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Halim Kusumaatmaja
Jason Reese Chair of Multiscale Fluid Mechanics
School of Engineering
University of Edinburgh
Office: JCMB 2.2409
Abhinav Naga
EPSRC NFFDy Fellow (Independent PDRA Fellowship)
Project: Self-Cleaning on Superhydrophobic and Liquid Infused Surfaces
Office: JCMB 2.2404
Previous Positions:
PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Undergraduate at the University of Oxford
Junyu Yang
PDRA
Project: Wetting Phenomena and Multiphase Flows
Office: JCMB 2.2017
Previous Positions:
PDRA at University College London
PhD at Tsinghua University
Undergraduate at Tsinghua University
Sheng Li
PDRA
Project: Wetting Phenomena and Multiphase Flows
Office: JCMB 2.2017
Previous Positions:
PhD at Xi'an Jiaotong University
Undergraduate at China University of Petroleum
Haolin Yang
SUM4Products InRA
Office: JCMB 2.2017
Previous Positions:
PhD student at University of Glasgow
Master student at University of Oxford
Undergraduate at University of Bristol
Mouad Boudina
PDRA
Project: Wetting Phenomena
Office: JCMB 2.2017
Previous Positions:
PhD student at University of British Columbia
Master student at Polytechnique Montreal
Undergraduate at Ecole Polytechnique
Michael Rennick
PhD Student
Project: Lattice Boltzmann modelling
Office: JCMB 2.2017
Previous Position:
Undergraduate at Durham University
Xiaotian Ma
PhD Student (co-supervised by Dr Mark Miller)
Project: Liquid-liquid phase separation
Office: JCMB 2.2017
Previous Position:
Undergraduate at Durham University
Thomas Williamson
PhD Student (co-supervised by Prof Sushma Grellscheid)
Project: FlickerPRINT for Monitoring Intracellular Droplet Organelles
Office: JCMB 2.2017
Previous Position:
Undergraduate at Durham University
Aqib Asif
PhD Student (co-supervised by Dr Abhinav Naga and Prof Glen McHale)
Project: Understanding the Mechanisms of Self-cleaning Surfaces
Office: JCMB 2.2017
Previous Position:
Undergraduate at University of Warwick
Seamus Lilley
PhD Student (co-supervised by Prof Glen McHale, Dr Gary Wells and Dr Jon Terry)
Project: Designing Structured Surfaces with Superwetability Properties
Office: JCMB 2.2017
Previous Position:
Undergraduate at University of Sydney
Ariel Zachary Candelaria
PhD Student (co-supervised by Dr Rodrigo Ledesma)
Project: Wetting of Biologically Inspired Surfaces
Office: JCMB 2.2017
Previous Position:
Undergraduate at University of New Mexico
Master student at Virginia Tech
Yashit Verma
PhD Student
Project: Biomolecular Condensates
Office: JCMB 2.2017
Previous Position:
Undergraduate at University of Delhi
Master student at IIT Bombay
Yang Zhang
Visiting PhD Student
Project: Lattice Boltzmann Simulations
Office: JCMB 2.2017
Previous Position:
PhD at China University of Petroleum
ME at China University of Petroleum
BS at China University of Petroleum
Associated Members in Durham
Omer Rathore
PDRA (co-supervised by Dr Nick Chancellor and Dr Alastair Basden)
Project: Quantum Computing for Fluid Simulations
Office: Durham Physics
Previous Positions:
PhD student at Imperial College London
Undergraduate at Imperial College London
Listra Ginting
PhD Student (co-supervised by Prof Beth Bromley)
Project: Surveying energy landscapes of soft and biological materials
Previous Position:
Undergraduate at Institut Teknologi Bandung
Master Student at Osaka University
Former Master by Research Students, PhD Students and Postdocs:
Ke Sun (PhD Student, joint with Prof Kislon Voitchovsky). Project: Capillary-driven Interactions at Solid and Liquid Interfaces: Adhesion, Bridging, and Removal.
Xitong Zhang (PDRA, joint with Dr Rodrigo Ledesma, Prof Glen McHale, and Dr Gary Wells). Project: Fluid Mechanics of Wettability-Patterned Liquid Surfaces.
