Dr Claire McIlroy
- Position: Lecturer
- Areas of expertise: non-Newtonian fluid mechanics; polymer dynamics; printing techniques
- Email: C.McIlroy@leeds.ac.uk
- Location: Maths Research Deck
Profile
I completed my PhD “Complex Inkjets: Polymers, Particles, & Non-Linear Driving” at the University of Leeds in 2014. I then moved to Georgetown University, Washington DC for a post-doctoral position in the Institute for Soft Matter Synthesis and Metrology. Here I worked in collaboration with NIST to better understand extrusion-based 3D printing via a mathematical modelling approach. In 2017, I was awarded a Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 independent research fellowship to study “Semi-crystalline materials for Additive Manufacturing”, which I held at the University of Nottingham. From 2019-2024, I was a Lecturer in the School of Maths & Physics at the University of Lincoln within the Centre for Computational Physics. In 2024, I returned to the University of Leeds as a Lecturer in Applied Mathematics.
Research interests
My research focuses on the theory and modelling of complex non-Newtonian fluids for industrial flow applications and I have expertise in rheology, inkjet printing, and additive manufacturing.
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