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Professor Cath Noakes has received an award from the Royal Academy of Engineering for her outstanding work tackling the spread of coronavirus. The Academy’s citation honours Cath's "role in advising the NHS and Government at the highest level during the pandemic, shaping life-saving guidance based on her expertise in environmental and engineering controls." Professor Noakes is one of...
The longlist of 12 entries was reduced to a shortlist of three theses by the outgoing Executive Committee of the UK Fluids Network. The six members of the incoming Executive Committee read the three entries on the shortlist and agreed that all three theses were outstanding and worthy of the thesis prize. Each member had...
The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Fluid Dynamics is now recruiting to this fantastic PhD opportunity in partnership with Equinor. As a student on the CDT you will participate in a four year programme that combines an integrated MSc (completed over the first two years) paired with a three year PhD-level research programme. This...
CDT students Foteini Zagklavara and Jessica Proctor are amongst the three students awarded the Margaret Steel Scholarship. The award is a generous £1000 prize awarded female students who showed a particular aptitude for innovation and want to develop an idea. Foteini developed an interest in the Biomedical applications Engineering can have, and how Engineering can...
The following papers on COVID-19 have been published by Fluid Dynamics researchers and academics at the University of Leeds: COVID-19 and non-traditional mask use: How do various materials compare in reducing the infection risk for mask wearers? Leeds authors include: Marco Felipe-King, Cath Noakes, Martin Lopez-Garcia and CDT student Jessica Proctor. How can airborne transmission...
Professor Cath Noakes is a member of SAGE and the hospital onset COVID-19, environmental, and children's working groups. The children's working group is examining transmission in children and within schools. Using the principles of fluid dynamics - the analysis of air flows – Professor Noakes’ research team at Leeds simulate pathogen spread in hospitals and...
The EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Fluid Dynamics is now recruiting to this fantastic PhD opportunity in partnership with Dupont Teijin Films. As a student on the CDT you will participate in a four year programme that combines an integrated MSc (completed over the first two years) paired with a three year PhD-level research...
CDT student Rory Hetherington has been involved in research for COVID-19, helping to develop a way of creating a ventilatory system for patients that can be made rapidly on a 3D printer. It is a low-tech solution based on redesigning an existing medical device known as a Venturi valve. It does not need electricity and...
Congratulations to CDT Management Board member, Prof Jurgen Schneider, who has obtained a Wellcome Trust Investigator in Science Award worth £1.7m to support research in cardiac remodelling. The project combines leading expertise in cDMRI and microstructural imaging with access to one of only three such scanners worldwide (located at the Cardiff University Brain Research Imaging Centre – CUBRIC), to develop next generation assessments of human...
Congratulations to CDT student Damilola Adekanye who was awarded a John Fox prize which funded a research placement to TU Braunschweig, Germany in March 2020.