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Faculty of Mathematics

 

Career

  • 2026 - present:  Associate Professor in Biological Physics & Fluid Dynamics, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
  • 2025 - present:  Associate Professor in Soft Matter, Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam
  • 2021 - 2025: Assistant Professor in Soft Matter, Institute of Physics, University of Amsterdam
  • 2019-2021: Wellcome Trust Interdisciplinary & Leverhulme Early Career Postdoc Fellow, DAMTP, University of Cambridge 
  • 2017-2019: Postdoc, Physics of Fluids Group, University of Twente
  • 2012-2017: Ph.D., Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of British Columbia

 

My research mainly focuses on fluid dynamics, soft matter, and biological physics. Our team combines experiments, computation, and theory to study the flow of complex fluids and the biophysics of living organisms, addressing industrial, medical, and environmental challenges. Please see my personal webpage for more information: https://www.fluidlab.nl/

 

 

Publications

On the rheology of Pluronic F127 aqueous solutions
M Jalaal, G Cottrell, N Balmforth, B Stoeber
– Journal of Rheology
(2017)
61,
139
Long bubbles in tubes filled with viscoplastic fluid
M Jalaal, NJ Balmforth
– Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics
(2016)
238,
100
Slip of spreading viscoplastic droplets
M Jalaal, NJ Balmforth, B Stoeber
– Langmuir : the ACS journal of surfaces and colloids
(2015)
31,
12071
Transient growth of droplet instabilities in a stream
M Jalaal, K Mehravaran
– Physics of Fluids
(2014)
26,
012101
Controlled spreading of thermo-responsive droplets
M Jalaal, B Stoeber
– Soft matter
(2014)
10,
808
Electrohydrodynamic (EHD) mixing of two miscible dielectric liquids
M Jalaal, B Khorshidi, E Esmaeilzadeh
– Chemical Engineering Journal
(2013)
219,
118
Fragmentation of falling liquid droplets in bag breakup mode
M Jalaal, K Mehravaran
– International Journal of Multiphase Flow
(2012)
47,
115
The Effect of Temperature Dependency of Surface Emissivity in 1-D and 2-D Nonlinear Heat Radiation Equations
M Jalaal, K Mehravaran, A Phillion
– Heat Transfer Engineering
(2012)
33,
982
Numerical simulation of electric field in complex geometries for different electrode arrangements using meshless local MQ-DQ method
M Jalaal, S Soleimani, G Domairry, E Ghasemi, H Bararnia, F Mohammadi, A Barari
– Journal of Electrostatics
(2011)
69,
168
Electrohydrodynamic instability at the interface between two leaky dielectric fluid layers
B Khorshidi, M Jalaal, E Esmaeilzadeh
– Colloids and Surfaces A Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects
(2011)
380,
207
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Research Groups

Biological Physics and Mechanics
Fluid Mechanics
Solid Mechanics
Theoretical Geophysics

Room

H0.12

Telephone

01223 764043

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