People
Staff profiles at the University of Leeds that have Fluid Dynamics linked research interests are listed here.
Below you will find details of LIFD's Management Board. Profiles of Executive Committee members can be found on the About page.
Leeds Institute for Fluid Dynamics Management Team
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Steve Tobias | Director |
| Harvey Thompson | Deputy Director |
| Timothy Hunter | Deputy Director |
| Chris Davies | Deputy Director |
| Claire Savy | Manager |
| Kate Robinson | Administrative Assistant |
| Peter Jimack | PhD group leader |
| Jeff Peakall | Experimental group leader |
| Duncan Borman | MSc group leader |
| Onno Bokhove | Industry group leader |
| Rob Sturman | International lead |
| Sepideh Khodaparast | University Academic Fellow in Fluid Dynamics |
| Kasia Nowakowska | Student representative |
| Jurgen Schneider | Biomedical representative |
| Amir Khan | Computational group leader |
| Karen Steenson | LIFD Research & Innovation Development Manager |
| Cath Noakes | Pro-dean for research and innovation |
| Phil Livermore | Machine Learning Lead |
| Calum Skene | ECR Forum Lead |
Fluid Dynamics Research Groups by School
Chemical and Process Engineering: Relevant research groups include: Institute of Process Research and Development; Energy Leeds
Chemistry: Relevant research groups include: Atmospheric and Planetary Chemistry; Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry; Colour and Polymer Science; Process Research and Development
Civil Engineering: Relevant research groups include: Energy and Sustainable Buildings; Water, Public Health and Environmental Engineering
Computing: Relevant research groups include: Artificial Intelligence; Computational Medicine; Computational Science and Engineering
Earth and Environment: Relevant research groups include: Institute of Applied Geoscience; Institute of Geophysics and Tectonics; Institute for Climate and Atmospheric Science; Priestley International Centre for Climate
Geography: Relevant research groups include: River Basin Processes and Management; Ecology and Global Change
Medicine and Health/Biology: Relevant research groups include: Leeds Institute of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Medicine; Cardiovascular and Sport and Exercise Sciences group
Mechanical Engineering: Relevant research groups include: Institute of Thermofluids; Institute of Functional Surfaces
Mathematics: Relevant research groups include: Applied Nonlinear Dynamics; Astrophysical and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics; Complex Materials and Industrial Mathematics
Physics and Astronomy: Relevant research groups include: Astrophysics; Theoretical Physics, Molecular and Nanoscale Physics
| Name | Title | Areas of expertise |
|---|---|---|
| Toni Lassila | Dr | Computational fluid dynamics, finite element methods, uncertainty quantification, cardiovascular modelling |
| Adrian Barker | Dr | Astrophysical fluid dynamics, tidal interactions between planets and stars, instabilities and turbulence in astrophysics, extrasolar planets |
| Richard Barker | Dr | Carbon capture, geothermal systems, corrosion in oil and gas |
| Andrew Bayly | Professor | Granular media, multiphase flow, computational fluid dynamics, drying and wetting, drops, colloids, printing, experimental fluid dynamics, discrete element method, pharmaceuticals |
| Cedric Beaume | Dr | Instabilities, transition to turbulence, doubly diffusive convection, dynamical systems, nonlinear dynamics, pattern formation |
| Mohsen Besharat | Dr | Two-phase transient flow; Operational problems linked to two-phase flow interactions; Energy storage solutions in water infrastructures; Compressed air energy storage |
| Cathryn Birch | Dr | Tropical meteorology, convection, severe weather, monsoons, the water cycle, land-atmosphere interactions, convection-permitting numerical weather models |
| Karen Birch | Prof | Vascular physiology, flow mediated dilation, exercise physiology, exercise and cardiovascular disease, blood flow during exercise: cardiac and peripheral using MRI or Doppler |
| Malenka Bissell | Dr | Cardiac magnetic resonance imaging, 4D flow MRI, congenital heart disease |
| Alan Blyth | Professor | Cloud physics, convection, atmospheric observations, flooding, weather forecasting |
| Steven Boeing | Dr | Atmospheric flows, moist convection, plumes, thermals, large-eddy simulation, boundary layer meteorology |
