Updates

Last week I was in Helsinki, tailcoat and all, to serve as the opponent in the PhD defence of Jani Strömberg.

Yesterday was graduation day at Imperial College London, and it was fantastic to see former group members Sam Owens, Chris Wilson and Rodrigo Ribeiro, PhD graduate with their PhDs.

Maarten's LinkedIn post on the new lab website — a decade of planning brought to life in a couple of days using agentic software engineering, pulling content directly from ORCID, arXiv, GitHub, and Zenodo.

We are pleased to share our latest work on the urban surface-energy balance, led by former PhD student (soon to be Dr) Chris Wilson with collaborators Athanasios Paschalis (University of Cyprus), Sylvia Bohnenstengel (Met Office) and Jon Shonk (Met Office).

Cities don’t heat up evenly.

PhD opportunity for uk students

Maarten's LinkedIn post on a new open-access Atmospheric Environment paper about trees and pollutant dispersion in street canyons.

A great joint Urban Fluid Mechanics / Wind Engineering Society meeting last Tuesday at Imperial Civil and Environmental Engineering.

The next Urban Fluid Mechanics Special Interest group meeting will be held together with the Wind Engineering Society on December 16 at Imperial.

Maarten's LinkedIn post on Lianzheng Cui's Journal of Fluid Mechanics paper on inclined gravity currents.

Maarten's LinkedIn post on Dipanjan Majumdar's Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics paper on tree-canopy drag.

Maarten's LinkedIn post linking to the Boundary-Layer Meteorology paper on multi-scale flow over heterogeneous urban environments.