​Serafim Bakalis 
School of Chemical Engineering,
University of Birmingham, UK
personal webpage
  • Research interests related to SIG: physical and numerical modelling in environmental and nano fluids.
  • Relevant activities: computational modelling of porous media. Moving boundary problems. Moving mesh methods. Application to spreading liquids and contamination.
Mike Baines
School of Mathematical Physical and Computational Sciences
University of Reading, UK
personal webpage
  • Research interests related to SIG: physical and numerical modelling in environmental and nano fluids.
  • Relevant activities: computational modelling of porous media. Moving boundary problems. Moving mesh methods. Application to spreading liquids and contamination.
Lorenzo Botto
School of Engineering and Materials Science
Queen Mary University of London, UK
personal webpage
  • Research interests related to SIG: interaction of solid particles with bubbles and droplets; simulation and experiments on river flocs (both naturally-occurring and for water purification); capillary flows in textiles – X-ray visualization and theory.
  • Relevant activities: fluid mechanics of nanostructured materials (particularly deformable nanoparticles in suspension) & computational multiphase flow DNS.
Chris Breward
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford, UK
personal webpage
  • Research interests related to SIG: mathematical modelling of industrial processes.
  • Relevant activities: fluid mechanics and mass transport of agents and cleansers in porous media.
Gregory de Boer
School of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Leeds
personal webpage
John Chew
Department of Chemical Engineering
University of Bath, UK
personal webpage
  • Research interests related to SIG: fluid dynamics in domestic and industrial cleaning.
  • Relevant activities: computational modelling of cleaning with bubbles; estimation of yield stress of soft solids using computational fluid dynamics.
Rob Chilcott
School of Life and Medical Sciences
University of Hertfordshire, UK
personal webpage
  • Research interests related to SIG: chemical decontamination.
  • Relevant activities: various in vitro, in vivo, human volunteer and structural models for evaluating decontamination methods.
Vincent Cregan
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Limerick, Ireland
Personal webpage
  • Research interests related to SIG: Cleaning in the pharmaceutical industry, fluid dynamics, surface tension problems.
  • Relevant activities: Nanoscience problems, heat transfer, phase change phenomena, diffusion processes.
Stuart Clarke
BP Institute and Department of Chemistry
University of Cambridge, UK
personal webpage
  • Research interests related to SIG: experimental surface, interface and colloid science.
  • Relevant activities: surfactant behaviour, measurement of surface chemistry.
Mohit Dalwadi
Synthetic Biology Research Centre
University of Nottingham, UK
personal webpage
  • Research interests related to SIG: modelling of chemical decontamination, fluid mechanics, and industrial processes.
  • Relevant activities: fluid mechanics and mass transport in porous media, surface reactions, moving boundary problems, reaction-diffusion processes.
Stuart Dalziel
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
University of Cambridge, UK
personal webpage
  • Research interests related to SIG: experimental fluid mechanics.
  • Relevant activities: film flow, impinging jet, convective mass transfer from a drop to film flow at surfaces and in capillary fractures.
Merlin Etzold
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics
University of Cambridge, UK
personal webpage
  • Research interests related to SIG: chemical decontamination of building materials.
  • Relevant activities: experiments and simulations of the decontamination process in material fractures.
Walter Federle
Department of Zoology
University of Cambridge, UK
personal webpage
  • Research interests related to SIG: animal and plant biomechanics.
  • Relevant activities: bio-adhesion, self-cleaning, anti-adhesive ultra-hydrophobic or superhydrophilic surfaces in nature, biomechanics of insect cleaning structures.
Ian Griffiths
Mathematical Institute,
University of Oxford
personal webpage
Cameron Hall
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
University of Limerick, Ireland
  • Research interests related to SIG: modelling of chemical decontamination and other industrial processes.
  • Relevant activities: modelling of reactions at phase boundaries; mass transport coupled with reactions.
