Prof Andrew Gilbert
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After spending my formative years at Bury Grammar School, I took my first degree in Mathematics in Cambridge (first class each year) followed by the Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics ('Part III') for which I was awarded a Distinction and the Mayhew Prize.
I then worked for a PhD in DAMTP, Cambridge under the supervision of Prof. Keith Moffatt. After a year as a Researcher at the Observatoire de Nice (with Uriel Frisch) and 3 years as a Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, I moved to Exeter, where I am now a Professor of Mathematical Physics, with interests in fluid mechanics, magnetic field generation in fluid flows, mixing processes and dynamical systems.
I was pleased to be the recipient of a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship for the academic year 2007/8, and was working on problems of singularities in fluid flows and mixing in flows dominated by coherent vortices.
Research Interests
- Fluid mechanics and magnetohydrodynamics
- Vortex dynamics, stability and mixing
- Dynamo theory (modelling geophysical and astrophysical magnetic fields)
- Applications of dynamical systems to fluid flows
- Asymptotic methods for solving PDEs
- Magnetically driven swimmers in low Reynolds number flows
Teaching Interests
I teach a range of modules, at present Fluid Dynamics (part), Numerics and Optimisation, Systems, Series and Transforms, and Computational MSc modules (part). I also supervise MMath and BSc projects. In 2009/10 I also gave a MAGIC lecture course (with Prof. Mitch Berger) on Topological Fluid Mechanics.
Other Relevant Information
1994 - Member, London Mathematical Society.
2001 - Fellow, Royal Astronomical Society.
2002 - Fellow, Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.
2003 - Book review editor: Geophysical and Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics.
2004 - Editor: Fluid Dynamics Research.
Qualifications: MA, PhD (Cantab), FIMA, CMath, FRAS.
