DrAdrian Callaghan

Overview

My research group studies ocean waves and ocean-atmosphere exchange processes using a combination of laboratory experiments, ocean observations and numerical modelling, with a particular focus on wave breaking, air entrainment and bubble-mediated processes. 

I joined the department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Imperial College London as Senior Lecturer in November 2017 after having been a Royal Society Shooter International Research Fellow. Before this I worked as a Project Scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in the University of California, San Diego. Befroe this I completed my Ph.D. in Physical Oceanography in 2009 at the National Univeristy of Ireland, Galway.

Research Group Opportunities
I am always keen to add curious, motivated and hard-working students and researchers with an interest in ocean waves, air-sea interaction and small-scale fluid dynamics to my research group. Please email me if you are interested to start a conversation.

I am currently recruiting PhD students, postdoctoral research associates and visiting researchers who want to work in the following areas:

• The role of non-linear wave-wave interaction in extreme wave formation.
• Space-time statistics of ocean waves with a focus on wave breaking.
• Stereovision observation of ocean waves.
• Numerical/Physical modelling of ocean-atmosphere carbon dioxide transfer and its role in climate change.
• Physical modelling of air entrainment rates in coastal breaking waves with applications in ocean-atmosphere interaction.
• Physical modelling of energy dissipation in directionally-spread breaking waves.
• Direct Numerical Simulations of air-entrainment in directionally-spread breaking waves with Basilisk.
• Acoustics of air entrainment in breaking waves.
• Transport of microplastic particles by bubbles in the ocean.