Simulations of Soft Matter & Fluid Dynamics
Group Leader: Prof Halim Kusumaatmaja
Welcome to our group's website. Our group has recently moved to the University of Edinburgh. We are interested in Multiscale Fluid Mechanics, Soft Matter and Biophysics. Our work is interdisciplinary, lying at the interface between Engineering, Physics, Applied Mathematics, Chemistry, and Biology. Please see our research summary and publications if you want to learn more about our work.
We have a number of open positions at the University of Edinburgh:
Two open PDRA positions. [Link}
We will also recruit two new PhD students for September 2025, but any talented student is encouraged to contact Halim as soon as possible.
Recent News:
29/5/2024: The Scottish Fluid Mechanics Meeting took place in Edinburgh this year.
1/5/2024: Halim officially starts in Edinburgh. The group will slowly migrate from Durham to Edinburgh.
24-25/4/2024: Dr Jamie Agudo-Canalejo (UCL) is visiting our group.
17-19/4/2024: Dr Alex Wray (Strathclyde) is visiting our group.
16/4/2024: Halim attended the EPSRC Fellow Meeting in Birmingham.
9-11/4/2024: Halim and Abhinav attend and speak at BAMC 2024 in Newcastle.
4-5/3/2024: Halim gave a lecture on OpenLB spring school in Heidelberg, Germany. Michael also helped with the practical.
15/2/2024: Halim gave an invited talk at INI workshop on "Using Solution Landscapes to Engineer New Soft Material Devices"Using Solution Landscapes to Engineer New Soft Material Devices" at the University of Strathclyde. Thomas also attended the workshop.
7/2/2024: Prof Tim Saunders is visiting Durham and giving the CMP seminar entitled "The emergence of complex cell and tissue shape in biological systems".
15/1/2024: Halim and Omer attended the Qevec meeting at London South Bank University.
15/12/2023: Halim is giving an invited seminar at Institut Henri Poincaré. Thanks Francois Dubois for the invitation.
12-14/12/2023: Halim is attending and giving an invited talk at the NICE International rendez-vous.
5-7/12/2023: Luke Davis from UCL is visiting us in Durham.
28-29/11/2023: We have the Quandie workshop in Durham. Thanks Omer for organising it!
24/11/2023: Durham BSI is hosting Dr Yuval Elani, our Judith Howard lecturer this year.
17/11/2023: Halim gave a seminar at the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Birmingham
14/11/2023: Halim is hosting Durham BSI's grant writing plenary talk by Prof Mark Leake (York)
1/11/2023: Halim gave a seminar at the Isaac Newton Institute, University of Cambridge
26/10/2023: Halim is giving a seminar at the Department of Chemistry, University of Cambridge
25/10/2023: Halim is a co-author on a paper "Droplet Self-Propulsion on Slippery Liquid-Infused Surfaces with Dual Lubricant Wedge-Shaped Wettability Patterns" published in Langmuir. This work is with colleagues at the University of Edinburgh.
23/10/2023: We have the first meeting of our INI Network "Using Solution Landscapes to Engineer New Soft Material Devices"
9/10-3/11/2023: Halim is visiting the Isaac Newton Institute in Cambridge.
9-14/9/2023: Yonas Gizaw (GreenChemSolutions) is visiting the group.
24-25/7/2023: Halim attended and gave a talk at the International Meeting on Wetting and Carbon Neutralisation 2023 at Queen Mary University of London.
20/7/2023: Halim gave an invited talk on "Wetting of Biomolecular Condensates in Biological Cells" at the CCP5 Summer School.
20-21/7/2023: Dr Mark Driver from Groningen is visiting the group. Mark gave a talk on "RNA-protein interactions in molecular life and health".
9/6/2023: Congrats Sam for passing his PhD viva! Thanks to Buddho Chakrabarti and Suzanne Fielding for examining the thesis.
5-6/6/2023: Halim attended and gave a lecture on multiphase and multicomponent flow in OpenLB Spring School at the University of Greenwich.
31/5-2/6/2023: Dr Mathias Krause from KIT is visiting the group and giving a seminar on OpenLB.
3-5/4/2023: Halim attended and gave an invited talk on "Wetting of Biomolecular Condensates in Biological Cells" at the 5th Manchester Multiscale Conference.
30-31/3/2023: Halim attended and gave a talk at the Physics of Emergent Behaviour IV: Phase Transitions in Biology. Alex and Xiaotian attended the meeting too.
27-30/3/2023: Halim attended the Physics of Life 2023 meeting at Harrogate.
13-15/3/2023: Halim is attending and speaking at the CECAM workshop on "Metastability and multiscale effects in interfacial phenomena"
11/3/2023: A new paper on "Rough Capillary Rise" is published by Communications Physics [www]. This is a joint collaboration with colleagues at ExxonMobil.
1/3/2023: Halim attended and spoke at the IAS meeting "Development Of Smart Surfaces With Antimicrobial Properties" at the University of Birmingham.
14/2/2023: Dr Xitong Zhang is joining our group as a PDRA. He will work on a Leverhulme project together with colleagues at the University of Edinburgh. Welcome Xitong!
6/2/2023: Halim attended the UKCOMES kick-off meeting in London.