2023 and the Division of Colloid and Surface Chemistry Lectureship Award from the Chemical Society of Japan in 2024. He was a Senior Editor of Langmuir from 2016-2022.