I joined the University of Manchester in 2016 as a Lecturer in Applied Mathematics. I was promoted to Senior Lecturer in 2019 and Reader in 2024. Before starting this lectureship, I was a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Manchester and at Imperial College London.

My research interests are focused around free-surface problems in fluid mechanics (e.g. drops, bubbles and films). I am interested in mathematical modelling, computations, asymptotic methods, feedback control, nonlinear dynamics, and collaborations with experimentallists. I am an active member of the Manchester Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics.

PhD in Applied Mathematics, University of Nottingham, 2012.

Part III Mathematics, University of Cambridge, 2007.

BA Mathematics, University of Cambridge, 2006.

I am a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

I have been module leader for several lecture courses:

MATH20401 (PDEs and Vector Calculus A). I teach the second half of this second-year course.

MATH64062 (PDEs: Theory and Practice). This was a compulsory course in our MSc in Applied Mathematics. It is also delivered to PhD students as part of the MAGIC network.

MATH45032/65032 (Stability Theory). An MMath/MSc course on stability theory.

MATH44151/64151 (Mathematical Methods for PDEs). This is an MMath/MSc course, new for 2024-25. I co-wrote this course with Dr Gareth Wyn Jones.

I have co-supervised three PhD students:

• Jake Harris: Modelling single and multi-phase flow in non-uniform Hele-Shaw channels, 2018-22, with Andrew Hazel
• Sammy Ayoubi: Control-based exploration of disordered systems, 2021-2025, with Anne Juel
• James Shemilt: Modelling lung deposition of inhaled particles in cystic fibrosis, 2020-2024, with Oliver Jensen, Carl Whitfield and Alex Horsfield.