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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
Xitong Zhang
PDRA (co-supervised by Dr Rodrigo Ledesma, Dr Gary Wells and Prof Glen McHale)
Project: Fluid Mechanics of Wettability-Patterned Liquid Surfaces
Office: JCMB 2.2017
Previous Positions:
PhD student at Xi'an Jiaotong University
Master student at Jiangsu University
Undergraduate at Jiangsu University
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
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
Fabio Ren
MEng Student
Ella Rousseau
MEng Student
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
Ke Sun
PhD Student (co-supervised by Prof Kislon Voitchovsky)
Project: Ternary Dewetting
Office: Durham Physics
Previous Position:
Undergraduate at the University of Edinburgh
Former Master by Research Students, PhD Students and Postdocs:
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.
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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