Lois Baker
Flora Philip Fellow and EPSRC National Fellow in Fluid Dynamics
School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh
Biography
I’m a postdoctoral fellow in the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, funded by a Flora Philip Fellowship and the EPSRC National Fellowships in Fluid Dynamics. My research involves using mathematical and numerical models to understand oceanic fluid dynamics. In particular, I’m interested in the interactions of internal waves and submesoscale vortices that are generated in the deep and upper ocean.
Interests
- Internal waves
- Ocean mixing
- Flow-topography interaction
- Lagrangian methods
Education
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PhD in Physical Oceanography, 2018 - 2023
Imperial College London
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MMath in Mathematics, 2016
The University of Cambridge
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MA in Mathematics, 2015
The University of Cambridge
Experience
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Supported by the EPSRC National Fellowships in Fluid Dynamics and the University of Edinburgh Flora Philip Fellowship.
Summer Research Student
8 week research project using TAO mooring data to validate Pacific equatorial meridional overturning circulation (MOC) oscillations in a global ocean model. Supervised by Dr. Mike Bell (Met Office, Exeter) and Dr. Adam Blaker (NOC, Southampton).
Graduate Teaching Assistant
Tutorials and marking for undergraduate and masters courses:
- Fluid Mechanics Fundamentals (MSc)
- Fluid Mechanics (3rd Year)
- Computational Engineering Analysis (3rd Year)
- Professional Engineering Practice (1st Year)
Summer Research Fellow
10 week summer school on ‘Stratified Turbulence and Oceanic Mixing Properties’, including a research project on superharmonics of internal tides in non-uniform stratification, supervised by Prof. Bruce Sutherland.
Account Manager
Client facing role at an award winning digital marketing agency, running paid search accounts for major clients. My job involved performing data analysis and optimisation on large data sets, and presenting results to senior decision-makers.
Summer Research Student
Undergraduate summer research project supervised by Dr. John Taylor, using idealised simulations to investigate the impact of internal waves and convection on reactive biogeochemical tracers.
Publications
Our recent paper in AGU Advances (see below!) was chosen as an Editor’s Highlight - as explained by Nicolas Gruber in Eos.
