Matthew Hennessy 

University of Bristol

Matt completed a DPhil in Applied Mathematics at the University of Oxford in 2014.  Afterwards, he held a postdoctoral fellowship at Imperial College London, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship at the Centre de Recerca Matemàtica in Barcelona, and a Hooke Research Fellowship at the University of Oxford.  In 2021, he joined the University of Bristol as a Lecturer in Engineering Mathematics.  His research focuses on the continuum modelling of complex materials.  He is especially interested in instability-driven pattern formation in polymeric systems and its application to functional materials.