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 Biography

A/Prof Jason Stokes' research aims to understand how the structure of food influences its flow behaviour, mouthfeel and flavour, as well as stability. This is important in the design and manufacture of food and other consumer products so that they have superior nutritional and functional properties. He is an expert in understanding how soft materials deform and flow (rheology) and the lubrication of fluids between deformable substrates (soft-tribology).

A/Prof Jason R Stokes received his PhD at the Department of Chemical Engineering of The University of Melbourne, Australia, in 1998 on the subject of viscoelastic fluid flow under the guidance of Professor David V. Boger. He joined Unilever Research at Colworth House in the United Kingdom in 1999, where he has sought to develop an understanding on the relationship between microstructure, processing and rheology for a range of soft matter systems found in consumer products, as well as their dynamics in thin films and lubrication processes relevant to in-use/in-mouth behaviour. He joined the University of Queensland School of Engineering (Division of Chemical Engineering) in October 2008.

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