News & Highlights

Awards, talks, events and milestones from the group.

Highlights

Lois Martin, Dr Chandan Bose and Ethan Warman in front of a bookshelf Team · Oct 2026 Welcome, Lois and Ethan! Lois Martin and Ethan Warman, who first joined BioFSILab as third-year undergraduate researchers, have started their PhDs with us. Ethan will work on data-driven optimisation, control and reduced-order modelling of fluid-structure interaction; Lois will study flow in anisotropic media, directional solidification and defect formation, co-supervised by Dr Nils Warnken and Prof Nick Green. Read the post Photo collage from the Bio-Inspired FSI Symposium 2026 at the University of Birmingham Event · Jun 2026 Bio-Inspired FSI Symposium 2026 BioFSILab hosted a focused symposium on bio-inspired fluid-structure interaction at the University of Birmingham, with talks from collaborators at IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras, Lakehead University, the University of Edinburgh and Lublin University of Technology. Funded by the Royal Society and the University of Birmingham. Read the post Photo collage from the Midlands Fluid Mechanics Meeting 2026 at the University of Warwick Conference · Jun 2026 Midlands Fluid Mechanics Meeting 2026 BioFSILab took part in the fourth Midlands Fluid Mechanics Meeting at the University of Warwick. Arjun, Yukesh, Hibah and Ethan presented their ongoing research, and Dr Chandan Bose chaired a session spanning multiphase flows, active wing morphing, cryogenic hydrogen jets and vortex dynamics. Read the post

All News

  1. Nov 2026

    BioFSILab will present its latest research at the 79th APS Division of Fluid Dynamics Annual Meeting in Orlando, USA (22–24 November), including butterfly flight aerodynamics, passively morphing foils in gusty flows and data-driven modelling of vortex-induced vibrations.

  2. Oct 2026

    BioFSILab welcomes two new PhD students, Lois Martin and Ethan Warman, both of whom started with the group as undergraduate researchers. Ethan will work on data-driven optimisation, control and reduced-order modelling of fluid-structure interaction problems, and Lois on flow in anisotropic media, directional solidification and defect formation, co-supervised by Dr Nils Warnken and Prof Nick Green. Read more.

  3. Oct 2026

    Welcome on board, Harrison Buckner! Harrison has started his PhD at the University of Birmingham, co-supervised by Dr Jun Wu and Dr Chandan Bose, researching a bio-inspired active morphing wingtip for next-generation aircraft. Read more.

  4. Aug 2026

    Our paper “Effect of transverse gust on free-falling plates” has been published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, in collaboration with the University of Edinburgh.

  5. Jul 2026

    Our work on GPU-optimised integration of immersed-boundary and overset-mesh methods for moving-boundary problems has been published in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, with collaborators at IIT Kharagpur.

  6. Jun 2026

    BioFSILab hosted the Bio-Inspired FSI Symposium 2026 at the University of Birmingham, with talks from Prof. Dave Dyson-Smith, Prof. Sunetra Sarkar, Prof. Somnath Roy, Dr Aditya Potnis and Ms Doudou Huang alongside BioFSILab members, and visits from Prof. Grzegorz Litak and Dr Muhammad Saif Ullah Khalid. The event was funded by the Royal Society and the University of Birmingham. Read more.

  7. Jun 2026

    Arjun Shergill, Yukesh Karki, Hibah Saddal and Ethan Warman presented their research at the Midlands Fluid Mechanics Meeting 2026 at the University of Warwick, where Dr Chandan Bose chaired a session on multiphase flows, active wing morphing, cryogenic hydrogen jets and vortex dynamics. Read more.

  8. Jun 2026

    New preprint with Georgia Tech: multi-objective Bayesian optimisation of rigid and flexible nozzles for energy-efficient pulsed-jet propulsion.

  9. May 2026

    Doudou Huang’s paper on the wake dynamics of permeable disks across the transition from steady to chaotic flow has been published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, and our collaborative preprint “Squid funnels time their elastic recoil to amplify pulsed jets” is now on arXiv.