Dr Tom Arnot

Tom’s research falls into two main areas: sustainable water and waste water treatment, and novel drug delivery systems/responsive wound dressings. On the water treatment side he works on renewable energy via anaerobic digestion, membrane bioreactors for water recovery from domestic waste streams, and algal photo-bioreactors for nutrient capture. Modelling challenges involve multi-parameter estimation in complex algebraic, ODE, and PDE equation systems. The work on responsive wound dressings involves the development of nanoemulsions to act as mimics of cell membranes, and hence carry bacteriophage to a wound site and prevent infection. These provide interesting fluid flow, transport, and multi-species interaction problems to model.

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