Guest Researcher at LINXS between May and June 2024, LINXS Fellow.

Jitendra Mata, principal instrument scientist at ANSTO, Australia, and adjunct associate professor at the School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales, Australia.

Assoc. Prof. Jitendra Mata is a principal instrument scientist for the Kookaburra an Ultra Small Angle Neutron Scattering (USANS) instrument (since March 2017) and an instrument associate for the Quokka a Small Angle Neutron Scattering (SANS) instrument (since July 2018) at Australian Centre for Neutron Scattering (ACNS), Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Oranisation (ANSTO), Australia. He also holds adjunct associate professor position with School of Chemistry, University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia since August 2023. Dr Mata has been at ANSTO for > 14 years; working as an instrument scientist for the Quokka for 4 years, a research leader at ANSTO Minerals for 3 years, and as a postdoctoral research fellow at the ACNS for 2 years. He also worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at The Australian National University with Prof. John White for 3 years.

Dr Mata’s research concerns complex soft materials and has had industrial relevance since his PhD. He has investigated several areas of soft condensed matter science, such as surfactant and block copolymer solutions, emulsions, food proteins, hydrogels, and minerals. Dr Mata has co-authored more than 125 peer reviewed articles including 2 book chapters: all in high impact international journals. He has also published several scientific reports.