Students

Supervision

This page provides a record of past student supervision and related work. While I am not currently seeking to take on students as a principal supervisor, I remain interested in co-supervision or in discussing specific mathematical questions arising in student projects, where appropriate.

My supervision and related research activity has largely been in applied mathematics connected with nanoscale modelling, nanostructures, and mathematically motivated physical problems.

Project Areas and Related Topics

Topics that have been of interest in past supervision and project discussions include:

• Dissipation of kinetic energy in gigahertz nano-oscillators
• Electron transport in small-diameter, highly curved carbon nanotubes
• Geometric models of helical carbon nanostructures
• Mathematical models for magnetorheological nanodevices incorporating nano-electromagnets
• Encapsulation of DNA in carbon nanotubes
• Expulsion models for biomolecules in carbon nanotubes
• Fluid mechanical study of lab-on-a-chip technologies
• Mathematical models of nanosyringes and other nanoscaled drug delivery systems
• Nanoparticle interactions with biological systems

Enquiries

I am occasionally open to discussing specific mathematical questions arising in honours or postgraduate work, particularly where co-supervision or topic-specific input may be useful.

Inquiries are most likely to be helpful when they are reasonably well focused and include some indication of the mathematical problem, application area, and the role envisaged for my involvement.