Dr. Helen Wilson

Biography

Helen Wilson studied mathematics at the University of Cambridge, where she completed her PhD project focused on shear flow instabilities in viscoelastic fluids. She then conducted postdoctoral research on suspension mechanics at the Chemical Engineering department of the University of Colorado at Boulder. In 2000, she returned to the UK to take up a lectureship in Applied Mathematics at the University of Leeds, and moved to University College London (UCL) in 2004. Wilson has served as an editor for the Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics and is a member of the Editorial Advisory Board for Physics of Fluids. She chairs the Nominating Committee for the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences Scientific Steering Committee and is an external member of the UKRI Oversight Committee at the Heilbronn Institute for Mathematical Research. Wilson is the President of the British Society of Rheology and the Vice-President of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications. She has a strong track record in outreach activities, including talks related to a chocolate fountain project undertaken with her student Adam Townsend.

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