Omar Matar

Principal Investigator

Professor Omar Matar, Director of Research and Vice-Dean (Education) began his career at Imperial College London as an undergraduate in 1989. He graduated in 1993 with an MEng in Chemical Engineering. Following the completion of his PhD at Princeton University, he returned to the Department of Chemical Engineering as a Lecturer in 1998, progressing to Senior Lecturer in 2003, and to Professor of Fluid Mechanics in 2007. During this time he has taken on additional roles including Undergraduate Admissions Tutor and Director of Undergraduate Studies. He currently holds the positions of Director of Research for Chemical Engineering, and Vice-Dean (Education) alongside his teaching responsibilities and managing the Matar Fluids Group. In 2015 he also became Fellow of the American Physical Society. An expert in fluid mechanics, his research interests include multiphase flows, applied mathematics, modelling, and computational fluid dynamics, complex fluids and interfacial fluid mechanics.