Timothy J. Pedley#
| Membership Number: | 2915 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2011 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tjp3 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 - 2012 President of IUTAM (International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics)
- 2000 - 2005 Head of DAMTP (Department of Applied and Mathematics and Theoretical Physics), Cambridge University
- 1996 - 2009 G.I. Professor of Fluid Mechanics of Cambridge University
- 1990 - 1996 Professor of Applied Mathematics, Leeds University
- 1973 - today Department of Applied and Mathematics and Theoretical Physics(DAMTP), Cambridge University
Fields of Scholarship
- Fluid Mechanics
- Blood flow and wall shear stress in arteries
- Gas flow and mixing in pulmonary airways
- Flow and self-excited oscillations in collapsible tubes
- Peristaltic pumping in the ureter
- Modelling salt and water transport across cell membranes and pumping epithelia
- Fish swimming
- Insect aerodynamics
- Aquatic filter feeding
- Bioconvective pattern formation in suspensions of swimming micro-organisms
- Development of macroscopic or continuum models of populations of biologicalorganisms
Honours and Awards
- 1995 Fellow of the Royal Society
