Group Members
Halim Kusumaatmaja
Jason Reese Chair of Multiscale Fluid Mechanics, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh (from May 2024)
Professor at the Department of Physics, Durham University (until April 2024)
Co-Director of Durham Biophysical Sciences Institute (until April 2024)
Co-Leader of UKFN SIG on Droplet and flow interactions with bio-inspired and smart surfaces
Office: PH249 (Wolfendale Wing)
Abhinav Naga
EPSRC NFFDy Fellow
Project: Self-Cleaning on Superhydrophobic and Liquid Infused Surfaces
Office: Edinburgh Engineering
Previous Positions:
PhD student at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research
Undergraduate at the University of Oxford
Xitong Zhang
PDRA
Project: Fluid Mechanics of Wettability-Patterned Liquid Surfaces
Office: Durham Physics/Edinburgh Engineering
Previous Positions:
PhD student at Xi'an Jiaotong University
Master student at Jiangsu University
Undergraduate at Jiangsu University
Samuel Avis
PDRA
Project: Liquid Evaporation on Structured Surfaces
Office: Durham Physics
Previous Position:
Undergraduate at Durham University
PhD Student at Durham University
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
Patrick Sullivan
PDRA (co-supervised by Prof Ed Llewellin)
Project: Bubble Nucleation and Growth
Office: Durham Earth Sciences
Previous Position:
PhD student at University of Edinburgh
Undergraduate at Trinity College Dublin
Michael Rennick
PhD Student
Project: Lattice Boltzmann modelling
Office: Durham Physics/Edinburgh Engineering
Previous Position:
Undergraduate at Durham University
Alexander Brown
PhD Student
Project: Droplet-membrane interactions
Office: Durham Physics
Previous Position:
Undergraduate at Durham University
Ke Sun
PhD Student (co-supervised by Prof Kislon Voitchovsky)
Project: Ternary Dewetting
Office: Durham Physics
Previous Position:
Undergraduate at the University of Edinburgh
Xiaotian Ma
PhD Student
Project: Liquid-liquid phase separation
Office: Durham Physics/Edinburgh Engineering
Previous Position:
Undergraduate at Durham University
Thomas Williamson
PhD Student
Project: FlickerPRINT for Monitoring Intracellular Droplet Organelles
Office: Durham Physics/Edinburgh Engineering
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: Edinburgh Engineering
Previous Position:
Undergraduate at University of Warwick
Former Master by Research Students, PhD Students and Postdocs:
Jack Parker (PhD Student, 2020-2024). Project: Confinement of Biological Systems. Next Position: NHS.
Listra Ginting (PhD Student, 2019-2023). Project: Surveying energy landscapes of soft and biological materials. Next Position: Lecturer, Institut Teknologi Sumatera
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
Sam Avis (PhD Student, 2019-2023). Project: Surveying the Energy Landscapes of Multistable Elastic Structures. Next Position: PDRA, Durham University.
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.
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.
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.
Jack Law (PhD Student, joint with Dr Mark Miller, 2016-2020). Project: Colloidal Systems Confined to Curved Surfaces. Next Position: PDRA, University of Bergen.
Muhammad Subkhi Sadullah (PhD Student, 2015-2020; www). Project: Computational Studies of Liquid Droplet on Liquid Infused Surfaces. Next Position: PDRA, KAUST.
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.
Dr 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.
Dr Marianna Pepona (PDRA, 2017-2018; www). Project: Lattice Boltzmann Simulations of Elastic Wetting. Next Position: PDRA, Duke University.
Dr Jorge Benet (PDRA, 2015-2017; www). Project: Casimir Interactions on Membranes.
Dr 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.
Dr Fabien Paillusson (PDRA, 2014-2015; www). Project: Membrane Biophysics. Next Position: Lecturer (Assistant Professor), University of Lincoln.
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.