Nicholas Kevlahan
Professor, Mathematics and Statistics

Dr Nicholas Kevlahan is a Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McMaster University. He has a BSc from the University of British Columbia, a PhD from the University of Cambridge and was a Marie Curie post-doctoral fellow at École Normale Supérieure (Paris). He has been an invited professor at Université Grenoble-Alpes, INRIA, École Normale Supérieure (Paris), École Polytechnique (Paris), and a visiting researcher at the University of Cambridge. His interdisciplinary research program is focused on advanced mathematical and computational methods for fluid dynamics problems from physics and engineering. Current research includes developing the WAVETRISK code for dynamically adaptive climate modelling, data assimilation techniques, fluid-structure interaction and compressive sampling. He has an active research group of PhD, MSc and BSc students from a wide diversity of backgrounds.