Daisuke Takagi

• 2010-present Assistant Research Scientist at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University
• 2007-2010 Gates Cambridge Scholar at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics (DAMTP) and King's College, University of Cambridge
• 2007-2010 Member of the Environmental and Industrial Fluid Dynamics Group, DAMTP
• 2006-2010 Member of the Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, DAMTP

I defended my PhD thesis in August 2010 and moved to New York City. My new homepage is available here.

Research

My research is motivated by a range of applications of fluid dynamics.

• Geophysics: Predicting lava flows on volcanoes, rockfalls, snow avalanches
• Engineering: Coating thin films on substrates, manufacturing glass
• Biology: Understanding peristaltic transport of a swallowed bolus
• Lifestyle: Emptying bottles of salad dressing, squeezing tubes of toothpaste

I use mathematics and conduct laboratory experiments to obtain equations, which describe the motion of flowing materials in different situations.