Dr Susana Gomes

Susana Gomes

Associate Professor

Office: B1.05
Phone: +44 (0)24 765 28320
Email: Susana dot Gomes at warwick dot ac dot uk

Teaching Responsibilities 2021/22:

Term 1: MA933 Stochastic Modelling and Random Processes

I organised Warwick's Applied Mathematics Seminar until the end of term 2. If you have suggestions, you should now contact Shreyas Mandre!

Research Interests:

My research interests are in applied analysis, with a focus on modelling and control of problems described by partial differential equations (PDEs) and with relevance to applications in the physical, life, and social sciences. The problems I work on usually involve an interplay between modelling, applied analysis and numerical simulations of PDEs and (systems of) ODEs or SDEs, often in multi-scale scenarios. Current projects include

Control of interfacial flows using hierarchies of models
Modelling and control for pedestrian dynamics (See a Warwick press release from when I participated in the STEM for Britain competition.)

I combine techniques such as control, stabilisation, and optimisation (including Bayesian inverse problems) in the context of each of the projects above. For more information on my research, visit my research page.

Here are links to my Google Scholar, ResearchGate, arXiv, and ORCID profiles.

Recent research grants:

EPSRC Small Grant EP/V051385/1: A new hierarchical modelling framework for active control: making waves in interfacial flow-based technologies. Co-I, with Dr. Radu Cimpeanu as PI. 02/2021 - 01/2022.
UKRI-EPSRC COVID-19 Call EP/V025899/1: COVID-19: Optimal Lockdown, Co-I, with Dr Ritabrata Dutta as PI and Dr. Dante Kalise as Co-I. 07/2020 - 01/2022.
Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship ECF-2018-536: Parameter estimation in macroscopic models for pedestrian dynamics. 09/2018-09/2021.

Most relevant recent publications:

For a full list of publications see my publications page

R. Cimpeanu, S.N. Gomes, D.T. Papageorgiou, Active control of liquid film flows: beyond reduced-order models, Nonlinear Dynamics, 104(1):267-287, 2021.
R.J. Tomlin, S.N. Gomes, G.A. Pavliotis, D.T. Papageorgiou, Optimal control of thin liquid films and transverse mode effects, SIAM Journal of Applied Dynamical Systems, 18(1), 117–149, 2019.
S.N. Gomes, G.A. Pavliotis, Mean field limits for interacting diffusions in a two-scale potential, Journal of Nonlinear Science 28(3) 905-941, 2018.
A.B. Thompson, S.N. Gomes, G.A. Pavliotis, D.T. Papageorgiou, Stabilising falling liquid film flows using feedback control, Physics of Fluids, 28, 012107, 2016.
S.N. Gomes, M. Pradas, S. Kalliadasis, D.T. Papageorgiou, G.A. Pavliotis, Controlling spatiotemporal chaos in active dissipative-dispersive nonlinear systems, Physical Review E 92, 022912, 2015.

Recent and upcoming workshops/conferences/seminars:

Continuum Mechanics and Industrial Mathematics Seminar, University of Strathclyde, March 2022. (postponed)
Invited speaker on the workshop 'Interacting Particle Systems and Applications', Trento, Italy, September 5-7 2022.
Participant in the INI workshop 'The mathematical and statistical foundation of future data-driven engineering', January-June 2023.
Invited speaker on the workshop 'Purpose-driven particle systems' at the Lorenz Center, March 13-17, 2023.