A brief description of some of recent research is given below, although it may not be up-to-date. For more information, just click on one of the pictures or go to the publications page.

1. •Before Germany and Tokyo, I was a Marie Curie fellow at Amsterdam, where I worked with Fred MacKintosh on a biophysics problem (namely, modelling the mechanical properties of the cellular cytoskeleton) as well as a few smaller projects. For details, please see the relevant publications or links.
   

2. •Before Amsterdam, I was a research fellow at the University of Edinburgh, working on a EPSRC project entitled `Glassy behaviour in soft materials and granular matter'. An overview of the publications completed as part of this project can be found here.
   

3. •Before Edinburgh, I was a postgraduate student at Brunel University, London, working with Geoff Rodgers on various problems, in particular self-organised criticality and lattice models of granular media (surface flow and compaction). If you would like a copy of my thesis, just ask, although all of the essential results were published anyway.

Simulating the deformation and buckling of polymer or colloid crusts that form during droplet evaporation

Research archive:

Modelling the propagation of forces through semiflexible polymer networks (relates to the cellular cytoskeleton)

Mean-field modelling of jammed systems, and the effects of introducing an attractive regime to the interactions

Older research:

Current research (as of 20th Jan. 2010):

Numerical investigation into the dynamics of a model ‘jamming’ system, for both freely-cooling systems, and `thermally’ agitated ones

Attempts to understand the effect of active crosslinks (= force dipole generators) in biopolymer networks, such as the cellular cytoskeleton