Daniel Booth
Research Fellow, UCL
I am an applied mathematician who uses a mixture of asymptotic and numerical techniques to solve biological and fluid dynamics problems in collaboration with experimental scientists. The goal of my research is to fundamentally advance our understanding of complex microscale active systems using mathematical modelling. I am currently studying how active fluids can generate fluid flow and be used to provide programmability in microfluidic devices. During my PhD, I studied the propagation of bubbles inside Hele-Shaw cells, alongside experimental collaborators at Princeton University. These are ubiquitous in many microfluidic applications from soft robotics to novel medical treatments.
Asymptotic analysis
Multiscale mathematical modelling
Stokes flow phenomena
Biological fluid mechanics
Bacterial biofilms
Bubble mechanics in Hele-Shaw cells
Microfluidics
2026-now: Research Fellow, UCL
2024-2026: Research Fellow, University of Warwick
2020-2024: DPhil, Mathematics, University of Oxford
2016-2020: MMath (First Class Honours), University of Oxford
Dipole and pairwise models for bubbles in a Hele-Shaw cell, D.J. Booth, I.M. Griffiths, P.D. Howell, R. Soc. Open Sci.
The motion of a surfactant-laden bubble in a channel or a Hele-Shaw cell, D.J. Booth, I.M. Griffiths, P.D. Howell, J. Fluid Mech.
Controllable microfluidics through active droplets, D.J. Booth, T.D. Montenegro-Johnson, Phys. Rev. Fluids
Bubble racing in a Hele-Shaw cell, D.J. Booth, K. Wu, I.M. Griffiths, P.D. Howell, J.K. Nunes, H.A. Stone, J. Fluid Mech.
The motion of a bubble in a non-uniform Hele-Shaw cell, D.J. Booth, I.M. Griffiths, P.D. Howell, Proc. R. Soc. A
The motion and deformation of a bubble in a Hele-Shaw cell, K. Wu, D.J. Booth∗, I.M. Griffiths, P.D. Howell, J.K. Nunes, H.A. Stone, Phys. Rev. Fluids.
Circular bubbles in a Hele-Shaw channel: a Hele-Shaw Newton’s cradle, D.J. Booth, I.M. Griffiths, P.D. Howell, J. Fluid Mech.
An asymptotic description of confined hydrogel swelling, E.M. Jolley, D.J. Booth, T.D. Montenegro-Johnson, (in press)
Harnessing phoretic slip flow to obtain controllability in microfluidic devices, D.J. Booth, T.D. Montenegro-Johnson, (in production)