Dr Hermes Gadelha
BSc, MSc, DPhil
Current positions
Senior Lecturer in Mathematical and Data Modelling
Department of Engineering Mathematics
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Dr Hermes Gadelha was awarded with the "Best of Bristol Lecturer Award" - BoB
Our research focuses on novel questions and unexplained phenomena in a broad range of physical systems found in nature. We are inspired by engineering and mathematical problems found in biology, and the arts. This includes areas such as small-scale fluid mechanics, solid mechanics and elasticity, biological soft-matter, transport phenomena and diffusion, pattern formation and self-organization, and biomimetic devices.
We use a combination of analytical derivations, numerical computations and empirical investigations in areas ranging from animal and human fertilization, swimming of microorganisms, especially human spermatozoa and bacterial swimming, cancer mechanics, molecular-motor dynamics, fluid-structure interactions of intelligent structures, plus synthetic bio-inspired propellers and swimmers.
Other areas include automatic bio-imaging processing and mathematical data analysis, and unorthodox problems in arts and humanities. Interdisciplinarity is thus at the heart of our poly-disciplinary research, and group members will work within a worldwide network which spans an umbrella of universities and industrial partners across 12 countries, from oil and food industry, to fertility clinics and livestock companies.
Our group members also work together towards our public engagement activities in schools, museums and in the media (BBC, Science, The Discovery Channel, The New Scientist and TV interviews) and schools.
Positions
University of Bristol positions
Senior Lecturer in Mathematical and Data Modelling
Department of Engineering Mathematics
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
How tough is WASH? Developing indicators to measure the resilience of WASH to climate change in LMICs
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
We will develop and test indicators that will measure whether drinking water supplies and sanitation in rural areas and small towns in Nepal and Ethiopia are resilient to the future…Managing organisational unit
Department of Civil EngineeringDates
01/10/2019 to 31/07/2021
EPSRC Targeted; Trapping bacteria efficiently to inform treatment of urinary tract infection using microfluidic chips: mathematical modelling and observational study
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Department of Engineering MathematicsDates
01/08/2006 to 30/04/2017
Publications
Recent publications
12/01/2021A dynamic basal complex modulates mammalian sperm movement
Direct Measurement of Unsteady Microscale Stokes Flow Using Optically Driven Microspheres
Egg-Sperm Interaction in Sturgeon: Role of Ovarian Fluid
Motility and guidance of sea urchin sperm
Reproduction in Aquatic Animals
A coupled immersed interface and level set method for simulation of interfacial flows steered by surface tension
Experimental and Computational Multiphase Flow