Valerie Pinfield studied Natural Sciences (theoretical physics) at the University of Cambridge, graduating in 1990 (MA, 1994). She worked for two years at The Welding Institute on electron beam welding, before joining the University of Leeds Food Science Department where she completed her PhD in 1996. Her research programme related to computational modelling of emulsion instability and ultrasonic propagation in scattering systems.
Having worked for nearly three years in research and development in the confectionery industry, Valerie returned to academia as a post-doctoral researcher, on a part-time basis, at Leeds University (Food Science Department) and subsequently at the University of Nottingham (Electrical Systems and Optics Division, Faculty of Engineering). She took up her post as Lecturer at Loughborough University in September 2012 and became a Senior Lecturer in 2015 and Reader in Applied Ultrasonics in 2017 becoming a Fellow of the Institute of Physics in the same year. She served as Head of Department of Chemical Engineering from August 2017 to July 2020.
She led the EPSRC-funded research project on ultrasonic characterisation of aggregated particle suspensions in collaboration with the Universities of Leeds and Manchester. The project encompassed theoretical, computational, and experimental investigations of ultrasound propagation.
Her interests include acoustic scattering and acoustofluidics, colloidal and nanoparticle materials, and metamaterials for acoustic applications.
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