Dr Tom Whale

Profile

Tom Whale is a lecturer in the Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science. His research focusses on understanding nucleation of ice from supercooled water. He completed an MChem in Chemistry at the University of Durham from 2007-2011 supervised by Dr Christoph Salzmann. before to the group of Dr Ben Murray at the University of Leeds for my PhD, graduating in 2016 with a thesis entitled ‘Ice nucleation by feldspars and carbon nanomaterials’.

He then undertook postdoctoral research in the Murray group looking at controlling ice nucleation in cryobiological systems. In 2018 he moved to the group of Professor Fiona Meldrum at Leeds to work on heterogeneous nucleation of inorganic crystals.He then won a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship (2019-2023) at the University of Warwick working before returning to Leeds.

Research interests

I have broad interests relating to experimental and theoretical aspects of understanding ice nucleation and growth and of crystallisation more broadly. I also conduct research into applied areas including atmospheric ice formation and problems in cryobiology.

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Qualifications

• MChem (Durham) 2011
• PhD (Leeds) 2016

Professional memberships

• Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry
• Member of the Aerosol Society
• Treasurer of the Society for Low Temperature Biology
• Member of the British Association for Crystal Growth

Student education

I currently teach on Environmental Measurements and Engaging with Climate Change: Capstone Project.

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