Isaac V. Chenchiah
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I am a senior lecturer (in the US this would be associate professor) in the School of Mathematics at the University of Bristol.

My expertise lies at the interface between mathematics on one hand and solid mechanics, mechanical / aerospace engineering and biology on the other hand. See my CV for more about my education and employment history.

Research
​Specific areas of interest in solid mechanics include microstructure formation and evolution, especially in multiphase solids. On the biological side I am interested in tissue mechanics, especially growth; plant mechanics and viral mechanics. Viral mechanics has also been the inspiration for my engineering research on morphing structures. See my research page for more details.
Teaching
​Currently I teach Ordinary Differential Equations (i.e., Dynamical Systems) for second-year mathematics majors. I was voted one of the best teachers in the School of Mathematics every year during 2010-17.
Leisure
My broader intellectual interests include ancient Greek philosophy (Plato, Aristotle and the neo-Platonists), the Byzantine intellectual tradition and medieval western thought, especially Thomas Aquinas and the subsequent Thomist tradition. I'm also learning to play the cello under the able guidance of Alison Gillies.

News


Thesis
20 Sep 2019
Maximillian Dixon submitted his doctoral dissertation on Nonlinear Lattice Structures: A Numerical and Analytical Study on their Stability.
Morphing Structures

Publication
30 August 2019
Multiscale Tailoring of Helical Lattice Systems for Bespoke Thermoelasticity
Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 133, 103704, Dec 2019
Morphing Structures

Talk
24 Oct 2018
Virus-Inspired Bespoke Nonlinear Elasticity
Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester
Bio-Inspired Mechanics
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