Research output per year
Research output per year
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PhD projects
One fully-funded post, starting Sept 2025
https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/modelling-the-biomechanical-networks-of-the-lung-in-heath-and-disease/?p176345
I am a Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Fellow developing computational models of lung structure and function in health and disease, with a particular focus on cystic fibrosis. My webpage can be found here.
I am a Research Fellow in the Department of Mathematics specialising in mathematical and computational modelling in respiratory medicine.
In January 2025 I started a DKO Fellowship in the Applied Mathematics group. My research centres around multi-scale modelling of flow, transport, and biomechanical phenomena in the lungs. I am interested in using patient-specific models to detect diseases earlier, optimise treatment delivery and understand disease mechanisms.
Before my current role, I was a Post-Doctoral Researcher and MRC Skills Development Fellow working with Dr. Alex Horsley and Prof. Oliver Jensen here in Manchester, as well as Prof. Jim Wild in Sheffield, who I continue to collaborate with in my current role. I also spent a year during the COVID-19 pandemic working with the mathematical epidemiology group, supervised by Prof Ian Hall, focusing mainly on modelling the impact of asymptomatic testing interventions on SARS-CoV-2 transmission.
I have previously held positions at the Universities of Warwick and Sheffield where my main research focus was modelling active soft matter. That is soft materials, mainly liquid crystals, driven out of equilibirum at the microscopic level. Such systems have numerous applications to biological matter such as collections of bacteria and cells as well as the cell cytoskeleton.
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Doctor of Philosophy, Modelling Spontaneous Motion and Deformation of Active Droplets, The University of Sheffield
1 Oct 2012 → 31 Oct 2015
Award Date: 30 Nov 2015
Master of Physics, MPhys Physics with Mathematics, The University of Sheffield
1 Sept 2008 → 1 Jun 2012
Award Date: 30 Jun 2012
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Heazell, A. (PI), Brownbill, P. (CoI), Chernyavsky, I. (CoI), Cotter, S. (CoI), Duhig, K. (CoI), Higgins, L. (CoI), Jensen, O. (CoI), Johnstone, E. (CoI) & Whitfield, C. (CoI)
17/10/22 → 31/03/25
Project: Research
Hall, I. (PI), House, T. (Researcher), Pellis, L. (Researcher), Riley, H. (Researcher), Scarabel, F. (Researcher), Whitfield, C. (Researcher), Xu, F. (Researcher), Xu, J. (Researcher), Curran-Sebastian, J. (PGR student), Das, R. (PGR student), Pang, X. (PGR student), Webb, L. (PGR student), Silva, M. (PGR student), Overton, C. (Researcher) & Stage, H. (Researcher)
Project: Research
Van Tongeren, M. (PI), Wei, H. (CoI), Denning, D. (CoI), Hall, I. (CoI), Han, Y. (CoI), Regan, C. (CoI), Verma, A. (CoI), Whitfield, C. (Researcher) & Daniels, S. (Researcher)
27/04/20 → 26/04/21
Project: Research
Whitfield, C. (Creator), University of Manchester Figshare, 9 Mar 2023
DOI: 10.48420/22232833, https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Input_data_for_Modelling_the_impact_of_non-pharmaceutical_interventions_on_workplace_transmission_of_SARS-CoV-2_in_the_home-delivery_sector_/22232833
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Whitfield, C. (Creator), University of Manchester Figshare, 9 Mar 2023
DOI: 10.48420/22226266.v1, https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/software/Python_plotting_scripts_for_Modelling_the_impact_of_non-pharmaceutical_interventions_on_workplace_transmission_of_SARS-CoV-2_in_the_home-delivery_sector_/22226266/1
Dataset
Whitfield, C. (Creator), University of Manchester Figshare, 9 Mar 2023
DOI: 10.48420/22219564, https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Processed_simulation_outputs_for_Modelling_the_impact_of_non-pharmaceutical_interventions_on_workplace_transmission_of_SARS-CoV-2_in_the_home-delivery_sector_/22219564 and one more link, https://figshare.manchester.ac.uk/articles/dataset/Processed_simulation_outputs_for_Modelling_the_impact_of_non-pharmaceutical_interventions_on_workplace_transmission_of_SARS-CoV-2_in_the_home-delivery_sector_/22219564/1 (show fewer)
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