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 engineering, and soft matter. He is a Senior Lecturer in Engineering Mathematics at the University of Bristol. 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. Matt joined Bristol in 2021.
Current members
Peter Lewin-Jones is a post-doc working on multi-scale modelling of polyelecrolyte gels
Matthew Ghosh is a DPhil student based in Oxford that will be developing mathematical models of gelation and degradation of poroelastic materials. Matthew is co-supervised by Sarah Waters and Andreas Muench.
Yaojue Xiong is a PhD student who is studying evaporation-driven fracture of colloidal fluids. Yaojue is co-supervised by Stuart Thomson.
Will Simpkins is a PhD student who is modelling the snapping of thin, morphable structures. Will is co-supervised by Matteo Taffetani.
Jasper Knox is a PhD student working on modelling biological condensates. He is co-supervised by Andreas Muench and Giulia Celora.
Jake Bowhay is a PhD student working on chemo-mechanical modelling of cell polarity. He is co-supervised by Alan Champneys.
Gunay Hummatova is an MSc student working on modelling phase separation in the context of organic solar cell fabrication.
Former PhD students
Simon Finney - Modelling and simulation of fluid flow around poroelastic particles with application to liver therapy
Former UG and PGT students
Ben Hallett - Optimisation of hydrogel-based drug-delivery systems (MEng project)
Miles Weedon - Using machine-learning surrogate models to calculate magnetic shape factors (MEng project)
Asmaa Slim - Modelling and simulation of shrinkage during 3D printing (MSc project)
Jasper Knox - Modelling and simulation of phase separation in biological fluids (MSc project)
Amy Williams - Optimisation of drug-delivery systems using physics-informed neural networks (MEng project)
Jack Gurney - Spin-coating of polymer mixtures (MEng project)
Jacob Short - Mathematical modelling of dual-wavelength 3D printing (MSc project)
Keatan Gill - Short-circuit detection in batteries using machine learning (MEng project)
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)
Haolin Yang - Drying-induced stresses in poroelastic materials (MSc project)
Sally Jones - Nonlinear viscoelastic modelling of hydrogels (MMath project)
Natalie Woods - Transient swelling of hydrogels (MMath project)
Benedict Fellows - Heat transport in nanowires (undergraduate summer project)
Elizabeth Hayman - Using phase-change materials to cool lithium-ion batteries (EPSRC-funded summer project)