ProfessorMathieu Sellier

Mathieu Sellier is Professor of Fluid Mechanics in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Canterbury (New Zealand). He graduated with a Master in “Modelling and Simulation in Mechanics” from Université Grenoble Alpes (France) in 2000 and then got his PhD from the University of Leeds (UK) in 2003. From 2003 to 2006, he was a PostDoc at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics (Kaiserslautern, Germany) in the Marie-Curie Research Training Network MAGICAL (Mathematics for the Glass Industry Computations and Analysis). Prof Sellier started at the University of Canterbury as a lecturer in Theoretical Fluid Mechanics in 2006 and now leads the Interfaces and Inverse Problems lab (I&IP). His research interests are broad but typically revolve around modelling free surface or multiphase flow phenomena at small scales for which capillary and wetting phenomena dominate (droplets and thin film flows) or at large geophysical scales (river or glacier flows). Prof Sellier’s other area of research expertise is related to inverse problems for which one tries to infer the unknown causes of observed phenomena.