Mark Simmons

Co-Investigator

Mark Simmons is a Chemical Engineer and Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the University of Birmingham. He has been Head of School since 2014. Mark graduated from the University of Nottingham in 1995 with a Masters in Chemical Engineering and stayed on to undertake PhD study with Professor Barry Azzopardi in the area of liquid-liquid flows of interest to the oil and gas industry. Following graduation in 1999, Mark spent a year in the USA undertaking a postdoc position with Prof Thomas Hanratty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign before joining the University of Birmingham as a lecturer in 2000. Since joining the University of Birmingham, Mark has established an internationally recognised research activity in the area of multiphase processing of complex fluids, funded by UK research councils and industry. Mark is a Fellow of the Institution of Chemical Engineers and a Chartered Engineer.