John Hinch

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Academic Positions

DAMTP , University of Cambridge

1998 - now, Professor in Fluid Mechanics

1994 - 1998, Reader in Fluid Mechanics

1975 - 1994, University Lecturer in Mathematics

1972 - 1975, University Assistant Lecturer in Mathematics

1971 - now, Fellow, Trinity College, Cambridge

Honours

1997 Fellow of the Royal Society

1997 Chevalier d'ordre national du Merite, France

2003 Fellow of the American Physical Society

2010 Docteur Honoris Causa de l'INP Toulouse

Research Interests

Micro-hydrodynamics, colloidal dispersions, flow through porous media, polymer rheology, non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, mobile particulate systems and applications of mathematics to industrial problems.

Other Research Activities

• Associate Editor for Letters of Physics of Fluids.

• Member of editorial boards of Phys of Fluids, J. Non-Newtonian Fluid Mech., and Granular Matter.

• Professeur invite FAST/Orsay & IUSTI/Marseille 2000, IMFT/Toulouse & IUSTI 2001, FAST & IUSTI 2002, IMFT & IUSTI 2003, FAST 2004, IMFT 2005, FAST & IUSTI 2006, IMFT 2007.

• Penner Lecturer UCSD February 2006.

• Principal Lecturer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution GFD Summer School 2003. Plenary speaker at International Congress on Rheology 2000, and European Conference on Mathematics for Industry 2004, International Congress of Mechanical Engineering (Brasilia) 2007, Congres Francais de Mechanique 2007.

• Member of Commite d'Evaluation de CNRS Laboratoire FAST a Paris 2003, de CNRS Laboratoire LEGI a Grenoble 2005, de CNRS Laboratoire IRPHE a Marseille 2006. Member of the International Science Committee for the review of Universite Rennes I in 2006. Member of the Francqui Prize commitee 2006.

• Trustee of the Isaac Newton Trust 2000-2007.

• During the last 4 years, refereed 160+ papers for 35+ different journals, a disadvantage of multidisciplinary work. Also external examiner of 12 overseas PhDs.