Research:

I am an applied mathematician and engineer. My research concerns continuum mechanics, i.e. how fluids and solids deform and interact, and how that sets the shapes and motions of living and engineered things. Current problems include the mechanics of the human foot and of fish fins, flowing soap films, the cheapest way to move a body through a fluid, and the flow through and around wind farms, which limits how much energy they can produce. Between 2013 and 2017 I led an ARPA-E programme at Brown University that took an oscillating hydrofoil for tidal and river power from theory to prototypes tested in open water. My work on the arches of the human foot appeared in Nature in 2020.

Department:

I joined the Department of Engineering in 2023, after posts at the Warwick Mathematics Institute, Brown University and Harvard. My PhD is in mathematics from the University of British Columbia, and my first degree is in mechanical engineering from IIT Bombay. I lead the module on wind, wave, tidal and hydro power on the MPhil in Energy Technologies and teach flow instability in Part IIB (4A10), and I have taught dimensional analysis in Part IA. My lecture notes on fluid dynamics, dimensional analysis, interfaces and flow instability are freely available online.

For applicants:

I supervise PhD and MPhil students and summer interns. Projects and funding routes are listed on my website, www.shreyasmandre.com/openings/.

College:

I was admitted as an Official Fellow of Queens’ in October 2025, and I supervise Part IB Engineering students for the College.