Academic and Knowledge Exchange partners

We work closely with a range of academic institutions and knowledge exchange organisations to support research, collaboration, and impact across the network. Click on each logo to go to each organisation’s site.

Network members (academics)

Our academic members represent a small subset of the network’s wider community, engaging directly with its research and activities, although many more academics are active beyond this group. If you would like to join the SUM4Products network as an academic member, please complete this form.

Alessio Alexiadis
Reader in Chemical Engineering
University of Birmingham
mathematical modelling, computer simulations, machine learning, physics-informed machine learning
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Daniel Hodgson
Director of the Edinburgh Complex Fluids Partnership
University of Edinburgh
Complex fluids, Soft matter experiments, Dense suspension rheology, Industry collaboration
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Daniel Read
Professor of Soft Matter
University of Leeds
polymer, theory, rheology, soft matter
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David Sibley
Loughborough University
Fluid mechanics, Multiphase flows, Droplets
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Dongda Zhang
Lecturer in Chemical Engineering
the University of Manchester
Process Systems Engineering, Machine Learning, Digital Chemical Engineering, Data Intelligence, Industrial Data Analytics
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Ian Griffiths
Professor of Industrial Mathematics
University of Oxford
Mathematical modelling; fluid mechanics; asymptotic analysis; food science
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Jehan Alswaihli
Daphne Jackson Research Fellow
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Jian Liu
Associate Professor
University of Birmingham

Josh Williams
Computational Scientist
STFC Hartree Centre
Fluid dynamics, Multiphase flows, multiscale modelling, CFD, machine learning
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Juliana Morbec
Lecturer in Physics
Keele University
material science, quantum simulations, electronic structure
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Keming Yu
Professor
Brunel University of London
Statistics, Data-Science, ML, Risk-Reliability
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Maryam Khaksar Ghalati
Lecturer - CDT manager
University pf Leicester
Mathematical Modelling, machine learning, AI for Industry, Digital manufacturing
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Paddy Royall
Director of Research
ESPCI Paris
Colloids, Glass Transition, Crystallisation, Confocal Microscopy
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Sean McGinty
Reader
University of Glasgow
Modelling and simulation, phase separation, pharmaceutical products, drug delivery, advection-diffusion-reaction systems
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Tom Eaves
Lecturer
University of Dundee
Mathematical Modelling, Industrial Processes, Defomable Porous Media, Suspensions, Elasto-Visco-Plastics
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Tyler Shendruk
Reader in Computational Condensed Matter Physics
University of Edinburgh
Modelling and simulation, biophysics, rheophysics
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Xiaocheng Shang
Associate Professor in Mathematical Optimisation and Data Science
University of Birmingham
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Xintong Ji
PhD candidate in applied mathematics
University College London
Mathematical modelling, mathematical analysis, mathematics education
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Zohreh Kaheh
Lecturer
Brunel University London
Data-Driven Decision-Making, Big Data, Operations Research, Learning-Guided Optimization