Investigators
Dr. John Schormans is an electronics engineer who has worked in communications networks for around 20 years, focussing on probabilistic methods for simulation and analysis. Recently he has focussed on the limits of measurability in large-scale packet networks, identifying a statistical solution to this engineering problem.
Dr. Heiko Grossmann is a lecturer in the School of Mathematics. His expertise is in the mathematical design of simulations and experiments,, especially applications in social science. Within the project he is also acting as a focal point for statisticians, the Dynamical Systems group, and other colleagues in the School of Mathematics.
Professor Peter McOwan works on perception as a member of the Vision group in the Department of Computer Science, and currently leads a joint project with the Department of Psychology at University College London, on the mathematical modelling and detailed psychophysical investigations of low-level vision.
Professor Ante Munjiza works on various applications of computational mechanics at the School of Engineering and Materials Science (SEMS), QMUL. In particular, his research combines finite-discrete element methods with applications including blasts, impact, granular flow, packing, fracture, fragmentation, imaging and visualisation. Prof Munjiza has been at the cutting edge of discontinua simulation developments, many applications of which span a broad field of scientific and engineering disciplines, from traditional engineering to physics of particulates, nano-technology and micro-flows.
Dr. Jens Dominik Mueller is a lecturer of BioFluids at SEMS and his research interests include dynamics of biofluids,
fast adjoint solvers and optimisation, and
mesh management for fluid flow simulations.
Dr Paulo Oliva holds a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in QMUL’s Logic and Semantics group in Computer Science. Working with Professor Ursula Martin and in collaboration with Qinetiq he pioneered ideas which apply logic, originally developed to model computer software, to dynamical systems. Within the project he will lead coordination with colleagues in the Department of Computer Science.
Professor Jonathan Pitts is an electronics engineer who has worked on the analysis, simulation and measurement of communications networks for around 20 years. He has led the Networks Group in Electronic Engineering and has collaborated with the QMUL Dynamical Systems group in Mathematics (Prof David Arrowsmith). This collaboration has achieved great success in applying nonlinear dynamics to the fundamental understanding of complex interactions and underlying chaotic behaviour in packet networks. His life long research has led him to start a spin-off company, Actual Experience, which has been growing despite the current downward economic trends.
D.r John Cater, now retired from the project to return to New Zealand, joined QMUL as a lecturer in 2004. John works on turbulent fluid mechanics, using both computational and experimental methods. At QM, he is developing a facility to explore the phenomena of jet noise. Within Bridging The Gaps he will lead coordination with colleagues in Engineering, including Prof Ante Munjiza, whose work covers a range of computational mechanics topics, in particular visualisation, and combined finite-discrete element methods for the simulation of systems of discontinua comprising potentially billions of particles