Professor Dr. Wouter Mostert

Biography

Wouter Mostert earned his PhD from the University of Queensland in 2015, focusing on hydrodynamic stability and magnetohydrodynamic implosions with applications in inertial fusion energy and shock wave propagation. After his PhD, he conducted postdoctoral research at Caltech and continued studies on breaking ocean waves at Princeton University. Subsequently, he served as an Assistant Professor at the Missouri University of Science and Technology before joining the University of Oxford's Environmental Fluid Mechanics group. His research interests center around fluid mechanics, specifically air-sea interaction and the flux of mass, momentum, and energy, primarily caused by wave breaking and the dynamics of bubbles and droplets. He is also interested in the effects of ocean wave systems on sediment and pollutant transport and the understanding of wave loadings on civil infrastructure. Currently, his interests include energy understanding, bubble and droplet statistics in plunging breakers, wind-driven spume generation processes in ocean waves, and the dissipative properties of shallow-water breakers and their impact on coastal wave systems. He is a member of the Environmental Fluid Mechanics research group.

Research Interests