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.

Recent News:

• 25-27/6/2025: Halim attended and gave an invited talk at Condensed Matter and Quantum Materials 2025 at the University of Bristol. 

• 19/6/2025: We are part of a new EPSRC project "Development of next generation disruptive mega-casting technologies for green and sustainable transportation vehicles (MegaCast)" in collaboration with colleagues at Brunel and Hull [www].

• 19-20/6/2025: Halim is giving an invited talk at the Department of Mathematics, University of Oslo. Thanks to Prof Andreas Carlson for the invitation.

• 6/6/2025: Halim is giving a talk for the UK Condensates online seminar series (https://www.ukcondensates.co.uk/monthly-network-seminar-series). 

• 17/4/2025: A new paper "The Diffuse Solid Method for Wetting and Multiphase Fluid Simulations in Complex Geometries" is accepted for publication in Physics of Fluids. 

• 25-28/3/2025: Prof Sauro Succi from IIT at La Sapenza is visiting our group. Sauro will give an invited talk at the Quantum Computing for Fluids workshop in Edinburgh, and the Edinburgh Fluid Dynamics Group colloquium. 

• 24-27/3/2025: Halim is attending and giving an invited talk on "Biomolecular Condensates and Surface Tension Phenomena" at the Physics of Life 2025 conference in Harrogate.

• 17-21/3/2025: Mehrdad Vasheghani Farahani is visiting our group from the University of Manchester (Prof Vahid Niasar's group).

• 1/3/2025: Halim gave an invited online talk hosted by Universitas Brawijaya on Bioinspired Wetting and Interfacial Phenomena.

• 23/2/2025: Halim gave talks for Sciencemind EduLab on how to write papers and how to address reviewer comments. 

• 14/2/2025: Halim gave an invited talk on N-Component Free Energy Lattice Boltzmann at the UKCOMES Spring Technical Meeting 2025.

• 12/2/2025: Halim co-organised the first Scottish Soft Matter Meeting (www).

• 17/1/2025: Dr Geng Wang is visiting and giving a seminar at the Institute for Multiscale Thermofluids (Edinburgh). 

• 6-7/1/2025: Halim co-organised the first UK Condensates network meeting in Durham.

• 3/12/2024: Ke's paper Nanoparticle Adhesion at Liquid Interfaces has been accepted for publication in Soft Matter.

• 2/12/2024: Welcome to Zac Candelaria who joins the group as a PhD student.

• 30/10-1/11/2024: Prof Sebastian Aland visited our group and gave an IMT seminar.

• 14/10/2024: Welcome to Dr Sheng Li who joins the group as a PDRA.

• 8-9/10/2024: Halim gave an invited talk at the International Conference on Physics and Technology of Advanced Materials 2024 in Bali, Indonesia.

• 7/10/2024: Welcome to Dr Junyu Yang who joins the group as a PDRA.

• 17-18/9/2024: Halim visited the Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics Group at Open University, and gave the Mathematics Colloquium. 

• 17/9/2024: Abhinav's paper on "Direct Visualization of Viscous Dissipation and Wetting Ridge Geometry on Lubricant-Infused Surfaces" is published in Communications Physics [www].

• 9/9/2024: Seamus Lilley started his PhD in the group. 

• 17-18/7/2024: Halim attended the QEVEC meeeting at the University of Strathclyde.

• 10-12/7/2024: Halim attended and gave an attended talk at DSFD 2024 in Zürich.

• 8-9/7/2024: Halim attended and gave an invited talk at Ecomat 2024 in Newcastle.

• 4-5/7/2024: Halim, Abhinav and Ian Wilson (Cambridge) organised a two-day meeting in Durham on Modelling Cleaning and Decontamination.

• 1-3/7/2024: Halim gave an invited talk at the SPP 2171 Dynamic Wetting of Flexible, Adaptive, and Switchable Surfaces Summer School in Münster.

• 24-28/6/2024: Halim attended and presented at BIFD 2024 in Edinburgh.

• 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.

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