Granular Research Team:

Dr. Nathalie Vriend

Mr. Joshua Caplan

Dr. Katherine Daniels

NERC Research Fellow in DAMTP, University of Cambridge

Ph.D. student in DAMTP, University of Cambridge

Research assistant in DAMTP, University of Cambridge

Nathalie Vriend:

Nathalie has been an independent researcher on a NERC Research Fellowship at the University of Cambridge since October 2011. She finished her Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering and Geophysics at the California Institute of Technology in 2010. Nathalie's research interests include granular flows and fluid dynamics, including sand dune migration, dynamics of snow avalanches and debris flows and segregation of a particulate material.

Her personal webpage can be found here: webpage

Joshua Caplan:

Josh started his Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge in October 2012 and is co-supervised by Dr. Nathalie Vriend and Dr. Stuart Dalziel. He finished his undergraduate and master degree in Mathematics at the University of Cambridge in 2012. Josh is interested in segregation effects in granular flows. He is currently conducting experiments with a bimodal mixture of grains in a granular collapse geometry.

His personal webpage can be found here: webpage

Katherine Daniels:

Katherine started a 4-month Research Assistant position at the University of Cambridge in December 2012 and is supervised by Dr. Nathalie Vriend. She finished her Ph.D. degree at the School of Earth Sciences of the University of Bristol in 2012 on "Modelling magma transport: a study of dyke propagation". She is currently working on short project funded by EPSRC's "Returning Carers Scheme" on field and laboratory experiments of segregation in 3D avalanches.

Her personal webpage can be found here: webpage