Profile
Background:
The research in my PhD was into the use of high fidelity turbulence modelling to simulate the flow fields resulting from the cooling of cut back trailing edges. For this project, I worked with Rolls-Royce and was supervised by Prof. Paul Tucker at the University of Cambridge. After completing my PhD in 2013, I continued to work with Paul as a research associate, working on several turbomachinery projects, including convoluted intake ducts, fan modelling for ultra high bypass engines, and, more generally, developing numerical methods.
While at Cambridge, I joined Rolls-Royce as a Knowledge Transfer Fellow, helping to bring some of the outputs from my research in house to extend the capabilities of their CFD solver, Hydra. I also joined Murray Edwards College as a Bye Fellow, and was Director of Studies for their undergraduate engineers.
In 2018, I moved to Northern Ireland to take up a lectureship at Queen’s University, Belfast, where I was able to take my research and apply it to a wider range of problems, including areas such as energy storage and renewable energy generation. I moved back to England in 2021, and joined Loughborough, where I hope to be able to continue to apply my research in advanced numerical methods to problems in the aerospace and automotive sectors, as well as to green technology such as flow batteries and wind and wave power generation.
Qualifications:
- 2018-2021: Queen’s University, Belfast
- Postgraduate Certificate in Higher Education Teaching
- 2009-2013: University of Cambridge (Peterhouse)
- PhD in Aerospace Engineering (Supervisor: Prof. Paul Tucker)
- 2005-2009: University of Cambridge (Peterhouse)
- MEng in Engineering (Aerospace)