Patrick Sullivan (PDRA, joint with Prof Ed Llewellin and Dr Fabian Wadsworth, 2023-2025). Project: Bubble Nucleation and Growth in Magma. Next Position: PDRA, Durham University.
Alexander Brown (PhD Student, joint with Dr Mark Miller and Prof Roland Knorr, 2021-2025). Project: Complex Morphologies of Biomolecular Condensates and Lipid Vesicles: A Continuum Modelling Approach.
Jack Parker (PhD Student, 2020-2024). Project: Confinement of Biological Systems. Next Position: NHS.
Finlay Gerrand (Master by Research Student, joint with Dr Mark Miller, 2020-2021). Project: Colloidal Crystals on Conical Surfaces. Next Position: PhD student at the University of Cambridge.
Sam Avis (PhD Student 2019-2023; PDRA, 2023-2025). Projects: Surveying the Energy Landscapes of Multistable Elastic Structures & Liquid Evaporation on Structured Surfaces. Next Position: Research Software Engineer, University of Cambridge.
Fandi Oktasendra (PhD Student, 2019-2024). Project: Diffuse Interface Modelling of Wetting on Complex Structured Surfaces. Next Position: Lecturer, Universitas Negeri Padang.
Raymond Christianto (PhD Student, 2019-2023). Project: Lattice Boltzmann Modelling of Droplet Dynamics on Fibres and Meshed Surfaces
Sarah Goodband (PhD Student, joint with Prof Kislon Voitchovsky, 2018-2022). Project: Wetting Behaviour of Droplets and Capillary Liquid Bridges Involving Liquid Infused Surfaces. Next Position: PDRA, UCL.
Alvin Shek (PhD Student, 2017-2022). Project: From Binary to Ternary Fluid Systems. Next Position: Siemens Cambridge.
Andrew Christy (PhD Student, joint with Dr Mark Miller, 2017-2021). Project: Phase Separation and Superselective Binding of Multivalent Associative Polymers. Next Position: Civil Service.
Carl Jones (PhD Student, joint with Prof Sushma Grellscheid, 2017-2021). Project: Developing Computational Tools to Investigate Stress Granules In-vivo. Next Position: PDRA, University of Bergen.
Marianna Pepona (PDRA, 2017-2018; www). Project: Lattice Boltzmann Simulations of Elastic Wetting. Next Position: PDRA, Duke University.
Jack Law (PhD Student, joint with Dr Mark Miller, 2016-2020). Project: Colloidal Systems Confined to Curved Surfaces. Next Position: PDRA, University of Bergen.
Will Foster (PhD Student, 2016-2020, joint with Prof Kislon Voitchovsky; www). Project: Molecular-Level Organization and Dynamics of Miscible Liquids at the Interfaces with Solids. Next Position: NHS Clinical Scientist.
Muhammad Subkhi Sadullah (PhD Student, 2015-2020; www). Project: Computational Studies of Liquid Droplet on Liquid Infused Surfaces. Next Position: PDRA, KAUST.
Jack Panter (PhD Student, 2015-2019; Postdoc, 2019-2020 & 2021-2022; www). Project: Exploring Stability Landscapes for Optimal Material Design: Application to Wetting of Structured Surfaces. Next Position: Lecturer (Assistant Professor), University of East Anglia.
Jorge Benet (PDRA, 2015-2017; www). Project: Casimir Interactions on Membranes.
Ciro Semprebon (PDRA, 2015-2016; www). Project: Wetting Phenomena on Structured Substrates. Next Position: Vice-Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow in Future Engineering, Northumbria University.
Fabien Paillusson (PDRA, 2014-2015; www). Project: Membrane Biophysics. Next Position: Lecturer (Assistant Professor), University of Lincoln.
Former BEng/MEng Project Students:
Dani Jerad (2025). Project: Massively Parallel Lattice Boltzmann Fluid Simulations.
Fabio Ren (2026). Project: Comparative Evaluation of Optimisation Methods for Superomniphobic Surface Design
Ella Rousseau (2026). Project: Establishing Design Rules for Biomolecular Condensates Using DNA Nanostars and FlickerPrint
Former Level 4 (MPhys) Project Students:
Szymon Oramus (2022-2023). Project: Contact Line Dynamics on Liquid Surfaces.
