Angel Martinez is an Assistant Professor in the Applied Physics and Materials Science Department at NAU. His research experience spans many kinds of soft matter systems, including polymers, colloids, and liquid crystals, having explored ways to shape and guide their structural self-organization using light and surface functionalization. He has much experience in 2D and 3D optical imaging of liquid crystals and liquid crystal colloids via techniques such as polarized optical microscopy, multi-photon nonlinear imaging and holographic particle tracking. Some of his current interests include numerical simulation of liquid crystal dynamics due to external stress, studying the rheological effects of defect networks in liquid crystals and other ordered fluids, and developing machine learning algorithms to reconstruct the complicated 3D structures in soft materials from 2D optical data.

Research interest areas:

• Soft matter physics
• Liquid crystals
• Polymers
• Colloids

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