Members
Current group members
Timm is the Principal Investigator of the BioFM group. He obtained his PhD in Physics in 2011 and has been leading the BioFM group in Edinburgh since 2013. His main interest is the modelling of microfluidics for healthcare applications.
Calum is working with the company Cytovale to optimise the performance of a microfluidic device that is used for sepsis detection.
Saba joined the group in October 2021 to model device deformation in inertial microfluidics under high-pressure conditions.
Claire started her PhD in September 2023. Her research focuses on red blood cell dynamics in complex geometries and the interaction with endothelial cells in health and disease.
Roslyn's research focuses on modelling the separation of circulating tumour cells from blood within an inertial microfluidic device. She collaborates with experimentalists at the University of Illinois, Chicago. Her principal supervisor is Dr Benjamin Owen (Institute for Multiscale Thermofluids).
Subrata's project focuses on investigating the onset of non-laminar dynamics in blood flow using the Taylor-Couette geometry as model system. Subrata is exploring the rheological properties of blood as a complex, non-Newtonian fluid, the effects of flow-induced stresses on cellular behaviour, and the transition from laminar to turbulent regimes under biologically relevant conditions. Subrata's principal supervisor is Dr David Fairhurst in the School of Physics and Astronomy.
Eleonora is a PhD student at the University of Naples Federico II. She conducts research on blood flow and platelet adhesion in microfluidic devices to investigate thrombosis.
Former group members
Visitors
- Michelle Spanjaards (research visit, 2024)
- David Inglis (sabbatical, 2019)
Postdocs
- Qi (Charles) Zhou (2020-24), now Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh
- Konstantinos Kechagidis (2023-24)
- Krishnaven Thota (2021-24)
- Erich Essmann (2021-24)
- Benjamin Owen (2020-24), now Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Edinburgh
- Rohan Vernekar (2018-21)
- Emmanouil Falagkaris (2019-21)
- Patrick Schmidt (2017)
- Ciro Semprebon (2015-16), now Associate Professor at Northumbria University
PhD/MSc students
- Giada Minozzi (PhD student, 2020-25)
- Petra Sitanggang (MSc student, 2023/24)
- Konstantinos Kechagidis (PhD student, 2019-23)
- Romain Enjalbert (PhD student, 2019-23)
- Enjian Liu (MSc student, 2022/23)
- Shaoyang Gao (MSc student, 2022/23)
- Tianyu Ma (MSc student, 2021/22)
- Greg Sutton (PhD student, 2017-21)
- Qi (Charles) Zhou (PhD student, 2015-20)
- Arunn Sathasivam (PhD student, 2015-19)
- Rohan Vernekar (PhD student, 2014-18)
- Bowen Wang (MSc student, 2016/17)
Undergraduate students
- Katherine Watson (UG research student, 2024/25)
- Borislava Georgieva (UG summer student, 2023)
- Mia Temkin (UG summer student, 2023)
- Siddharth Shewale (UG summer student, 2023)
- Alex Eden (UG research student, 2022/23)
- Aljona Antonova (UG summer student, 2022)
- Sophie Whan (UG summer student, 2022)
- Kendra Kolodziej (UG summer student, 2021)
- Raphael Chen (UG research student, 2020/21)
- Sean Harrison (UG research student, 2020/21)
- Hannah McKeown (UG research student, 2020/21)
- Bora Alper (UG summer student, 2020)
- Doğa Şatır (UG summer student, 2020)
- Rafael Anderka (UG summer student, 2020)
- Andri Theofanous (UG research student, 2019/20)
- Calum Mallorie (UG summer student, 2019 and 2020)
- Adam Machon (UG research student, 2018/19)
- Malcolm Bell (UG research student, 2018/19)
- Venecia Chavez Medina (visiting UG student, 2018)
- Christopher Tay (UG research student, 2017/18)
- Lavinia Calvi (UG summer student, 2016 and 2017)
- Chenghan Han (IAESTE summer student, 2017)
- Matilde Garcia (UG summer student, 2017)
- Vivek Shrestha (UG summer student, 2017)
- Martin Nikiforidis (Erasmus+ exchange student, 2017)
- Julia Zaenker (UG summer student, 2016)
- Stuart Fraser (UG research student, 2015/16)
- Callum Renton (UG research student, 2015/16)
- Douglas Connell (UG summer student, 2015)