Xiaotian Ma (2021-2022). Project: Capillary Phenomena Inside Cells.
Alexander Brown (2020-2021). Project: Multistable 3D Buckled Structures.
Mia Laycock (2020-2021). Project: Phase Separation Inside Biological Cells.
Michael Rennick (2020-2021). Project: Massively Parallel Lattice Boltzmann Fluid Simulations.
Thomas Lark (2019-2020). Project: Capillary Phenomena Inside Cells.
John Crooks (2018-2019). Project: Liquid Infused Surfaces.
Frederick Levitt (2018-2019). Project: Network Theory of Evolution.
Samuel Zijderveld (2018-2019). Project: Mimicking Biological Tissues Using Tiny Droplets.
Samuel Avis (2018-2019). Project: Massively Parallel Lattice Boltzmann Fluid Simulations.
Jayne Parle (2017-2018). Project: Liquid Infused Surfaces.
James Pointon (2017-2018).Project: Network Theory of Evolution.
Seth Price (2017-2018). Project: Mimicking Biological Tissues Using Tiny Droplets.
Jonathan Rees (2017-2018; Co-supervised by Prof Kislon Voitchovsky). Project: Making water from thin air.
Ferdinand Mühlbauer (2015-2016). Project: Super Slippery Surfaces.
Carl Jones (2015-2016). Project: Energy Landscapes of Vesicles and Capsules.
Jack Mann (2015-2016). Project: Ternary Phase Separation.
Matthew Lee (2013-2014). Project: Colloidal clusters embedded on curved interfaces.
Former Undergraduate Summer Students and Visiting Students:
Thomas Williamson (Laidlaw Summer Student, 2022, co-supervised by Prof Sushma Grellscheid). Project: Flicker Spectroscopy for Condensates.
Alexander Moorhouse (Physics Summer Student, 2022, co-supervised by Dr Mark Miller and Dr Jack Panter). Project: Colloids on Curved Surfaces.
Michael Rennick (CCP5 Summer Student, 2021, co-supervised by Dr Jianping Meng). Project: Modelling a Flea-Inspired Liquid Diode using Free-Energy Lattice Boltzmann Method.
Adam Carruthers (BSI Summer Student, 2020, co-supervised by Dr Ostap Hyrniv). Project: Finding Optimal Minimum Energy Pathways.
Alexander Lea (Laidlaw Scholarship, 2019 & 2020). Project: Elastocapillarity.
Finlay Gerrand (Summer Student, 2019). Project: Elastocapillarity.
Gaurav Agarwal (BSI Summer Student, 2019). Project: Capillary Bridges between Lipid Membranes.
Ningning Wang (Visiting PhD Student funded by Chinese Scholarship Council, 2017-2018). Project: Simulating drop generation in microfluidic devices using the lattice Boltzmann method.
George Fearnley (Physics Summer Student, 2018). Project: Cylindrical buckling.
Matthew Carrington (BP Summer Student, 2017). Project: Liquid Infused Surfaces.
Ashley Kelly (BSI Summer Student, 2017). Project: Dimensional reduction in fitness landscapes.
Moritz Wöhrwag (Visiting Student from ETH Zürich, 2017). Project: High density ternary lattice Boltzmann method.
Benjamin Guiselin (Visiting Student from ENS Lyon, 2016). Project: Stability and dynamic morphologies of droplet interface bilayers.
Asa Cooper-Stickland (Physics Summer Student, 2016). Project: Direct numerical simulation of the rheology of bubbly liquids using the lattice Boltzmann method.
Joao Martins-Carabetta (Science Without Borders, 2015). Project: Novel elastic band techniques for finding transition pathways.
Victor Sopo-Barerra (BP Summer Student, 2015). Project: Wetting on rough surfaces.
Tom Lamport (BP Summer Student, 2015, co-supervised by Dr B Chakrabarti). Project: Motion of complex fluid through nano channels.
Alex Dent (BSI Summer Student, 2015). Project: The energy landscapes of domain swapping proteins.
Miranda Nixon (BSI Summer Student, 2015, co-supervised by Dr M A Miller). Project: Phase separation and membraneless organelles.
Matthew Pennington (BSI Summer Student, 2014). Project: Phase separation on bicontinuous cubic membrane.
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