I am a computational engineering scientist at the University of Edinburgh, exploring the nanoscale world through simulation. My research combines molecular dynamics with continuum mechanics to understand how droplets move, how surfaces clean themselves, and how heat flows at interfaces.
Current focus areas include boiling and evaporation at nanoscale surfaces, ice nucleation and icephobic surface design, nanoscale heat transfer at solid-liquid interfaces, and machine learning potentials for molecular simulations.
I lead a research group primarily funded by an ERC Starting Grant (NANO-COOL, 2024-2029) investigating nanomaterial-enhanced cooling for extreme thermal management. Published in Physical Review Letters, Nano Letters, and Journal of Fluid Mechanics. Research featured in BBC, The Times, Metro, and The Conversation.
Nanoscale insights into vibration-induced heterogeneous ice nucleation Nanoscale surface effects on heterogeneous vapor bubble nucleation Spectral mechanisms of solid/liquid interfacial heat transfer in the presence of a meniscus Contaminant Removal Using Vibrating Surfaces: Nanoscale Insights and a Universal Scaling Law Unraveling the Regimes of Interfacial Thermal Conductance at a Solid/Liquid Interface Rolling and Sliding Modes of Nanodroplet Spreading: Molecular Simulations and a Continuum Approach The role of surface wettability on the growth of vapour bubbles Contaminant Removal from Nature's Self-Cleaning Surfaces Inertio-thermal vapour bubble growth Impact of surface nanostructure and wettability on interfacial ice physics Untangling the physics of water transport in boron nitride nanotubes Acoustothermal Nucleation of Surface Nanobubbles Coupling Molecular Dynamics and Direct Simulation Monte Carlo using a general and high-performance code coupling library Acoustothermal Atomization of Water Nanofilms Dynamics of Nanodroplets on Vibrating Surfaces