Career

• 2002-present:  Emeritus Professor of Mathematical Physics
• 2002-2003: Blaise Pascal Professor, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris
• 2000-2004: President, International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
• 1961-1976 and 1980-present: Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
• 1980-2002: Professor of Mathematical Physics (1978)
• 1996-2001: Director, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences
• 1992-1999: Professeur en temps partiel, Ecole Polytechnique, Palaiseau
• 1983-1991: Head of DAMTP
• 1977-1980: Professor of Applied Mathematics, Bristol University
• 1966-1983: Editor, J.Fluid Mech.
• 1961-1976: Assistant Lecturer, then (from 1964) Lecturer, DAMTP
  
   

Research

Keith is a member of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. His  research interests are Dynamo Theory, Vortex Dynamics, Turbulence, and all aspects of Fluid Dynamics 

Curriculum Vitae

Selected Publications

• see my website for complete list of publications up to 2014
• 1964  Viscous and resistive eddies near a sharp corner. J.Fluid Mech. 18, 1-18.
• 1969 The degree of knottedness of tangled vortex lines, J.Fluid Mech. 35, 117-129
• 1978 Magnetic Field Generation in Electrically Conducting Fluids (CUP).
• 1985 Magnetostatic equilibria and analogous Euler flows of arbitrarily complex topology, J.Fluid Mech.159, 359-378
• 2010 Goldstein, R.E., Moffatt, H.K., Pesci, A.I. & Ricca, R.L. Soap-film Möbius strip changes topology with a twist singularity. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci.107,  21979-21984.
• 2010 Environmental Hazards: Fluid Dynamics of Extreme Events (Eds: H.K.Moffatt & E.Shuckburgh)
• 2012 Homogeneous turbulence: an introductory review. J. of Turbulence, 13:1, N39
• 2013 Bajer, K. & Moffatt, H.K. Magnetic relaxation, current sheets, and structure formation in an extremely tenuous fluid medium. Astrophys. J. 779, 169-183.
• 2014 Helicity and singular structures in fluid dynamics. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 111, 3663-3670.
• 2014 Kimura, Y. & Moffatt, H.K. Reconnection of skewed vortices. J.Fluid Mech. 751, 329-345.
• 2014 The fluid dynamics of James Clerk Maxwell.  In: James Clerk Maxwell: Perspectives on his Life and Work. Eds: R. Flood, M. McCartney & A.Whitaker (Oxford Univ.Press).

A full list of publications can be found here