About me

Hi, my name is Josh Williams! I am a computational scientist at STFC, Hartree Centre. I obtained a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, UK), funded by the Carnegie-Trust for the Universities of Scotland. My research is focussed towards improving dispersion and deposition of inhaled therapeutics in respiratory patients’ lungs.

My main research interests include:

• Mathematical modelling
  • Computational fluid dynamics with OpenFOAM (multiphase flows and biofluids)
  • Granular flows (LIGGGHTS/CFDEMcoupling)
• Combining machine learning with physical modelling
  • Neural differential equations (paper link)
• Image-processing
  • Convolutional neural networks
  • Statistical shape and appearance models