I am a postdoctoral researcher in the group of Joakim Stenhammar in the Division of Physical Chemistry at Lund University in Sweden.

My research domain is theoretical soft matter physics, particularly the computational modelling of non-equilibrium, biological systems across all scales.

My current work focuses on active turbulence in suspensions of microswimmers, such as the bacteria E. Coli: active matter at the microscale. This uses statistical modelling and numerical simulation via HPC to investigate and characterise its non-linear behaviour.

Additionally, I work on the development of novel machine learning techniques used to self-organise and self-optimise a swarm of autonomous robots, which has subsequently been realised in a real-world robot swarm.

I was awarded my PhD in 2019, completed under the supervision of Matthew Turner, studying the dynamics of bird flocks, specifically under topological constraints: active matter at the macroscale. (Read my thesis here: “Topological models of swarming”)

 

(Left) Bird flocking: Sort sol at Ørnsø.  (Right) Active nematic: confined microtubules.