We have been busy! We are pleased to announce three new publications in The Journal of Physical Chemistry C (Abdullah, Sree Hari, and Rohit), Physical Review E (Yichong and Livio), and Nano Letters (Saikat and Rohit)!

These research projects each employ high-fidelity Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations to explore non-trivial non-equilibrium phenomena, which would not be possible with more conventional continuum-based modelling. Stay tuned for more papers on the way!

We are delighted to announce that Sarah Davidson passed her PhD viva with minor corrections! Her thesis: Mesoscopic Modelling of Membrane-Fluid Interactions using Peridynamics: Application to Deformable and Fracturing Beams modelled the action of 2D bicuspid valves, in veins of the leg, using a coupled Peridynamics (PD), Immersed Boundary (IB), and cascaded lattice Boltzmann method (CLBM), and investigated the adverse resulting flow conditions with damaged and aging valve tissue.

Congratulations again to Dr Sarah Davidson, and we wish her all the best for the future!

We are delighted to welcome Thejas Hulikal Chakrapani and Taher Meydando into mfX. Thejas joins us as a PDRA investigating heat transfer at solid-fluid interfaces, having completed his PhD at the University of Twente. Taher joins us a 1st year PhD student, and will perform MD simulations of nanobubble cavitation under electric fields. We look forward to working with them both, and excited to see how they progress!

Sreehari has been successfully appointed as Assistant Professor at Indian Institute of Technology, Madras! Congratulations to Sreehari!

Abdullah passed his PhD viva today with minor corrections! That’s two in quick succession. Congratulations are in order to Dr. Abdullah El-Rifai.

Yichong passed his PhD viva today with minor corrections! Congratulations are in order to Dr. Yichong Chen.

Abdullah also has obtained a position in the Faculty AI Fellowship program for 2024! He starts in October 2024.

Saikat has ben successfully appointed as Senior Lecturer at Swansea University! Congratulations to Saikat, and he will commence his new role in January 2025 at the end of his Fellowship.

Pengxu won the award for Best Poster at the School of Engineering PGR Conference 2024, at the University of Edinburgh in April, keeping up our research group’s strong track record for winning awards at this conference since 2018!

Abdullah’s work on interfacial thermal conductance between solids and liquids has been published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry C! Congratulations to Abdullah for the first publication of his PhD.

Patrick and Duncan have been featured in an article on the university website, link here!

Shaokang’s work on inertio-thermal vapour bubble modelling has been published in JFM! Congratulations to Shaokang for the first publication of his PhD.

Carlos passed his PhD viva today with no corrections! Congratulations are in order to Dr. Carlos Corral-Casas.

Saikat has won his first grant as PI, a £50,000 HPC grant to run ice nucleation simulations on CIRRUS, along with Pengxu.

Patrick passed his PhD viva today with minor corrections! Congratulations are in order to Dr. Patrick Sullivan.

Patrick’s work on inertio-thermal vapour bubble modelling has been published in JFM! Congratulations to Patrick for the first publication of his PhD.

Pengxu Chen has joined mfX as a PhD Student, and will be working with Saikat and Rohit on understanding nanoscale acoustofluidics. Welcome Pengxu!

Duncan has won the highly-prestigious 5-year RAEng Research Fellowship for his proposal on using bulk nanobubbles for water disinfection Congratulations to Duncan, the full announcement by RAEng is here.

Carlos’s work on disappearance of Knudsen mimimum in confined flows has been published in JFM! Congratulations to Carlos for his second PhD publication.

Yichong’s work on scattering kernels for kerogen has been published in Fuel! Congratulations to Yichong for the first publication of his PhD.

Sina is promoted to Senior Lecturer. Congratulations, Sina!

Martin’s recent work on seeded MD of surface icing has been published in Journal of Chemical Physics, and a separate book chapter by Springer Press! Congratulations to Martin, and you can see his paper here, and book chapter at this link.

Sritay’s recent work on boron nitride and carbon nanotube modelling has been published in Nanoscale! Congratulations to Sritay, and you can see his paper here.

Giorgos Tatsios has joined mfX as a PDRA, and will be working with Matthew and Livio on their new EPSRC project. Welcome Giorgos!

Carlos’s recent paper in Physics of Fluids has been higlighted as Editor’s pick! Congratulations to Carlos, and you can read his paper here.

Shaokang Li has joined mfX as a PhD student, to work with Professor Yonghao Zhang. Welcome Shaokang!

Saikat and Sreehari have both won Early Career Fellowships from the Leverhulme Trust! These prestigious fellowships are awarded across the sciences, arts, and the humanities. Huge congratulations to the duo!

Patrick won the Best Poster prize at the School PGR conference today in a strong field of 200+ candidates! A well-deserved congratulations to Patrick!

mfX welcomes two new PhD students, Yichong Chen and Abdullah El-Rifai, who will be working with Matthew and Rohit, respectively. Welcome Yichong and Abdullah!

Sreehari’s paper on the molecular physics of jumping nanodroplets amade the front cover of Nanoscale. Congratulations to Sreehari and Matthew!

Professor Yonghao Zhang has joined University of Edinburgh as the inaugural Jason Reese Chair in Multiscale Fluid Mechanics, while Dr. Sina Haeri also joins as Lecturer. Welcome Yonghao and Sina to the newly-created mfX group!