Visiting faculty

Àlex Ferrer.
Visiting Oct 2022 to Oct 2023, funded by a grant from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and the Catalan government.

Postdoctoral research associates

Duygu Sap.
Funded on EPSRC grant PRISM: Platform for Research in Simulation Methods.

Jack Betteridge.
Funded on EPSRC grant SysGenX: Composable software generation for system-level simulation at Exascale.

DPhil students

Gonzalo Gonzalez de Diego.
Topic: contact problems in glaciology.
Co-supervised with Ian Hewitt.

   

Pablo Brubeck.
Topic: preconditioners for spectral/hp discretisations.

   

Boris Andrews.
Topic: numerical bifurcation analysis of natural convection.
Co-supervised with Wayne Arter.

Aaron Baier-Reinio.
Topic: discretisations for multicomponent flow.

   

India Marsden.
Topic: compiler techniques for exotic finite element discretisations.

   

Umberto Zerbinati.
Topic: modelling and discretisation of smectic liquid crystals.

   

DPhil graduates

Florian Wechsung.
Topic: shape optimisation and robust solvers for incompressible flow. DPhil viva: 2019-09-23.
Next step: a postdoc with Georg Stadler at NYU.

   

Matteo Croci.
Topic: multilevel Monte Carlo methods for uncertainty quantification in brain simulations. DPhil viva: 2020-01-20.
Co-supervised with Mike Giles and Marie Rognes.
Next step: a postdoc with Mike Giles in Oxford, then with Karen Willcox at UT Austin.

   

Hamza Alawiye.
Topic: Wrinkling instabilities: modelling, analysis and computation. DPhil viva: 2020-09-25.
Co-supervised with Alain Goriely.
Next step: a Heilbronn fellowship at the University of Bristol.

   

Pablo Alexei Gazca Orozco.
Topic: Numerical analysis of implicitly constituted incompressible fluids: mixed formulations. DPhil viva: 2020-10-19.
Co-supervised with Endre Süli.
Next step: a postdoc with Enrique Zuazua in Erlangen-Nuremberg.

   

Jingmin Xia.
Topic: Computational and analytical aspects of energy minimisation problems in cholesteric, ferronematic and smectic liquid crystals. DPhil viva: 2021-06-01.
Next step: a permanent lectureship at the National University of Defense Technology in Changsha, China.

   

Ioannis Papadopoulos.
Topic: Computing multiple solutions of topology optimization problems. DPhil viva: 2021-09-24.
Co-supervised with Endre Süli. Next step: a postdoc with Sheehan Olver at Imperial College London.

   

Nicolas Boullé.
Topic: Data-driven discovery of Green's functions. DPhil viva: 2022-08-30.
Co-supervised with Marie Rognes and Alex Townsend. Next step: an INI-Simons Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Cambridge.

   

Fabian Laakmann.
Topic: Discretisations and preconditioners for magnetohydrodynamics models. DPhil viva: 2022-09-20.
Next step: backpacking in southeast Asia.

   

Francis Aznaran.
Topic: Discretisation of Hodge Laplacians in the elasticity complex. DPhil viva: 2022-09-28.
Co-supervised with Endre Süli. Next step: an independent EPSRC postdoctoral position in the Mathematical Institute.

   

Alexander Van-Brunt.
Topic: Finite element methods for the Onsager-Stefan-Maxwell equations. DPhil viva: 2022-10-07.
Co-supervised with Charles Monroe. Next step: Research engineer at Bosch, Sunnyvale, California.

   

Postdoctoral alumni

Thomas Roy.
Postdoctoral topic: nonlinear solvers in reservoir models.
Next step: a postdoc with Victor Beck, then an appointment as Staff Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

   

Alberto Paganini.
Postdoctoral topic: shape optimisation.
Next steps: a departmental lectureship in Oxford, then a permanent lectureship at the University of Leicester.

   

Teresa Kyrke-Smith.
Postdoctoral topic: inverse problems in glaciology, co-advised with Hilmar Gudmundsson at the British Antarctic Survey.
Next step: HM Civil Service.

   

Other alumni and visitors

Panos Kevrekidis.
Topic: bifurcation analysis of Bose-Einstein condensates.
2019 Leverhulme Visiting Professorship.

   

Geoffrey Gachemi.
Topic: goal-oriented error estimation in bifurcation analysis.
2021 Summer project funded by a Mfano Africa virtual mentorship. Next step: continuing as a lecturer at the Technical University of Kenya.

   

Isaac Newell.
Topic: bifurcation analysis of two coupled 3D Bose-Einstein condensates.
2021 Summer project funded by an LMS Undergraduate Research Bursary. Next step: a DPhil scholarship at the Mathematical Institute with Luc Nguyen and Gui-Qiang Chen.