| Onno Bokhove | Professor | Geophysical fluid dynamics, experimental fluid dynamics, weather prediction models, Hamiltonian fluid dynamics, computational fluid dynamics |
| Peter Bollada | Dr | Phase field, alloy solidifaction, complex fluids, non-equilibrium thermodynamics |
| Richard Booth | Dr | Astrophysical fluid dynamics, planet formation, multi-phase flows |
| Antonia Borissova | Dr | Crystallisation, multiphase and multiscale systems |
| Duncan Borman | Dr | Computational fluid dynamics, environmental flows, multiphase flows, mathematical modelling, hydraulic modelling, wastewater modelling, mixing, moving boundaries, free surfaces |
| Derek Bradley | Professor | Thermodynamics, combustion, energy |
| Neil Bressloff | Professor | Computational fluid dynamics, biomedical engineering and design, valves |
| Ian Brooks | Professor | Boundary-layer meteorology, air-sea interactions, turbulent processes, polar boundary layers |
| David Buckley | Prof | Magnetic resonance imaging, measurement of tissue perfusion |
| Helen Burns | Dr | Numerical modelling, climate dynamics, atmospheric dynamics, ocean dynamics |
| Ralph Burton | Dr | Numerical weather prediction models, atmospheric dispersion, convection, orographic flow, volcano plumes |
| Miller Camargo-Valero | Dr | Wastewater treatment, sewage sludge management, water and sanitation, wastewater reuse in agriculture |
| Jonathan Carrivick | Dr | Glaciers, outburst floods, arctic and alpine hydrology, glacier lakes |
| Ken Carslaw | Professor | Aerosols, cloud physics, climate change, climate modelling, air pollution |
| Olivier Cayre | Dr | Colloids, emulsions, foams, polymers, interfacial phenomena |
| Xiaohui Chen | Dr | Mixture-coupling theory, THBMC (Thermo-Hydro-Bio-Mechanical-Chemical) modelling, nuclear waste disposal, groundwater pollution and contaminated land, reactive transport modelling |
| Xiaohui Chen | Dr | Coupled Multiphase Flow in Deformable Porous Media, Machine Learning, Physics-Informed and Interpretable Machine Learning. |
| Netta Cohen | Professor | Active swimmers, bio-fluids, biomechanical models, 3D locomotion |
| Erica Dall'Armelina | Dr | Cardiology, cardiovascular imaging, cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging, |
| Chinmay Das | Dr | Polymers, biophysics, soft matter, rheology |
| Chris Davies | Professor | Geodynamics, geodynamo theory, convection, core-mantle interactions, high-performance computing, numerical methods |
| Greg De Boer | Dr | Numerical methods, aerospace design, multiscale modelling of lubricated contacts, fluid structure interactions, computational fluid dynamics |
| Leif Denby | Dr | Atmospheric flows, computational fluid dynamics, convective clouds, LES modelling |
| Lorna Dougan | Prof | Hierarchical biomechanics; extreme biophysics; water and aqueous solutions; cryopreservation; biomolecular self-assembly; protein folding; extremophiles; single molecule force spectroscopy |
| Valerie Dupont | Dr | Gas solid catalysis, energy efficiency, lean catalytic combustion, low nitrogen emissions, reactor modelling |
| Susanna Ebmeier | Dr | Volcanology, volcanic emissions, source separation, satellite remote sensing |
| Mike Evans | Dr | Complex fluids, viscoelasticity, mathematical modelling, rheometry, mathematical modelling |
| Stephen Evans | Prof | Microbubbles, microfluids, nanoparticles |
| Michael Fairweather | Professor | Turbulence modelling, turbulent reacting flows, turbulent multi-phase flows, nuclear thermal hydraulics, computational fluid dynamics, combustion, slurry flows for waste disposal, experimental hydraulic transport, carbon capture and storage |
| Sam Falle | Professor | Compressible flow, magneto-gas dynamics, detonations, dynamical systems |
| Massimiliano Fasi | Dr | Numerical linear algebra, numerical analysis, computer arithmetic |
| David Ferguson | Dr | Magmatic processes, volcanic processes, volcanic plumes, magmatism within the Earth system |
| Paul Field | Professor | Convection, clouds, precipitation, organised weather systems |
| Quentin Fisher | Professor | Geomechanics, petrophysics, petroleum engineering |
| Louise Fletcher | Dr | Aerobiology, waste management, control of pathogens indoors and outdoors |
| Alan Gadian | Dr | Meteorology, microphysics of clouds, atmospheric numerical modelling, atmospheric dynamics |
