Hazel Assender
{{short description|Materials scientist}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox scientist
| name = Hazel Assender
| birth_name = Hazel Elaine Assender
| honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CPhys|MInstP|size=100}}
| fields = Polymers
Thin film electronics
Microstructural Characterisation
Materials science
| workplaces = University of Oxford
| alma_mater = University of Cambridge (MA, PhD)
| thesis_title = Magnetically induced microstructures in liquid crystalline polymers
| thesis_year = 1994
| thesis_url= https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.321035
| doctoral_advisor =
| website = {{URL|http://www.materials.ox.ac.uk/peoplepages/assender.html}}
}}Hazel Elaine Assender {{post-nominals|country=GBR|CPhys|MInstP|size=100|commas=on}} is a professor of Materials at the Department of Materials, University of Oxford.{{Cite web|url=https://www.iop.org/sites/default/files/2019-06/2016-newsletter.pdf |website=www.iop.org|title=Selected Reports on Professional Activities of Group Members|date=2016 |access-date=2025-05-14 }}{{Cite web |title=Hazel Assender |url=https://www.materials.ox.ac.uk/peoplepages/assender.html |access-date=2022-10-06 |website=www.materials.ox.ac.uk |language=en}} She is an expert in polymer chemistry, thin film electronics and nanomaterials. Assender is a fellow of Linacre College, Oxford.{{Cite web|url=https://www.linacre.ox.ac.uk/about-linacre/staff-and-fellows/fellows|title=Fellows {{!}} Linacre College|website=www.linacre.ox.ac.uk|access-date=2018-12-27}}
Education
Assender studied the Natural Sciences Tripos at the University of Cambridge, graduating in 1990.{{Cite web|url=https://www.diversityprojects.ox.ac.uk/wis/meet/56|title=Hazel Assender — Diversity Projects|website=www.diversityprojects.ox.ac.uk|access-date=2018-12-27|archive-date=27 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181227182027/https://www.diversityprojects.ox.ac.uk/wis/meet/56|url-status=dead}} In 1990, Assender started her PhD in the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy{{citation needed|date=November 2019}} and completed her thesis on "Magnetically induced microstructures in liquid crystalline polymers" in 1994.{{Cite web|url=http://materials.ottz.com/books-0010.shtml |title=Ottz Technic - Resources for Engineers|website=materials.ottz.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181227230201/http://materials.ottz.com/books-0010.shtml|archive-date=27 December 2018}}{{Cite thesis|last=Assender|first=Hazel Elaine|title=Magnetically induced microstructures in liquid crystalline polymers|date=1994|degree=Ph.D.|publisher=University of Cambridge|id={{EThOS|uk.bl.ethos.321035}}|url=https://copac.jisc.ac.uk/id/9557306?style=html|access-date=2018-12-28|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181228130919/https://copac.jisc.ac.uk/id/9557306?style=html|archive-date=2018-12-28|url-status=dead}}
Research and career
After two years as a post doctoral researcher, in 1996 Assender moved to a lectureship in the Department of Materials at the University of Oxford{{citation needed|date=November 2019}} where she focuses on thin films and coatings of polymer materials and onto polymer substrates. During her time in Oxford, she has developed expertise in roll-to-roll{{Cite web|url=http://ukplasticelectronics.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/PE_CapabilityGuide_V1prJun12.pdf|title=Capability Guide|website=ukplasticelectronics.com|access-date=2018-12-27}} deposition, gas barriers, photovoltaics, and polymer electronics (including transistors and circuits).{{Cite web|url=http://www.materials.ox.ac.uk/peoplepages/assender.html|title=Personal Homepages Oxford Materials|website=www.materials.ox.ac.uk|access-date=2018-12-27}} Assender has worked 80% full-time since her second child was born.
In 2001 Assender co-edited the book "Aerospace Materials" with Brian Cantor and Patrick Grant.{{Cite book|title=Aerospace Materials|date=2001-08-19|publisher=CRC Press|isbn=9780750307420|editor-last=Cantor|editor-first=Brian|edition= 1st|location=Bristol|language=en|editor-last2=Assender|editor-first2=H.|editor-last3=Grant|editor-first3=P.}} She spoke at the 2015 University of Cambridge "Worshipful Company of Armourers and Brasiers Company forum", a highlight of the academic UK materials science calendar, to highlight roll-to-roll vacuum processing to create multi-layer polymer electronic thin films.{{Cite web|url=https://www.msm.cam.ac.uk/sites/default/files/uploads/mat-eyes-pdfs/Material_Eyes_Issue28_Autumn15.pdf|title=Cambridge material eyes|website=www.msm.cam.ac.uk|access-date=2018-12-27}}
Assender continues to collaborate across the UK and is currently a member of the Centre for Plastic Electronics Centre for Doctoral Training (with colleagues from Oxford, Imperial, and Queen Mary University London).{{Cite web|url=http://www.imperial.ac.uk/a-z-research/plastic-electronics/plastic-electronics-cdt/about/supervisors/|title=Supervisors|website=Imperial College London|language=en-GB|access-date=2018-12-27}} Assender's research is inspired by her desire to solve industrial challenges. Her recent work has considered wearable electronics as part of the Wearable and Flexible Technologies (WAFT) consortium with colleagues at Oxford, Southampton and Exeter Universities.{{Cite web|url=http://www.materials.ox.ac.uk/news/recentnews/news-2014.html|title=Department of Materials News 2014 Oxford Materials|website=www.materials.ox.ac.uk|access-date=2018-12-27|archive-date=28 December 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181228000911/http://www.materials.ox.ac.uk/news/recentnews/news-2014.html|url-status=dead}}
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