Here is a brief version of my CV. Further details of my interests and activities can be be found in different sections of this website.
Honours and Awards
UPSU SSTAR Faculty Winner for the Most Innovative Use Of Teaching Methods 2016 The Plymouth University Students’ Union SSTAR Awards recognise excellent teaching within the university that engages students and encourages and improves learning.
Vernon Harrison Doctoral Prize Winner 2007 The Vernon Harrison Annual Doctoral Prize of the British Society of Rheology is an award for the most distinguished PhD thesis in rheology and is awarded to the postgraduate member who has made the most original and significant contribution to any branch of rheological research.
Visiting fellow of Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Awarded a visiting fellowship as part of the Beijing Computational Science Research program between June–August 2012
Visiting fellow of the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge Awarded a visiting fellowship as part of the Partial Differential Equations in Kinetic Theories program between September–October 2010
SUUG Student-Led Teaching Award nomination for the Extra Mile award
Invited short courses
- An Introduction to the lattice Boltzmann Method, OpenLB Lattice Boltzmann Spring School, February 2019 (Mannheim, Germany), March 2020 (Berlin, Germany)
- Boundary Conditions for the Lattice Boltzmann Equation, OpenLB Lattice Boltzmann Spring School, 2016-2020 (annually )
- UK Graduate Mathematical Modelling Camp, University of Oxford, March 2016
- Mathematical Modelling for Graduate Students, Dresden University, August 2012
- An Introduction to the Lattice Boltzmann Boundary Conditions, Tsinghua University, July 2012
PhD students
- Zainab bu Sinnah (PhD, Plymouth University): Lattice Boltzmann method for 2D and 3D flows in channels an ducts with slip and no-slip walls Completed August 2020
- Norjan Jumma (PhD, Plymouth University): Lattice Boltzmann method for multiphse flow with high density ratio Completed August 2020
- Seemaa Mohammed (PhD, Plymouth University): The lattice Boltzmann method for flows with slip and no-slip boundaries; Completed January 2019
- Ivars Krastins (PhD, University of Greenwich): Parallel lattice Boltzmann method fro convection in dendritic solidification; Completed December 2019
- Ebtesam Alousta (PhD, Plymouth University): Modelling of Fatigue Crack Closure via the Concept of Plastic Inclusions; Completed December 2018
- Rebecca Allen (PhD, KAUST): Modelling diffusion and buoyancy–driven convection with applications to geological CO2 storage; Completed July 2015
- Stuart Thomson (Summer Intern., University of Glasgow): Discrete kinetic modelling of the Freedericksz transition in liquid crystals; June–September 2012
- Andreas Hantsch (PhD, University of Freiberg): Lattice Boltzmann models for thermal multiphase flows; Completed December 2012
- Mokhles Mnelja (visiting student, Tunisia), Lattice Boltzmann equation for non-ideal gasses}, September–December 2009
Academic Employment
- Associate Professor, School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Greenwich, September 2021–present
- Senior Lecurer, School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Greenwich, September 2016–August 2021
- Lecturer in Applied Mathematics, School of Computing, Electronics and Mathematics, University of Plymouth, September 2013–August 2016
- Junior Researh Fellow, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, January 2012–August 2013
- Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford, January 2009–December 2011 (Supervisor: Paul Dellar)
- Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Department of Mathematics, University College London, Post-Doctoral Research Assistant, September 2007-December 2008 (Supervisor: Helen Wilson)
Education
- PhD (2007) “The lattice Boltzmann Method for Complex Flows” (Supervisor: Tim Phillips), School of Mathematics, Cardiff University
- MSc, Complex Fluids (2003), BSc Hons, Mathematics (2002) Department of Mathematics, University of Wales Aberystwyth
- Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (Fellow of the HEA) (2014) Plymouth University
Outreach activities
IMA Festival of Mathematics, Walking of Custard activity, 27-28 June 2017 and 25-26 June 2019
Filmed for Food Unwrapped, episode about non-Newtonian fluids in food
Butlins Astonishing Science Weekends (with Dan Colman Creative Ltd) Butlins Holiday Camp (Minehead September 2016, Skegness, June 2016, Bognor Regis April 2016, and Minehead September 2015
Ronaldo, the BFG, and the mathematics they share, National Science Week, April 2014
Fluids, solids, and the strange things in-between Let Maths Take you Further, June 2014
Other Organisation and Duties
- Editorial Board member of the International Journal of Computer Mathematics
- International Conference for Mesoscopic Methods in Engineering and Science (ICMMES)
- Oxford lattice Boltzmann workshop 13-14 September 2010 and 1-2 September 2011
- Guest editor of Computers and Fluids, Computers and Mathematics with Applications and Communications in Computational Physics (2017)
- Regularly review articles for top international journals
Dr Tim Reis 