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Department of Earth Sciences

 
Fluid Dynamics
Petrology
Geophysics
Geodynamics and Tectonics

Biography

  • 1997 - 2001 B.A.Sc. Engineering Science: Physics, University of Toronto
  • 2001 - 2002 M.Sc. Geophysics, University of Toronto
  • 2002 - 2004 M.Phil. Geophysics, Yale University
  • 2004 - 2008 Ph.D. Geophysics, Yale University
  • 2007 - 2009 Post-doc Institute of Theoretical Geophysics, DAMTP, University of Cambridge
  • 2009 - 2011 Leverhulme Early Career Fellow and Lloyds Tercentenary Foundation Fellow
  • 2009 - 2011 Junior Research Fellow, St. Catharine's College, Cambridge
  • 2011 - 2018 University lecturer, Departments of Earth Sciences and Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge
  • 2018 - present Reader in Earth and Planetary Fluid Dynamics, Departments of Earth Sciences and Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge

Research

Earth and Planetary Fluid Dynamics

My research couples thermodynamics and fluid dynamics in multiphase systems within geophysical settings using analytical, numerical and experimental techniques. Current research is focused on the areas of multiphase flows in porous media including carbon sequestration, solidification and melting in magmatic systems and the cryosphere, on elastically dominated fluid flows in tectonic and cryospheric settings, and on the solidification of the lunar magma ocean and the generation of magnetic fields in early solar system planetesimals.

Key interests include:

* solidification and convection of binary alloys and slurries
* fluid flow in porous media
* coupling fluid flow and elastic deformation

Further details

Publications

Key publications: 

Recent publications can be found in the publications database here

Reader in Earth and Planetary Fluid Dynamics
Dr Jerome A Neufeld

Contact Details

Email address: 
BP Institute, Bullard Laboratories
Madingley Road
Cambridge, CB3 0EZ
+44 (0) 1223 765709
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