Curriculum Vitae

CV: CV

April 2019 - present

Assistant Professor in Applied Mathematics

University of Nottingham

January 2017 - April 2019

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

University of East Anglia

The ability to manipulate multi-layer flows is of central importance in the rapidly burgeoning field of microfluidics. One possible approach is by using chemical additives known as surfactants, which can greatly influence such flows especially at small scales. The proposed project aims to broaden our understanding of this control mechanism and the associated complex nonlinear phenomena.

July 2014 - December 2016

Research Fellow

University of Leeds

My postdoc research concerned mathematical modelling of nonlinear water waves and their impact on ships. I employed variational methods to derive time-evolution equations and performed numerical simulations to investigate various water–wave problems.

Project title: “FastFEM: behavior of fast ships in waves” (EPSRC grant EP/L025388/1).
Jan.-Dec. 2016: Impact postdoc in collaboration with the Maritime Institute Netherlands (MARIN), aiming to produce a simulation tool that can be used by maritime engineers.
Research interests: Nonlinear water waves, variational principle, Hamiltonian mechanics, finite element method, symplectic integrators, shallow water, Benney-Luke equations, fluid-structure interaction, breaking waves.
Numerical package: Firedrake. Implementation in Python and data visualization in ParaView. Also contributed a demo based on the Benney-Luke problem, built using the Sphinx documentation system (including the Bibtex plugin) in combination with some homebrew scripting.
YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUZAYHtVoiMqepQflisp66g.

December 2010 - June 2014

Research Postgraduate Student

Imperial College London

My PhD research has shed light on the role of insoluble surfactants on the interfacial instabilities encountered in two-fluid shear flows. The research approach followed integrates different techniques, with particular aim to explore the underlying nonlinear dynamics.

Research interests: two-phase flows, multilayer shear flows, interfacial instabilities, thin film flows, inertial effects, surfactants, Marangoni instability, bifurcation theory, chaos.
Techniques: asymptotic analysis, linear stability analysis, perturbation methods, Fourier theory, spectral methods, implicit/explicit numerical methods, finite difference methods.
Numerical implementation: Fortran and Matlab. Remote Linux computing.