Current research is aimed at understanding fundamental processes such as the flow past obstacles, shock waves, dead-zones, fluid-solid phase transitions, particle size segregation and pattern formation. A novel and important feature of all my work is the close interplay of theory, numerical computation and experiment to investigate these nonlinear systems. I currently have three active experiments which are housed in two laboratories at the Manchester Centre for Nonlinear Dynamics. You can click on the videos and pictures as well as the adjacent toolbar to find out more about specific problems that I am interested in.