Meet The Team
Professor David Haddleton
Professor David Haddleton has over 30 years experience of industrial and academic polymer chemistry experience with over 400 academic papers and over 20 patent families. Professor Haddleton has extensive collaborations with industry including Unilever, Lubrizol, Syngenta, BASF, Merck, Astra Zeneca and SMEs including Medherant. There is experience in all polymer types and we aim to offer you solutions to your problems and add value by helping you understand your polymers and offer the right material for your needs. We offer short term and long term contracts to give you the flexibility required and extra effort when needed.
David is also Director of the Polymer Characterisation RTP
Dr Dan Lester
Dan has been at Warwick 9 years managing the Polymer RTP, a core facility dedicated to polymer and materials synthesis and analysis. Dan is an expert in a number of techniques, with special emphasis on Gel Permeation Chromatography., which he regularly teaches and delivers external courses on. In 2022 Dan obtained his first PhD student in collaboration with Astra-Zeneca (https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/as/people/2021/owentooley/).
Prior to taking his current role as Manager of the Polymer Characterisation RTP, Dan obtained a PhD in physical inorganic chemistry at Sussex.
Dr James Town
James is senior research technician for the facility, with particular specialties in thermal analysis, rheology and mass spectrometry. Prior to this role James completed his MPhys at Nottingham Trent University followed by a PhD in MALDI-ToF-MS for improved molecular weight determination, and MALDI-LID-ToF/ToF-MS for sequencing co-polymers and determining their nature in the Haddleton Group.
Dr Arkadios Marathianos
Arkadios is a senior research technician in the facility and has lots of experience in all forms of synthetic polymer chemistry and polymer analysis. As well as our synthetic expert, Arkadios also provides our NMR expertise. He graduated from the University of Athens in 2014, focusing on Polymer Chemistry under the supervision of Professor Marinos Pitsikalis. In 2016, he received his Research Master’s Degree (1st Class Honours) in Polymer Chemistry from the University of Athens. In October 2017, he started his PhD at the University of Warwick under the supervision of Professor David Haddleton working on Catalytic Chain Transfer Polymerisation and Sulphur-free RAFT.