Simon Cox, BSc (Warwick) PhD (East Anglia) FIMA FLSW SFHEA

Curriculum Vitae

Personal Details

• Address: Department of Mathematics, Aberystwyth University, Ceredigion SY23 3BZ
• Telephone: +44 (0)1970 622764
• Nationality: British

Employment

• 2014-present Head of Department, Department of Mathematics, Aberystwyth University.
• 2010-present Professor, Department of Mathematics, Aberystwyth University.
• 2006-2011 EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow. Research on foams, complex fluids, and cellular structures through modelling, computation and experiment.
• 2006-2010 Reader in Applied Mathematics, Institute of Mathematics and Physics, Aberystwyth University.
• 2005-2006 Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, Institute of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Aberystwyth University.
• 2002-2004 Temporary Lecturer in Computational Physics, Trinity College, Dublin.
• 1998-2002,2004 Postdoctoral Researcher with the Foam Physics Group at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland with Prof. D. Weaire. Held an Enterprise Ireland Fellowship and a Marie Curie Fellowship.

Education and Academic Qualifications

• April 2016 Recognised as a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.
• 1995-1998 PhD in Applied Mathematics in the School of Mathematics at the University of East Anglia, UK: `Pressure Impulses caused by Wave Impact' (Abstract: (.ps) Thesis: (.ps)), supervised by Dr. Mark Cooker, funded by EPSRC. Mathematical modelling of wave impacts using Pressure Impulse Theory.
• 1991-1994 BSc (Hons) in Applied Mathematics (First Class) at the University of Warwick, UK. Final year project on mixing and chaotic streamlines in flow between eccentric rotating cylinders.

Professional Affiliations

• President (2021-23) and Council Member of the British Society of Rheology (BSR)
• Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales (FLSW)
• Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (FIMA)
• Co-Director of the Institute of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics
• Member of the London Mathematical Society

Research Interests

• Foam Rheology: Solution of problems relating to the flow of yield-stress materials. Relationship to meso-scopic bubble-scale models, quantifying the role of viscosity in the flow of complex fluids such as foams and granular materials. Applications in the personal care industry and the petroleum industry.
• Foam Drainage: Use of analytical techniques, such as similarity solutions, and numerics to solve partial differential equations describing the viscous flow of liquid through a network of thin collapsible channels. Simple experiments on aqueous foams and soap films. Applications in the automobile industry and in froth flotation processes.
• Simulation of Cellular Structures: Analysis of instabilities in small clusters of cells. Simulation of area-minimizing structures using the Surface Evolver. Analysis and visualisation of three-dimensional disordered structures.
• Biological Morphology: Investigation of the morphology of tissues based on analogies with foams. Application of the results of packing problems to infer details of the growth of biological systems.
• Pressure Impulse Theory: Analysis of pressures induced by breaking waves on coastal structures. Potential theory.
• Demonstrating science to non-scientists & children through the medium of bubbles.