Multiscale Thermofluids

www.timm-krueger.de

I am Professor of Fluid and Suspension Dynamics. My research focuses on the modelling and simulation of complex fluids on microfluidic scales, for example suspensions of deformable particles or red blood cells. I am teaching Chemical Engineering in the second year. I am the Co-Chair of the University's Research Cultures Forum.

• PhD in Physics, Bochum University, Germany, 2011
• Diploma in Physics, Heidelberg University, Germany, 2007

• Institute of Physics
• Institute of Physics and Engineering in Medicine
• German Physical Society

Chemistry and Processes 2

• Modelling and simulation of complex fluids
• Microfluidics, suspensions and emulsions
• Blood flow in complex geometries and blood cell separation
• Inertial microfluidics
• Lattice-Boltzmann method
• Immersed-boundary method

After beginning my career in industry as a Building Service Engineer, I went back into education to complete a BSc in Physics at Northumbria University. During this time I completed a project with the Smart Materials and Surfaces Laboratory in liquid-liquid capillary imbibition. This inspired to continue research in the field and went on to gain a PhD titled “Pinning-Free Evaporation of Sessile Droplets from Slippery Surfaces”. During my PhD my research was focused on manipulation of droplets using slippery surfaces and electric fields to modify evaporation behaviour. I am currently a Post-Doctoral Research Associate within the WISE laboratory in the Institute of Multiscale Thermofluids at the University of Edinburgh on an EPSRC funded project looking into the strain-dependant manipulation of sessile droplets on new metamaterials.