Dr Cat Vreugdenhil

I am an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (ARC DECRA) Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Melbourne. 

My research interests are Geophysical Fluid Dynamics and Oceanography. I use innovative and powerful engineering tools of turbulence-resolving computer simulations to better understand ocean physics with important climate change implications.

I completed my PhD at the Australian National University, achieving the Uwe Radok Award for Best PhD Thesis from the Australian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society. I followed this with a three-year postdoctoral research position at the University of Cambridge, investigating the melting of Antarctic ice shelves in collaboration with researchers at the British Antarctic Survey. In 2020, I joined the University of Melbourne as a Doreen Thomas Research Fellow. 

I am the course convenor for ENGR20005 Numerical Methods in Engineering. I am on the Student/Early Career Researcher sub-committee of the Australasian Fluid Mechanics Society. I also co-convene the Australasian Fluid Mechanics Seminar Series, a weekly online seminar featuring Fluid Mechanics research. I am an Affiliated Investigator with the Australian Centre for Excellence in Antarctic Science. 

I am available for supervision of Capstone, Masters or PhD for motivated students. The candidate is expected to have a strong background in Engineering, Physics, Mathematics, Oceanography or a closely related discipline. Please email me if this sounds of interest!