People

Dalton Harvie: Dalton is an Associate Professor within the Department of Chemical Engineering. His research speciality is Multiphysics Fluid Dynamics, encompassing method development and application. Dalton maintains this site.

Joe Berry: Joe has worked within the MFD group on a number of projects, including modelling electrokinetic two-phase flows, and on the modelling of blood flow and coagulation within our ARC funded Linkage project in collaboration with RMIT and CSL. Joe is now a staff member in our department.

Malcolm Davidson: Malcolm is an Adjunct Associate Professor within the Department of Chemical Engineering. His research has covered the computational and mathematical modelling of a wide range of fluid dynamics and transport phenomena in single and multiphase flows. Specific areas of current interest are two-fluid flows with deforming interfaces and electrokinetic fluid flows in micro- and nano-channels.

Malavika Haribabu: Malavika completed a PhD in our group developing models to simulate the ultra-filtration of milk.

Nilanka Ekanayake: Nilanka completed a PhD in our group on the migration of cells within blood flow in collaboration with our industry partner, CSL Behring. Nilanka is now a post-doc working in the department.

Abdul Raize Rasheed: Raize completed a PhD in our group on the coalescence of droplets with particular application to industrially relevant solvent extraction processes.

Rohit Pillai: Rohit completed a PhD in our group on modelling two-phase electrokinetic flows, looking specifically at the deformation, breakup and coalescence of microfluidic droplets in electric fields. Rohit is now working at the University of Edinburgh.

Lachlan Mason: Lachlan completed a PhD on coalescence in our group, studying the coalescence of droplets in liquid liquid systems with application to the solvent extraction industry.

Christian Biscombe: Christian completed a PhD in our group on the modelling of electrokinetic circuits, and then worked as a post-doc in our group on the modelling of blood and coagulation. See Biofluids.

Wei-Lun Hsu: Wei-Lun Hsu completed his PhD in 2015 and is now working at the University of Tokyo. Wei-Lun has broad interests in electrokinetics, colloid and interface science, micro/nanofluidics, computational fluid dynamics, molecular dynamics and Lab-on-a-Chip technology. He received his BS and MS degrees in Chemical Engineering at National Taiwan University where He worked on diffusiophoretic behaviour of biomolecular particles in electrolyte solutions in 2007 and 2009, respectively. His MS thesis was the winner of the dissertation award from Chinese Chemical Society, Taiwan in 2009. He started his PhD at Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Melbourne in 2011 after finishing his one year compulsory military service in Taiwan. He PhD research focus was on electrokinetics of the silica and electrolyte interface with application to protein focusing and separation in a nanofluidic channel. In 2013, he visited the University of Tokyo to investigate the viscoelectric effect due to water polarisation in electric double layers via molecular dynamics.