Speakers:

Dr Jagan Selvaraj, James Watt School of Engineering

‘Bridging multiple scales in composites for improved structural performance’

Composite materials enable tailoring of properties along loading directions, offering improved mechanical performance and aeroelastic tailoring critical for achieving net-zero targets and energy efficiency in aerospace, automotive, and energy sectors. Yet, their inherent brittleness demands damage-tolerant designs and rigorous multiscale analysis, since failure mechanisms initiate at scales far smaller than structural dimensions. My research focuses on numerical methods that bridge these scales, and I am interested in developing new connections to exploit tailored lightweight composites for advanced manufacturing, high-temperature applications, energy storage, space structures, stiffness tailoring, and environmentally durable materials. I seek collaborations with industry and academia to explore innovative applications.

 

Dr Davide Vettori, James Watt School of Engineering

‘Life in moving water’

My main interests are in the mutual interactions between aquatic organisms and moving water: how water motion influences the activities and characteristics of organisms, and how organisms shape the environment and affect the flow properties to their advantage. My goal is to advance fundamental understanding of such interactions to the benefit of applications in different contexts, from individual bacteria up to seagrass canopies. I am an experimentalist at heart, and I seek to establish interdisciplinary collaborations with colleagues and external organisations working on Nature-based Solutions for mitigating flooding risk or on the interactions between complex flows and human-made structures. I am keen to engage with interested colleagues and relevant stakeholders to develop funding proposals stretching from fundamental research to real-world applications.

 

 Miss Jaspreet Kaur, James Watt School of Engineering    

 ‘TITLE TBC’

 TEXT TBC. 

 

First published: 6 August 2025

<< Zoomposia