Potential supervisors
The following members of staff will consider admitting a new PhD student for entry October 2021:
- Dr R. Adhikari
- Dr R Bhagat
- Research focuses on interfacial flows, and turbulent stratified and buoyancy-driven flows (such as building ventilation flows), with a particular focus on airborne disease transmission, and sustainability
- Professor N. G. Berloff
- Research interests in quantum fluids, unconventional computing, Bose-Einstein condensation
- Dr M. Bruna
- Research interests in multiscale modelling of interacting particle systems, diffusion and kinetic PDEs, asymptotic methods, homogenisation of porous media, collective animal behaviour, stochastic agent-based simulation algorithms, mathematical biology and industrial mathematics
- Professor M. E. Cates
- Research interests in soft condensed matter, statistical physics, active matter, statistical field theory and non-Newtonian fluid mechanics
- Professor C. P. Caulfield
- Dr S. J. Cowley
- Professor S. B. Dalziel
- Professor R. E. Goldstein
- Professor P. H. Haynes
- Dr R. L. Jack
- Professor R. R. Kerswell
- Research interests in high-Reynolds number fluid mechanics (hydrodynamic stability, transition and turbulence), rotating and stratified flows with applications to oceans, atmospheres, planetary motion and accretion disks, visco-elastic flows, Machine Learning and optimization/variational methods in fluid mechanics
- Professor E. Lauga
- Research interests in biological fluid mechanics, applications of Machine Learning and optimisation to fluid mechanics, complex fluids, non-Newtonian fluid mechanics, biological physics, viscous flows and mathematical biology
- Professor J. R. Lister
- Dr J. A. Neufeld
- Research interests in subglacial hydrology and glacial geomorphology, magma ocean solidification, solidification driven dynamos in planetesimals, geological carbon storage, visco-elastic tectonics, experimental fluid mechanics and impact cratering
- Professor N. Peake
- Professor B. Simons
- Dr J. R. Taylor
- Research interests in fluid dynamics of oceanography including ocean turbulence and mixing, frontal dynamics, ice sheet/ocean interactions, and the influence of physics on biology and pollutants
- Professor M. G. Worster
- Research interests in glacial dynamics and sea ice, solidification of solutions and colloidal suspensions, flows through hydrogels