Rahil Valani

Undergraduate aerospace engineering and science, Monash University, Australia.

PhD, Monash University, Australia.

I discovered a new class of active particle-fluid system coined superwalking droplets, and characterised it using a combination of experiments, theoretical analysis, and numerical modelling. This system opens avenues in areas of hydrodynamic quantum analogues and active matter.

In previous postdoctoral research at the University of Adelaide in Australia, I investigated a passive particle-fluid system of the inertial migration of particles in curved duct fluid flow. This work has implications for design of biomedical and industrial inertial microfluidic sorters that are aimed at separating particles by size.

Currently at Oxford, I work with active matter models to understand collective behaviours of biological cells. In addition, I am developing new models for active matter with chaotic internal states.