You can hear Professor Tiddy lecture at NanoFormulation2013 in Manchester or FormulaVII in Mulhouse.
The French Chemical Society and its Formulation Group have announced the awarding of the first “Formula Pierre Fillet” Prize to Professor Gordon Tiddy.
On the occasion of the 7th Formula Conference in Mulhouse in July, the French Chemical Society (SCF) and its Formulation Group decided to create a special prize named “Formula – Pierre Fillet”. Pierre Fillet was a major force behind formulation in France particularly and across Europe, he was one of instigators of the first Formula conference in 1986. This first prize is jointly funded by SCF and Formulation Group. The prize is awarded to a well-recognized researcher whose work led to significant developments in formulation (any topic). The winner was selected by all the partner groups sponsoring Formula VII. The award ceremony will take place during Formula VII in Mulhouse in July.
Gordon spent 29 years working for Unilever where he developed and applied a unique understanding of surfactant phase behaviour particularly with respect to liquid crystal related structures. While Gordon was with Unilever many new products were commercialised based on the scientific underpinning which he provided, enabling novel product forms to be created.
In 1996 Gordon left Unilever and took up the chair of Formulation Engineering within the School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Sciences at The University of Manchester. Here Gordon has continued to expand the boundaries of our understanding of surfactant mesophases. The new understanding of the phase behaviour of nonionic surfactants in particular has allowed formulators to replace cationic surfactants in many formulations with more benign nonionics, where formulation is only made possible by knowing how to control the formation of gel, sub-gel, metastable gel and smetic liquid crystaline phases. More recently Gordon has been studying systems of greater complexity such as chromonic liquid crystals, an understanding of which is essential in the processing of many dyes and pharmaceutical actives, and microemulsions, where studies of structural changes during processing have elucidated the effect of components within complex formulations
Gordon has been active in the international formulation area being active in the internationalisation of the Formula series of conferences, bringing Formula IV to London in 2005, as well as encouraging the FSTG to form strong links with the US formulation community.
Professor Tiddy’s personal page on The University of Manchester’s website – http://www.manchester.ac.uk/research/gordon.tiddy/
