The people in the room

Viscoelastic flows, bursting bubbles, and respiratory drops. Co-advised with Detlef Lohse.

Inertial contact lines and drop retraction on complex surfaces. Co-advised with Detlef Lohse.

Surfactant dynamics, dissipative anomaly, soft wetting. KHMW Young Talent Award 2025.

Soft impact — liquid drops and elastic beads. First author on the March 2026 Soft Matter cover article.

Long-running collaboration on drop impact, viscoelastic flows, dissipative anomaly, and electrolysis — co-author on 10+ papers.

Elastic sheets, viscoelasticity vs. elasticity, surfactant dynamics, spinning pizza.

Electrolysis, bubble coalescence, swimming bubbles. Joint Nat. Commun. paper (2025) on H₂-bubble electrolyte spraying.

Plastocapillarity and viscoplastic flows. Co-author on the viscoplastic bubble-bursting and EVP-medium papers.

Experimental validation of impact regimes; soft impact of elastic beads. Hosts regular Lausanne visits.

Holey sheets and numerical methods for non-Newtonian fluids in Basilisk. Co-supervises Ayush Dixit.

Die-swelling and viscoelastic flows; long-running collaboration on non-Newtonian rheology.

Contact line, drop impact, superhydrophobic surfaces — the experimental counterpart to our DNS of receding contact angles.

Drop impact and sheet retraction experiments.

Colloidal systems, evaporation, and shell formation inside evaporating droplets.

Surfactant dynamics in free-surface flows, dissipative anomaly, sliding drops. Developer of pyoomph.

Non-Newtonian flows, bubble bursting, Herschel–Bulkley fluids, elastic coating.

Open-source code development and non-coalescence impacts.

Elastic coating and bursting-bubble experiments.

Surfactant dynamics and viscoelastic drop impact.

Waves and dissipative anomaly in two-phase flow.

Mycofluidic transport — fluid dynamics inside fungal networks.

Multiscale simulation, ice nucleation and removal, hydrogen storage.

Drop-impact experiments; co-author on the bouncing-drop and viscous-film impact papers.

Electrolysis, bubble coalescence, swimming bubbles — co-author on the Nat. Commun. H₂-bubble spraying paper.

Elastic sheets and spinning-pizza dynamics.

Electrolysis, bubble coalescence, swimming bubbles. Recent co-author on the Worthington-jet viscoelasticity paper.

Elastoviscoplastic flows and bursting bubbles. First author of the JFM 2024 bursting-bubble cover article.

Viscoelastic flows and drop impact; co-author on the Worthington-jet JFM paper.

Interfacial soft matter and wafer bonding — local Durham collaboration on solid–liquid interfaces.

Where Langmuir–Blodgett meets Landau–Levich plate withdrawal — biomolecular thin-film interfaces.

Finished his MPhys project on Bretherton drops and bubbles in April 2026 — the first undergraduate researcher at the Durham location.

Colloidal shell formation inside an evaporating droplet.

Droplets and bubbles spreading on liquid-infused surfaces.

Spinning pizza — instabilities on a rotating disk of complex fluid.

Modelling the Ward–Hunt ice-shelf as a viscoelastic solid.

Hydrodynamic forces acting on vertically rising bubbles.

Partial coalescence of drops on viscous films.

When Laplace meets Marangoni — surface-tension gradients in evaporating liquid pools.

The deformation of a droplet in a viscoplastic simple shear flow. Now a co-author on the dilute-emulsions paper.

Standing waves at a fluid-fluid interface with plastocapillarity.

Simulations of foam generation for a custom axisymmetric core-shell nozzle.

Singular jet dynamics of drop impacts at high Bond numbers.

Early time dynamics in immiscible drop impacts.

Spreading of a drop on a water-air interface.

Bursting bubble in a Herschel–Bulkley fluid — an early pillar of the viscoplastic bubble-bursting programme.