Background

Born in Bedford, attended Sharnbrook Upper School. BSc (Hons) in Physics obtained from University of Manchester and PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Birmingham. Joined Loughborough University in 1997.

School Research Group

Optical Engineering

Research Interests and Activities

Experimental techniques for granular flows
Development of kinetic theory models for granular flows
Stress propagation in granular packs
Design of pharmaceutical delivery systems
Optical methods for complex materials such as foodstuffs and lacquers
Design of protective equipment for sports

External Activities

• Professional affiliation: Fellow of the Institution of Physics

• International conferences: Session Chair / Session Organiser at the World Congress for Particle Technology 5 2006; Technical Committee member for Particle Size Analysis 2005 and World Congress of Chemical Engineering 2005; Session Chair for the World Congress for Particle Technology 4 2002; Conference Chair for the upcoming joint Isaac Newton Institute/Institute of Mathematics and its Applications workshop on Dense Granular Flows, Cambridge Jan 2009

• Invited lectures: Dynamics Days, Loughborough July 2007; Gordon Conference on Granular and Granular-Fluid Flow, Oxford June 2006; From gases to glasses in granular matter: Thermodynamic and hydrodynamic aspects. CECAM Workshop, Ecole Normale Supérieure Lyon Aug 2005; Granular gases Theory - Experiment - Simulation. CECAM Workshop Aug 2005, Ecole Normale Supérieure Lyon Aug 2002

• Invited workshops: Granular Physics Workshop, April-June 2005 Kavli Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of California at Santa Barbara; Granular materials trimester, Institute Henri Poincare, Paris Feb-March 2005; Isaac Newton Institute Programme, Particle Laden Flow, Cambridge Dec 2003; IFPRI, Workshop on Dense Granular Flow, Bremen, Germany 2004; BNFL Powder flow workshop, Seascale UK 2004; Heraeus Workshop on Granular Gases, Bad-Honnef, Germany 1999; NATO ASI on Dynamics: Models and Kinetic Methods for Non-equilibrium Many Body Systems, Leiden, Netherlands 1999

• Invited papers in International journals: KONA Powder and Particle 2002, Powder Technology 2007.

• Referee for Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Physical Review E, Physics Review Letters, Measurement Science and Technology, Powder Technology.

• Collaborative Research: International collaborations with Cornell University, USA, Duquesne University, USA, University of Colorado, USA, Indian Institute of Science, India.

Awards

• 2002-2007 EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship

Publications

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