| Mojtaba Ghadiri | Professor | Particulate solids, attrition and comminution, droplets, coalescence, supercritical fluid processing spray, granular media, nanopowder processing, agglomeration |
| Carl Gilkeson | Dr | High and low speed aerodynamics, computational fluid dynamics, flow control, flight mechanics, orbital mechanics, aerobiology |
| Emanuel Gloor | Professor | Global carbon cycle, Amazonian climate, atmospheric greenhouse gas measurements, geophysical modelling of atmospheric transport and climate |
| Mohamed Gouiza | Dr | Geological processes, geodynamic/numerical modelling, lithosphere deformation |
| Carlos Grattoni | Dr | Displacement processes in reservoir rocks, low permeability rocks, petrophysical properties and flow, porosity, permeability, capillary pressure |
| John Greenwood | Professor | Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging, percutaneous coronary intervention, myocardial infarction |
| Stephen Griffiths | Dr | Atmospheric flows, internal waves, ocean processes, rotating flows, shallow water flows, stratified flows, magnetohydrodynamics, linear and nonlinear waves, ocean tides, waves in rotating fluids, numerical modelling |
| Bruce Hanson | Prof | Spent fuel management, nuclear materials management , nuclear fuel cycles |
| David Harbottle | Dr | Rheology, colloids, surface chemistry, suspensions, emulsions, surfactant science, multiphase flows |
| Oliver Harlen | Dr | Viscoelasticity, colloids, suspensions, non-Newtonian fluids, inkjet printing, gravity currents, finite element method, lubrication theory, liquid bridges |
| Thomas Hartquist | Professor | Magnetohydrodynamics, dusty plasma, diffuse astrophysical media |
| Ali Hassanpour | Dr | Computational fluid dynamics, distinct element method, granular media, flowability of powders, behaviour of drops under electric field, porosity |
| David Head | Dr | Biofilms, viscoelasticity of fibre networks, computational biophysics |
| Dwayne Heard | Prof | Atmospheric chemistry; field measurements of hydroxyl and other radicals; reaction kinetics and photochemistry; aerosols and heterogeneous chemistry; planetary and interstellar chemistry |
| Peter Heggs | Professor | Boiling, condensation, heat exchangers, heat transfer enhancement |
| Dave Hodgson | Professor | Sedimentology, flux of sediment from continents to oceans |
| Arun Holden | Professor | Computational models of muscular organs, cardiac physiology, uterine physiology, computational cardiac electrophysiology, magnetic resonance imaging |
| Rainer Hollerbach | Professor | Magnetohydrodynamics, dynamo theory, hydrodynamic stability theory |
| David Hughes | Professor | Magnetohydrodynamics, astrophysical fluid dynamics, geophysical fluid dynamics, instability theory, dynamo theory, turbulence, numerical modelling |
| Timothy Hunter | Dr | Ultrasonics, foams, emulsions, surfactants, polymers, suspension rheology |
| Brian Irvine | Dr | Sedimentology, sediment transport, turbulent flow processes, water resource management, flood frequency analysis |
| Masoud Jabbari | Dr | CFD, rheology, porous materials, additive manufacturing, battery manufacturing, battery thermal management |
| Louise Jennings | Prof | Cardiovascular, heart valve replacements, hydrodynamic flow experiments |
| Xiaodong Jia | Dr | Particle-level modelling and simulations, non-spherical particles, discrete element methods, granular flow, powder flowability, porous media, thermal conductives, coating, melting |
| Peter Jimack | Professor | Computational fluid dynamics, finite element methods, multigrid methods, scientific computing |
| Jitse Niesen | Dr | Dynamical systems, numerical analysis |
| Chris Jones | Professor | Astrophysical fluid dynamics, geophysical fluid dynamics, magnetic field generation in the Earth and other planets, thermal convection in rotating and magnetic systems, winds in the giant planets, the solar dynamo, pattern formation |
| Nik Kapur | Professor | Heat transfer, experimental fluid dynamics, computational fluid dynamics, droplets, sprays, coating, material characterisation |
| Terry Kee | Dr | Hydrogels, soft matter, astrobiology |
| Gareth Keevil | Dr | Experimental fluid dynamics, experimental sedimentology, imaging of fluid dynamics, applications of lasers in fluid dynamics, application of particle imaging velocimetry |
| Mark Kelmanson | Professor | Thin-films, coating, ophthalmic flows |
| Evy Kersalé | Dr | Astrophysical fluid dynamics, stellar flows, magnetohydrodynamics |
