Our group attempts to correlate the microscopic structures and particle-scale dynamics in soft glassy materials with their bulk properties such as their rheology (flow and deformation behaviour). More details on some selected work on this topic can be found by clicking the button below. 

We are very interested in studying emergent properties in suspensions that are driven by external fields. Our recent optical tweezer work on aging clay suspensions driven by shear and electric fields can be seen by clicking the button below

We study how the complex rheology of non-Newtonian fluids influences the formation and growth of interfacial instabilities in a Hele-Shaw cell. Another problem that interests us involves when and where cracks form in a drying water-containing material. Details can be found by clicking the button below