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.

Ben is an ERC-funded postdoc investigating soft particles in inertial particle microfluidics. He completed his PhD at the University of Manchester, developing a fluid-structure interaction model using discrete methods and GPU acceleration for cardiovascular applications.

Charles is working on an EPSRC-funded project to model and understand solute and cell transport in the human placenta. In his PhD project at the University of Edinburgh, he simulated blood cell dynamics in vitro and in vivo.

Erich is an ERC-funded postdoc exploring the interaction of suspended particles and flow to understand the migration and interaction of particles in inertial microfluidics. Erich investigated the chaotic behaviour of particles in fluid flow during his PhD.

Krishnaveni is an ERC-funded postdoc working on inertial microfluidic applications, such as particle focusing, separation, and interaction in suspensions. She obtained her PhD from the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras.

Qihao's research focusses on the optimisation of chromatography performance through lattice-Boltzmann modelling and machine learning. His principal supervisor is Simone Dimartino (Institute for Bioengineering).

Romain investigates blood flow within the tumour microvasculature to gain a better understanding of tissue oxygenation within tumours. His other supervisors are Miguel Bernabeu (Usher Institute) and Maïwenn Kersaudy-Kerhoas (Heriot-Watt University).

Konstantinos's project is aligned with the ERC project SIRIUS. Konstantinos is investigating particle and cell dynamics in inertial microfluidic devices for sepsis diagnostics.

Giada is working on the EPSRC EMBOSS project, analysing key heat transfer parameters during boiling in order to optimise heat exchange surfaces. Her other supervisors are Prashant Valluri and Khellil Sefiane (Institute for Multiscale Thermofluids)

Ellie is a Precision Medicine PhD student. She is using fluid dynamics simulations to investigate blood flow in the placenta and relating its geometry to functionality, in its ability to exchange nutrients, oxygen, and waste products between mother and fetus.

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.

Tianyu is a student in our 2021/22 MSc in Advanced Chemical Engineering cohort. She will investigate the dynamics of soft particles (such as blood cells) in microfluidic devices for disease diagnostics.