Professor Alfonso A. Castrejon-Pita obtained his D.Phil. in Physics at the University of Oxford, funded by a prestigious Dorothy Hodgkin Postgraduate award. His research was centred on experimental and theoretical studies of synchronization phenomena in fluids. This was followed by a postdoctoral position in the same laboratory funded by NERC (Natural Environment Research Council, UK) that led to the experimental demonstration of synchronisation of chaos in mutually-coupled fluid flows, with greater implications in atmospheric dynamics such as weather forecast.
From April 2011 to September 2013 he was a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, and a researcher at St. John’s College, where he redirected his research towards a better understanding of the dynamics of small-scale free surface flows.
Alfonso was awarded a Royal Society University Research Fellowship in October 2013 which he holds at the University of Oxford, where is also an Associate Professor in Fluid Mechanics and a Tutorial Fellow at Wadham College. In Oxford, he established the Fluid Dynamics Laboratory for (mainly) the study of drops and liquid jets. He also supervises the research of MEng, MSc(R) and DPhil students in the Department and in College.
