Welcome

I am a postdoc in fluid mechanics at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada. Officially, I am also affiliated with KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.

My research is at the intersection of complex fluids, multiphase flow, and active matter. Specifically, I study dense particle suspensions – the “simplest” complex fluids that display a multitude of interesting phenomena such as self-organization, enhanced diffusion, or even “superfluidic” rheologies. The main question my research tries to answer is “How do hydrodynamic interactions affect those behaviors?” Addressing this question is not only of fundamental physical interest (nonequilibrium statistical mechanics), but also has practical implications in applications as diverse as directed drug delivery and biofuel production.

I develop and use advanced numerical solvers to simulate the dynamics of complex and active fluids. The programs I use are all open-source (see the Github page) and I am happy to help if you have any questions.

Profile

• Current position: Postdoctoral research fellow
• Hosts: Profs. Gwynn Elfring (UBC) and Shervin Bagheri (KTH)
• Research areas: Complex fluids, Multiphase flow, Active matter
• Methodology: Computational

Gallery

Chaotic mixing of an active suspension of “shakers” at 40% volume fraction due to hydrodynamic interactions.

Droplets in homogeneous shear turbulence. Volume fraction 5%, Weber number 4 (based on the Taylor microscale).