A copy of my CV - Rob Style

Robert Style
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Yale University, New Haven 06511
[email protected]
Education
PhD
Applied Mathematics, Cambridge University, UK
`The formation and evolution of frost flowers and related
phenomena’. Advisor: Grae Worster.
2008
Masters
St. Catharine’s College, Cambridge University, UK
Department of Applied Maths and Theoretical Physics
Certificate of Advanced study in Mathematics (Distinction)
2004
BA
St Catharine’s College, Cambridge University, UK
BA in Mathematics (1st Class with honours)
2003
Employment
Bateman Interdepartmental Postdoctoral Fellow
Departments of Mechanical Engineering/Geology & Geophysics
Yale University, USA
2011-Present
Postdoc
Oxford Centre for Collaborative Applied Mathematics (OCCAM)
Oxford University, UK
2009-2011
Research Analyst
Tesco PLC, UK
2008-2009
Research Areas
Soft Matter, Contact Mechanics, Elastocapillarity, Fluid Mechanics, Fracture, Solidification.
I have worked extensively with both theory and experimental laboratory work.
Teaching experience
Stipendiary lecturer, New College, Oxford University, UK
Tutorials in: Calculus, Differential Equations, Probability, Dynamics
2010
Teaching assistant, Oxford University, UK
Teaching example classes in Elasticity, and Maths & the Environment
2009-2011
Supervisor, Cambridge University, UK
Supervisions in: Maths (for Natural Scientists) and Fluid Dynamics
2004-2007
Awards
Bateman Interdepartmental Fellowship, Yale University, USA
2011-2013
Scholarship to attend the École de Physique des Houches Summer
School `Soft Interfaces’
2012
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Fellowship, Woods Hole Oceanographic
Institute, USA
2006
St. Catharine’s College Scholarship for excellence in examinations
2001-2003
Publications
1.
RW Style, C Hyland, R Boltyankskiy, JS Wettlaufer & ER Dufresne, `Surface tension
and contact with soft elastic solids’ Nature Comms. 4 2728 (2013).
2.
RW Style, Y Che, SJ Park, BM Weon, JH Je, C Hyland, GK German, M Power, LA
Wilen, JS Wettlaufer & ER Dufresne, `Patterning droplets with durotaxis’ Proc. Nat.
Acad. Sci. 110 12541 (2013). Commentary in Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci., Research Highlight
in Nature.
3.
RW Style, Y Che, JS Wettlaufer, LA Wilen & ER Dufresne, `Universal deformation of
soft substrates near a contact line and the direct measurement of solid surface
stresses’ Phys. Rev. Lett. 110 066103 (2013). Synopsis in Physics
4.
SSL Peppin & RW Style, `The physics of frost heave and ice-lens growth’ Vadose
Zone J. 12 (2013).
5.
RW Style & ER Dufresne, `Static wetting on deformable substrates, from liquids to soft
solids’ Soft Matter 8 7177 (2012).
6.
RW Style & SSL Peppin, `The kinetics of ice growth in porous media’ J. Fluid Mech.
692 482 (2012).
7.
RW Style, SSL Peppin, ACF Cocks & JS Wettlaufer, `Ice lens formation and
geometrical supercooling in soils and other colloidal materials’ Phys. Rev. E 84 041402
(2011). Focus in Physics.
8.
SSL Peppin, A Majumdar, RW Style & GC Sander, `Frost heave in colloidal soils’ SIAM
J. Appl. Math. 71 171 (2011).
9.
RW Style, SSL Peppin & ACF Cocks, `Mud peeling and horizontal crack formation in
drying clays’ J. Geophys. Res. Earth Surface 116 F01025 (2011).
10.
R McKibbin, N Hale, RW Style & N Walters, `Convection and heat transfer in layered
sloping warm water aquifers’ J. Porous Media 14 329 (2011).
11.
RW Style & SSL Peppin, `Crust formation in drying colloidal suspensions’ Proc. Roy.
Soc. A 467 174 (2011).
12.
RW Style & MG Worster, `Linear stability of a solid-vapour interface’ Proc. Roy. Soc. A
466 1005 (2010).
13.
RW Style & MG Worster, `Frost flower formation on sea ice and lake ice’ Geophys.
Res. Lett. 36 L11501 (2009). Coverage in New Scientist.
14.
RW Style & JS Wettlaufer, `Evaporatively driven morphological instability’ Phys. Rev. E
76 011602 (2007).
15.
RW Style & MG Worster, `Surface transport in premelted films with application to grainboundary grooving’ Phys. Rev. Lett. 95 176102 (2005).
Selected presentations
American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics, Chicago, USA.
`Grain boundary grooving driven by surface melting’
2005
1st International & Multidisciplinary Workshop on the Solidification of Colloidal
Suspensions, Avignon, France.
`Ice lens formation in a freezing colloidal material’
2010
American Chemical Society, Colloids meeting, Baltimore, USA
`Wetting on soft solids: Young or Neumann?’
2012
American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics, San Diego, USA.
`How Young’s law fails on soft substrates’
2012
Gordon Research Seminar on Adhesion, Mount Holyoke College, USA
Invited speaker: `Droplets on squishy surfaces’
2013
Gordon Research Seminar on Soft Matter, South Hadley College, USA
Invited speaker: `Contact on sticky, squishy surfaces’
2013
4th Collaborative Workshop Initiative, Oxford University, UK
Invited speaker: `Contact mechanics in soft solids’
2014
Languages
English:
French:
Fluent
Conversational
Referees
Prof. M Grae Worster (PhD Advisor)
DAMTP
Centre for Mathematical Sciences,
Wilberforce Road,
Cambridge CB3 0WA, UK
[email protected]
Dr. Stephen SL Peppin (Postdoc Advisor)
Mathematical Institute
24-29 St Giles’,
Oxford, OX1 3LB, UK
[email protected]
Prof. John S Wettlaufer (Postdoc Advisor)
Kline Geology Laboratory
210 Whitney Avenue,
New Haven, CT 06511, USA
[email protected]
Prof. Eric R Dufresne (Postdoc Advisor)
Mason Labs, Room M5
9 Hillhouse Avenue,
New Haven, CT 06511, USA
[email protected]

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