| Amirul Khan | Dr | Computational fluid dynamics, particle dispersion in turbulent flows, Lattice Boltzmann method, numerical optimisation, medical flow |
| Sepideh Khodaparast | Dr | Experimental fluid mechanics, applied fluid mechanics, microfluids, nanofluids, surfactant science |
| Megan Klaar | Dr | Natural flood management, hydroecology, extreme hydrological events, water resource management |
| Xiaojun Lai | Dr | |
| Daniel Lesnic | Professor | Inverse problems, boundary element method, heat and mass transfer, porous media, critical Stokes number |
| Phil Livermore | Dr | Geophysics, modelling the Earth's core, geomagnetism, numerical modelling |
| Piroska Lorinczi | Dr | Petroleum reservoirs, reservoir simulation, numerical modelling |
| Fleur Loveridge | Dr | Heat decarbonisation, ground heat storage, climate and vegetation interactions, soil permability |
| Alice Macente | Dr | X-ray Microscopy imaging, Fluid-rock interactions, Porous media, Fluid Flow, CO2 sequestration, Correlative Imaging |
| Tariq Mahmud | Dr | Multiscale process modelling, computational fluid dynamics, crystallisation, spray drying |
| Graham Mann | Dr | Stratospheric composition, volcanic impacts on climate, aerosol microphysics modelling, polar stratospheric clouds, mineral dust influences |
| Vernon Manville | Dr | Catastrophic flooding, sedimentology, lahars, debris avalanches |
| Xiaoan Mao | Dr | Experimental fluid dynamics, thermoacoustic energy system, heat exchangers, thermal storage |
| John Marsham | Professor | Tropical meteorology, atmospheric convection, weather and climate, monsoons, land-atmosphere interactions |
| Ben Maybee | Dr | Atmospheric dynamics, Mesoscale Convective Systems, tropical teleconnections |
| Amanda Maycock | Dr | Climate science, climate change, climate modelling, atmospheric dynamics, chemistry-climate interactions |
| Bill McCaffrey | Professor | Clastic sedimentary, sediment transport, experimental modelling, turbidity currents |
| Jim McQuaid | Dr | Atmospheric observations, aerosols, air pollution, climate change |
| Stephen Mobbs | Professor | Mesoscale meteorology, boundary layer dynamics, chemical transport |
| Jon Mound | Dr | Geodynamics, geomagnetism, Earth's core, core-mantle interactions |
| Nigel Mountney | Prof | Geological processes, sedimentology, fluvial processes, numerical modelling |
| Frans Muller | Prof | Kinetic modelling, mixing, multiphase reactions, thixotropic fluids, flow field validation, thermodynamics, flow chemistry, slow flow reactors |
| Andrew Mullis | Professor | Solidification, crystallisation, phase-field simulation |
| Bill Murphy | Dr | Landslides, engineering geology |
| Benjamin Murray | Prof | Atmospheric dynamics, aerosols, clouds, aerosol-cloud interactions |
| Nikolaos Nikitas | Dr | Aerodynamics, aeroelasticity, experimental dynamics |
| Girish Nivarti | Dr | Rotating convection, turbulent zonal jets, flame propagation, scalar transport |
| Catherine Noakes | Professor | Indoor air quality, airborne infection, ventilation, building performance, computational fluid dynamics, air quality and pollution, decontamination, bioaerosols, health impacts, risk models |
| Daya Pandey | Dr | Bioenergy, Biofuels, Energy Systems, Reactor Modelling and Thermofluids |
| Doug Parker | Professor | Meteorology, weather and climate, convective storms, tropical meteorology, monsoons, atmospheric dynamics, gravity currents, baroclinic flows, air/sea interactions, waves in rotating fluids, marine transport, quasi-geostrophic flows, topographic effects, air quality and pollution |
| Jeff Peakall | Professor | Sedimentology, particle-laden flows, experimental fluid dynamics, submarine channels, injectites |
| Sam Pegler | Dr | Viscous dynamics, glacial mechanics, porous media, free-boundary problems, fluid-structure interactions |
| Sandra Piazolo | Professor | Geological processes, fluid-rock interaction, numerical modelling, experiments |
| Julian Pittard | Dr | Colliding stellar winds, computational fluid dynamics, dynamics of the interstellar medium, star formation, stellar feedback |
| Colin Pitts | Dr | Water pollution |
| Sven Plein | Professor | Biomedical imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, cardiology, cardiovascular disease |
| Arash Rabbani | Dr | Fluid flow modelling in porous media, 3-D image segmentation, machine learning, Digital reconstruction and characterisation of porous material. |
