Lois Baker

Flora Philip Fellow
School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh

Ocean simulation showing turbulence above rough seafloor topography

I’m hiring! Two three-year postdoctoral positions to study the small-scale fluid dynamics of the Arctic Ocean. Closing date 14 October 2026. Find out more →

I’m a research fellow in the School of Mathematics at the University of Edinburgh, currently funded by a Flora Philip Fellowship and starting November 2026, a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship. I coordinate the Edinburgh Fluid Dynamics Group, a trans-disciplinary research group spanning fluid dynamics research across the University.

I’m currently building a tool for Lagrangian Filtering to separate waves from mean flows in Oceananigans.jl - check it out here! OceananigansLagrangianFilter.jl

Interests

  • Internal waves
  • Ocean mixing
  • Flow-topography interaction
  • Lagrangian methods

Career

Future Leaders Fellow
University of Edinburgh · Starting November 2026

Flora Philip Fellow and EPSRC National Fellow in Fluid Dynamics
University of Edinburgh · 2023–2026

PhD in Physical Oceanography
Imperial College London · 2018–2023

Summer Research Fellow
Woods Hole Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program · 2019

BA + MMath in Mathematics
University of Cambridge · 2016