Dr Jacob Page (faculty)

I am a Reader (=Associate Professor) in Applied and Computational Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh. I’m broadly interested in turbulence in both Newtonian and more “exotic” fluids (e.g. viscoelastic substances) and implications for heat, mass and momentum mixing. I study these flows using ideas from dynamical systems theory combined with data-driven methods, with a recent focus on machine learning.

Previously, I was the Sultan Qaboos Research Fellow and a College Lecturer in Mathematics at Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, following a postdoc working with Professor Rich Kerswell (Mathematics, Bristol and then DAMTP, Cambridge). Before that I was an EPSRC Doctoral Prize Fellow at Imperial College London, where I also did my PhD with Professor Tamer Zaki (Johns Hopkins).

Our work is supported by a UKRI Frontier Research Guarantee Grant (an ERC Starting Grant), by EPSRC and the Met Office.

Contact: jacob.page@ed.ac.uk

Dr Jacob Holford (postdoc 2025— )

Dr Lu Zhu (postdoc 2025— )

Lu is working on automatic differentiation and optimisation problems in Newtonian and non-Newtonian flows.

Dr Dmitriy Zhigunov (postdoc 2024— )

Dmitriy is a postdoc who has joined us from Georgia Institute of Technology. He will be working on data-driven approaches for the dynamical systems view of turbulence.

Dr Markus Scherer (visiting researcher, 2024—)

Markus is a postdoc from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. He is working on data-driven approaches to periodic orbit convergence.

John Hamilton (PhD student 2025— )

Co-supervised with Anna Lisa Varri (Maths/Physics, Edinburgh)

Hamish Lister (PhD student 2024— )

Reinforcement learning for flow control (with Georgios Rigas, Imperial College London).

Alex Richardson-Jones (PhD student 2024— )

Instabilities and turbulence in viscoelastic fluids.

Fan Xu (PhD student 2024— )

ML for ocean turbulence. Co-supervised with James Maddison (Maths, Edinburgh).

Maria Li (PhD student - DAMTP, Cambridge 2019— )

Maria is a doctoral student based in DAMTP, Cambridge. Her primary supervisor is Colm Caulfield.

Former members:

Andrew Cleary (PhD student 2021—25) — now postdoc at Johns Hopkins

Joe Holey (PhD student - DAMTP, Cambridge 2021—25; co-advised with Rich Kerswell)

Dr Andhini Zurman-Nasution (postdoc 2025)

Dr Miguel Beneitez (postdoc - DAMTP, Cambridge, 2021—24; co-advised with Rich Kerswell) — now Lecturer at Manchester University