| Thomas Ranner | Dr | Finite element methods, moving interfaces, free boundary problems, undulatory locomotion of microswimmers |
| Alex Rap | Dr | Aerosol radiative forcing, ozone radiative forcing, biosphere-atmosphere interactions, contrails |
| Simon Rees | Dr | Geothermal heating and cooling, energy and renewable systems, thermal energy storage, room hwat transfer |
| Hugh Rice | Dr | Acoustic backscatter, order lattice theory, doppler and time-domain velocimetry, in-line rheometry, numerical methods, mathematical modelling |
| Mark Richardson | Dr | Computational fluid dynamics, environmental modelling, multiphase flows, numerical modelling, high performance computing, parallel computing |
| Ralf Richter | Dr | Physical chemistry of biological systems, biointerfaces, soft biological matter, cell dynamics, cell adhesion under flow |
| Andrew Ross | Dr | Bioenergy, hydrothermal processing of biomass, biofuels |
| Andrew Ross | Dr | Atmospheric dynamics, boundary-layer meteorology, mountain meteorology, land-atmosphere interactions, convection over orography, fog formation, gravity currents, cold pools, tropical cyclones |
| Alastair Rucklidge | Prof | Pattern formation, Faraday waves, nonlinear dynamics, chaotic dynamics |
| David Russell | Honorary Clinical Associate Professor | Wound healing, lower limb revascularisation |
| Ali Sarrami Fouroushani | Dr | Cardiovascular Biomechanics; Biofluids; Biotransport; Thrombosis; Medical Device; In-silico Clinical Trials; Computational Fluid Dynamics; Finite Element Methods; Uncertainty Quantification |
| Jurgen Schneider | Prof | Magnetic resonance imaging, diffusion MRI |
| Juliane Schwendike | Dr | Tropical meteorology, tropical cyclones, convection, high-impact weather, monsoons, large-scale circulations |
| Julian Scott | Prof | Cardiovascular imaging, magnetic resonance imaging, Diffusion MRI |
| Andrew Shires | Dr | Aerodynamics, wing design, wind tunnel test techniques, flow control techniques |
| Andrew Sleigh | Dr | Computational fluid dynamics, river flow, flood modelling, wastewater treatment |
| Mark Smith | Dr | Rivers, floods, hydrology, glaciers |
| Stephen Smye | Prof | Mathematical models in medicine and biology, magnetic resonance imaging, electroporation, aerosol physics, reactive hyperaemia |
| Paul Stewart | Professor | Cardiovascular science, metabolism, endocrinology |
| Rob Sturman | Dr | Fluid mixing, dynamical systems |
| Jon Summers | Dr | Coating, wetting, mixing, thin films, thermal management of data centres |
| Harvey Thompson | Professor | Computational fluid dynamics, heat transfer, optimisation, two phase flow, printing, drying, coating |
| Steven Tobias | Professor | Dynamo theory, Bernard convection, moist convection, plumes, Taylor-Couette flow, double diffusive convection, waves in rotating fluids, magneto convection, vortex dynamics, chaos, turbulence, instabilities, mixing and dispersion, computational methods |
| Alison Tomlin | Professor | Combustion, air quality, renewable energy technologies, small-scale wind energy, renewable fuels in transport |
| Mark Trigg | Dr | Water related risk, hydrodynamics, hydrology, rivers, flood plains, flood hazard, modelling, remote sensing |
| Charalampos Tsoumpas | Dr | Tomographic imaging, medical imaging, positron emission tomography, computational modelling |
| Sven Van Loo | Dr | Hydrodynamics, magnetohydrodynamics, dusty plasma, star formation, numerical simulations |
| Mark Walkley | Dr | Computational modelling, finite element method, mesh generation, time integration, parallel computing |
| Mi Wang | Professor | Process tomography and sensing, complex process and multiphase flow measurement and imaging |
| Chris Wareing | Dr | Computational fluid dynamics, astrophysical fluid dynamics, magnetohydrodynamics |
| Mark Wilson | Dr | Multiphase flows, drops, breakup and coalescence, drag reduction, capillary flows, free surface flows, thin flims, lubrication theory, wetting, printing, coating |
| Kejun Wu | Dr | Microfluids, experimental fluid mechanics, computational fluid dynamics, ionic liquids, heat and mass transfer |
| Bao Hua Xu | Dr | |
| Junfeng Yang | Dr | Thermofluids, combustion kinetics, flame propagation, spray physics, engine combustion, turbulence, complex multiphase flow, heat and mass transfer |
| Bruce Yardley | Professor | Crustal fluid compositions, formation of hydrothermal ores, water residence in the deep crust, fluid-rock interactions |