View my Google scholar profile
Professor of Applied Mathematics and EPSRC fellow

My research falls into the broad area of "continuum mechanics" or more specifically in the areas of solid mechanics, acoustics, elasticity, elastodynamics, homogenization and micromechanics.  Applications of this work lie in metamaterials, industrial composites and biological media such as soft tissue and bone.  I am also interested more generally in the mathematical modelling of physical processes and industrial problems, and the application and development of novel mathematical methods. My EPSRC Fellowship "NEMESIS", involves materials modelling projects associated with soft tissue, metamaterials and industrial composites. At the heart of the project though is fundamental, novel applied mathematics.

I am the Editor-in-Chief of the international journal Wave Motion. I am also  an Associate Editor for the journals Journal of Engineering Mathematics and Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics.

I lead the Waves In Complex Continua (WICC) group in the School of Mathematics at the University of Manchester. This group was launched in September 2010 with financial support via grants from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, The Leverhulme Trust, The Royal Society and industry. 
WICC has strong research ties with Dyson and Thales UK, principally in acoustics and materials technology research.
Picture
Alan Turing Building, University of Manchester




Research presentation to Dyson in 2015. Sir James Dyson in the foreground, looking on with great interest!
Welcome to Cheuk-Him Yeung, new PhD student starting in Sep 2017. Cheuk-Him received the prestigious "Dean's award" for PhD funding. He will be working on various problems associated with active control of sound.
Welcome to Erik Garcia Neefjes, new PhD student starting Sep 2017 on the  iCASE PhD project entitled "Thermo-visco-acoustic metamaterials". See the following "FindaPhD" page for more details.  
Paper published in ASME J Applied Mechanics with my Postdoc Pu Zhang entitled  "Band gap formation and tunability in stretchable serpentine interconnects".
Our WICC Waves group meetings occur regularly, see the associated webpage.  If you'd be interested in visiting us and speaking at one of these meetings please email me or Raphael Assier at Raphael.Assier@manchester.ac.uk