Visiting Scholars

Khuram Walayat

Postdoctoral researcher, University of Warwick, Fall 2024.

Research: Dr. Khuram Walayat is a Research Fellow in the Chemistry Department at the University of Warwick. Prior to this role, he held the prestigious position of a Marie Curie individual fellow at the Institute for Materials and Processes, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh. Earlier in his career, he worked as a post-doctoral research fellow at the Department of Thermal and Fluid Engineering (TFE), Faculty of Engineering Technology (ET), The University of Twente. Khuram earned his Ph.D. degree from Peking University, Beijing, China. His research interests include particle impact erosion, particulate flows, fluid-solid interaction, multi-phase flows involving energy storage, energy exchange, phase change, thermochemical and electrochemical reactions, and magnetohydrodynamic phenomena.

Matthias Kura

Graduate Researcher, Technical University of Munich. May 2024 – August 2024.

Research: I am an MS student in Aerospace Engineering at the Technical University of Munich. After my undergraduate research on fuel sloshing in the LGST lab during my exchange semester, I am happy to work with Prof. Romero-Calvo again for my thesis project. Together with Prof. Gisela Detrell, Professor of Human Spaceflight Technology at TUM, I am exploring the use of magnetic phase separation mechanisms in microalgae photobioreactors. With my research, I want to improve microalgae cultivation techniques for air revitalization and food production to enable ever more ambitious human missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond.