Summary
SUMMARY
A PhD Student in the Department of Mathematics, under the supervision of Dr Eric Keaveny. I previously studied at the University of Oxford, obtaining my Math in 2021.
Our brains and lungs are lined with hair-like filaments called cilia, which themselves are made of long, slender filaments called microtubules. Ciliary beating drives fluid flow at the microscopic scale. Microtubule motion, and hence ciliary motion, is driven by molecular motors called dynein. I am interested in the biophysical modelling of these motors and analysing their effects on the dynamics of these filaments. I am also interested in the coupling of cilia through their long-range hydrodynamics, causing coordinated motion to aid fluid transport.