Bryn Davies is a mathematician whose work establishes mathematical solutions for fundamental problems in wave physics. He is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow in the Department of Mathematics at Imperial College London, where he is part of Prof. Richard Craster's 'Waves' research group.

Bryn is an applied analyst and uses techniques from spectral theory, the analysis of PDEs and asymptotic methods, in combination with experiments, to study wave propagation in complex media. He has developed theory for applications including topological waveguides, high-contrast nano-particles, quasicrystalline materials, enhanced sensors and bio-inspired metamaterials.

Bryn acts as co-Lead of the Theory, Modelling and AI-Design special interest group (SIG) of the UK Metamaterials Network.

Before moving to Imperial College, Bryn was based at ETH Zurich where he worked under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Habib Ammari. He was previously a student at the University of Oxford, where he completed projects on exponential asymptotics and snaking bifurcations under the supervision of Dr. Philippe Trinh.

Alongside his research, Bryn is an experienced rocket scientist. He worked at the Swiss space initiative ARIS during his time in Zurich and continues to consult on several exciting projects.

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• August 2023 Bryn will be speaknig at the ICIAM in Tokyo and HKSIAM Biennial Meeting in Hong Kong.

• 14 June 2023 Bryn's column in Plus magazine has appeared, illuminating the basics of multiple wave scattering.

• 31 May 2023 A new approach for building dynamically tunable topological waveguides has been published by Bryn with colleagues from Imperial, Exeter and Turin in Applied Physics Letters. This was chosen as an Editor's Pick and is the culmination of a longstanding series of projects, spanning spectral theory and asymptotic analysis.

• March 2023 A microthesis summarising Bryn's PhD work on Using functional analysis to design the materials of the future has appeared in the LMS Newsletter.

• 18 October 2022: Bryn's article demonstrating the spectral properties of dislocated topological media has appeared in the Journal of the London Mathematical Society. This presents a framework for creating robust localised modes with tunable properties. Experimental realisations of this theory are under development.

• 5-7 September 2022: Bryn hosted the CNRS-Imperial Metamaterials Conference 2022 at Imperial College, along with colleagues from Imperial and CNRS.

• 16-17 June 2022: Bryn hosted a workshop on Mimicking and Modelling Auditory Function at Imperial College. A recording of Bryn's talk at the event is available here.

• 23 November 2021: Bryn gave a talk as part of the MetaMAT webinar series - the recording is available here.

• 12 October 2021: A collaborative article on the occurrence of bound states in the continuum and Fano resonances in subwavelength resonator arrays has been published in the Journal of Mathematical Physics and was selected as an Editor's Pick.

• 29 July 2021: A paper from a collaboration with Andrew Bell and Habib Ammari, on the role of Bernhard Riemann in developing modern perspectives of human hearing, has appeared in Foundations of Science.

• 19 July 2021: Bryn gave a presentation "A biomimetic approach to sensing with waves" at the SIAM Annual Meeting. This centred on a case study of his work concerning the design of cochlea-inspired auditory sensors.

• 26 May 2021: Bryn presented the results of a recent paper "Robust edge modes in dislocated systems of subwavelength resonators" at the SIAM Conference on Mathematical Aspects of Materials Science.