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Dr Jennifer Siggers
Lecturer
Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 3663
Fax: +44 (0)20 7594 9817
j.siggers@imperial.ac.uk

Research Intro

Mathematical modelling of medical and biological problems, especially using continuum mechanics and asymptotic methods. The fluid mechanics of the eye and of blood flow. More about the research of Dr Siggers and her group.

Research Topics and Selected Papers


1. Band , Hall , Richardson , Jensen , Siggers , Foss
Intracellular flow in optic nerve axons: a mechanism for cell death in glaucoma

Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci , 2009 , Vol: 50 , Pages: 3750 - 3758 , ISSN: 1552-5783

2. Siggers , Waters
Unsteady flows in pipes with finite curvature

J FLUID MECH , 2008 , Vol: 600 , Pages: 133 - 165 , ISSN: 0022-1120

3. Repetto , Siggers , Stocchino
Steady streaming within a periodically rotating sphere

J FLUID MECH , 2008 , Vol: 608 , Pages: 71 - 80 , ISSN: 0022-1120

4. Repetto , Siggers , Stocchino
Mathematical model of flow in the vitreous humor induced by saccadic eye rotations: effect of geometry

Biomech Model Mechanobiol , 2010 , Vol: 9 , Pages: 65 - 76 , ISSN: 1617-7940

Curriculum Vitae

2006-: Lecturer in Department of Bioengineering, Imperial College London

2008-: Honorary Research Fellow, Department of Cardiology, St Mary's NHS Hospital Trust, London

2003-2006: Research Fellow, School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nottingham

2002: Fellow, Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, MA, USA

1999-2003: PhD, Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics and Trinity College, University of Cambridge

1998-1999: MMath, Mathematics, Trinity College, University of Cambridge

1995-1998: MA, Mathematics, Trinity College, University of Cambridge

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