Paul Linden

University of Cambridge

Biography:

Paul is Director of Research and the GI Taylor Professor Emeritus of Fluid Mechanics in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, and Professorial Fellow Emeritus of Downing College, University of Cambridge. He is also the Blasker Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Environmental Science and Engineering in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UC San Diego. While at UC San Diego he was chair of the MAE department (2004-2009), the Director of the Environment and Sustainability Initiative (2007-2009) and the founding Director of the Sustainability Solutions Institute (2009-2010). He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Royal Meteorological Society, Academia Europaea, the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications, and the Royal Society.
Paul is a fluid dynamicist and his research is concerned with fluid flow in the environment and in industry. In particular, he is interested in flow and turbulence in stratified and two-phase fluids, the fluid dynamics of advanced, naturally ventilated and low-energy buildings, and flows on large scales where the rotation of the Earth is important. He uses laboratory experiments and theoretical models to elucidate the relevant physical processes underlying these flows and to provide predictions of their properties that can be applied in practice. Paul is the Editor of JFM Perspectives.
He currently leads three major projects. An Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) Grand Challenge grant on Future Cities: Managing Air for Green Inner Cities (MAGIC) from 2015-2021, a European Research Council Advanced Grant on Stratified Turbulence and Mixing Processes (STAMP) 2017-2023, and a NERC Clean Air Network on Tackling Air Pollution at School (TAPAS) 2020-2023. He leads a new UKRI project on Covid-19 COvid Transmission Risk Assessment Case studies – Education establishments (CO-TRACE) is also an investigator on two other Covid-19 UKRI grants (2020-2022) Transport Risk Assessment for COVID Knowledge (TRACK) and Risk EvaLuatIon fAst iNtelligent Tool for COVID19 (RELIANT). He led the Royal Society RAMP programme on airborne transmission of Covid and he has recently published two papers on the airborne transmission of Covid-19.

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