Dr Patrick Kiley

I am interested in how biological systems are able to tune material properties through precise control of nanoscale morphology.  My research in this area focuses on full-length collagen and collagen mimetic systems.  I use DFT and highly parallelised atomistic modelling to understand the atomistic details of these systems.  In addition, I use nanoscale material characterisation methods, including vibrational spectroscopy and WAXS/SAXS.