Nik Kapur
School of Mechanical Engineering
University of Leeds, UK
personal webpage
  • Research interests related to SIG: fluid mechanics of manufacturing processes.
  • Relevant activities: experimental and computational studies of jets and droplets. Rheology of soft solid materials including industrially relevant polymer and waxes.
Kristian Kiradjiev
Mathematical Institute
University of Oxford, UK
personal webpage
  • Research interests related to SIG: mathematical modelling of industrial processes.
  • Relevant activities: fluid mechanics and mass transfer in thin-film spreading, chemical filters, porous media, reaction-diffusion phenomena.
Andrew Lacey
School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences
Heriot-Watt University, UK
personal webpage
  • Research interests related to SIG: industrial fluid mechanics.
  • Relevant activities: mathematical modelling of thin-film flow, of flow in porous media, and of diffusion processes.
Julien Landel
School of Mathematics
University of Manchester, UK
personal webpage
  • Research interests related to SIG: environmental and industrial fluid mechanics (mathematical and experimental modelling).
  • Relevant activities: film flow, impinging jet, convective mass transfer from a drop to film flow at surfaces and in capillary fractures.
Alex Lukyanov
School of Mathematical Physical and Computational Sciences,
University of Reading
personal webpage
  • Research interests related to SIG: Environmental fluid mechanics, capillary and nano-flows
  • Relevant activities: Transport in porous media, moving contact lines (macro-microscopic levels), dynamics of complex interfaces.
Peter Martin 
School of Chemical Engineering and Analytical Science,
University of Manchester
personal webpage
  • Research interests related to SIG: Nanomaterials and composites for environmental detoxification
  • Relevant activities: Nanocatalyst synthesis, preparing/characterizing composite materials, catalyst immobilization, fluid flow in porous materials, detoxifying aqueous solutions, photocatalytic reactions of organic materials.
Omar Matar
Department of Chemical Engineering,
Imperial College London
personal webpage
  • Research interests related to SIG: Multiphase flows (modelling, simulations and experiments)
  • Relevant activities: Numerical simulations of two-phase flows in the presence of heat transfer, phase change, non-Newtonian rheology, and moving contact lines.
Draga Pihler-Puzovic
School of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Manchester
personal webpage
  • Research interests related to SIG: experiments and theory of multiphase displacement flows
  • Relevant activities: experiments and simulations of fingering instabilities in two-phase flows in elastic-walled and rigid-walled Hele-Shaw cells.
Joe Quarini 
Department of Mechanical Engineering,
University of Bristol
personal webpage
  • Research interests related to SIG: Fluid mechanics of phase changing materials
  • Relevant activities: Transient thermal hydraulic performance of phase-changing flowing slurries in complex topology containment structures.
Steven Wang
School of Engineering
Newcastle University, UK
personal webpage
  • Research interests related to SIG: multiphase flows (experiments), solid-liquid separation
  • Relevant activities: phase change, bubbles.
Andrew Wheatley
Department of Chemistry
University of Cambridge, UK
personal webpage
  • Research interests related to SIG: Nanomaterials and composites for environmental detoxification
  • Relevant activities: Nanocatalyst synthesis, preparing/characterizing composite materials, catalyst immobilization, fluid flow in porous materials, detoxifying aqueous solutions, photocatalytic reactions of organic materials.
Ian Wilson
Department of Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology
University of Cambridge, UK
personal webpage
  • Research interests related to SIG: rheology modelling and experimental studies of fouling and cleaning.
  • Relevant activities: flows created by impinging liquid jets; pulsed flow cleaning; rheology of soft solids; adhesion; surface treatment.
Zhihua Xie
School of Engineering
Cardiff University
personal webpage
  • Research interests related to SIG: Computational fluid dynamics, turbulence modelling, multiphase flows, and water waves
  • Relevant activities: flows created by impinging liquid jets; Breaking waves, turbulent interfacial flows, liquid film flow, bubbles, droplet impact, jet