Hermes Gadelha 

Career

• 2007-date: Research Fellow in Mathematics, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge, UK.
• 2007-2011: DPhil in Mathematics, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, UK.
• 2005-2007: MSc in Physics (with Distinction), Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil.
• 2001-2005: BSc in Physics, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Brazil.

Research

Hermes is an early-career interdisciplinary applied mathematical physicist, specialising in biofluid aspects of human reproduction and swimming of microorganisms. He is a visiting Fellow at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Univ. of Cambridge and at the Mathematical Institute, Univ. of Oxford.

Selected Publications

• Mammalian Sperm Motility: Observation and Theory.
  E. A. Gaffney, H. Gadêlha, D. J. Smith, J. R. Blake and J. C. Kirkman-Brown
  Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics 43, 501 (2011).

• Non-linear instability in flagellar dynamics: A novel modulation mechanism in sperm migration ?
  H. Gadêlha, E. A. Gaffney, D. J. Smith and J. C. Kirkman-Brown.
  Journal of the Royal Society Interface 7, 1689 (2010).
  Manuscript featured in the journal Science: “ScienceShot: Why Sperm Swim in Circles” by Gisela Telis.

• Bend propagation in the flagella of migrating human sperm, and its modulation by viscosity.
  D. J. Smith, E. A. Gaffney, H. Gadêlha, N. Kapur and J.. C. Kirkman-Brown,
  Cell Motility and the Cytoskeleton 66, 220-236 (2009).

• Effects of normal viscous stresses on radial viscous fingering.
  H. Gadêlha and J. A. Miranda, Physical Review E 79, 066312 (2009).

• Dynamics of viscous fingers in rotating Hele-Shaw cells with Coriolis effects.
  H. Gadêlha, N. Brito and J.A. Miranda, Physical Review E 75, 016305 (2007).