Research

Open PhD positions:

• Seeing between the pores: data assimilation of mean flows through porous structures (link)

Open post-doc positions:

• None, but I am happy to support fellowship applications. Please see below for potential opportunities:

  • 1851 Research Fellowships (link): Deadline is 13 January 2026

  • Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships (link): Deadline is 19 February 2026

  • Marie-Sklodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (link): will open mid-2026

  • Royal Society Newton International Fellowships (link): Deadline TBD

  • There are other government-specific opportunities as well

Current Topics:

• Aerodynamics of rigid and flexible wings subject to free-stream turbulence

• Modelling and measurements of turbulent flows over rough walls

• Reconstruction of time-averaged flows using data-assimilation and physics-informed neural networks (PINNs)

• Reduced-order modelling of turbulent flows with passive scalars 

• Resolvent-based modelling 

Past Topics:

• Eddy viscosity modelling in resolvent analysis 

• Energy transfer predictions in wall-bounded and spatially-developing flows using resolvent analysis

• Properties of superhydrophobic wires

• Reconstruction of flows using data assimilation and resolvent analysis 

Current funding:

• US Air Force Office of Scientific Research: Modelling turbulence over a step change of roughness (with Professor B. Ganapathisubramani)

Past funding:

• EPSRC: Augmenting flow simulations with experimental data to improve aerodynamic efficiency

• Royal Society: Please mind the gap: an equations-driven approach to characterise the aerodynamics of complex vehicles

• University of Melbourne Department of Mechanical Engineering Early Career Researcher Award

• National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship

• National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship (declined to accept NSF GRF)