People
Meet the members of the CFM Lab
Principal investigator
Matt Hennessy leads the CFM Lab. His research interests lie at the interface of applied maths, materials science, and soft matter. He has been a Lecturer in Engineering Mathematics at the University of Bristol since 2021. Matt is passionate about using maths to solve real-world problems arising in industry, and he is a Knowledge Exchange Champion for the UK Knowledge Exchange Hub for Mathematical Sciences
Matt obtained a BSc in Physics and Applied Mathematics from Ontario Tech University. He then completed an MSc in Mathematical Modelling and Scientific Computing and a DPhil in Applied Mathematics at the University of Oxford. He then held a post-doc position in the Department of Chemical Engineering at Imperial College London, followed by a Marie Curie-Skłodowska Fellowship at the Centre de Recerca Matematica in Barcelona, and then returned to Oxford to take up a Hooke Research Fellowship.
Group members
Yaojue Xiong
Yaojue is a PhD student who is studying evaporation-driven fracture of colloidal fluids. Yaojue is co-supervised by Stuart Thomson.
Simon Finney
Simon is developing models to understand the mechanical stresses experienced by hydrogel-coated stem cells in transit to the liver. He is a DPhil student in Oxford co-supervised by Sarah Waters and Andreas Münch.
Will Simpkins
Will is a PhD student who is modelling the snapping of thin, morphable structures. Will is co-supervised by Matteo Taffetani.
Keatan Gill
Keatan is an MEng student who is working on using machine learning to detect an internal short circuit lithium-ion battery packs.
Amy Williams
Amy is an MEng student who is studying the optimisation of hydrogel-based drug-delivery system using physics-informed neural networks.
Jack Gurney
Jack’s MEng project focuses on modelling the spin-coating of polymer fluids with application to the production of organic solar cells.
Jacob Short
Jacob is an MSc student who is developing mathematical models for dual-wavelength 3D printing.
Jasper Knox
Jasper is an MSc student who is using modelling and simulations to study phase separation of biological fluids.
Past group members
Nicoletta Lambrou - Using physics-informed neural networks to simulate 3D printing (MSc project).
James Webb - Evaporation-driven phase separation of polymer solutions (MEng project).
Matthew Penn - Optimisation of hydrogel-based drug-delivery systems (MMath project).
Hriday Poduval - Modelling hydrogel-based drug-delivery systems (MSc project).
Matthew Ghosh - Derivation of poroelastic shell theories (summer research project).
Charlie Risdale - Modelling short circuits in lithium-ion batteries (BEng project).
Oviya Kumanan - Swelling of spherical hydrogels (MMath project).
Ryan Salter - Finite-element simulations of heat flow in nanowires (MMath project).
Rebecca Dodd - Anisotropic hydrogels for artificial cartilage (MMath project).
Daniel Guest - One-phase reduction of Stefan problems (MMath project).
Barbora Snaraite - Joule heating in nanowires (MSc project).
Natalie Woods - Transient swelling of hydrogels (MMath project).
Sally Jones - Nonlinear viscoelastic modelling of hydrogels (MMath project).
Haolin Yang - Drying-induced stresses in poroelastic materials (MSc project).
Elizabeth Hayman - Using phase-change materials to cool lithium-ion batteries (EPSRC-funded summer project).
Benedict Fellows - Heat transport in nanowires (undergraduate summer project).