For me, the best thing about Emma is the
inter-year socialising - it makes it a lovely
community to be a part of
Dr John Sleath
MA, PhD
Life Fellow
John Sleath retired as Reader in Coastal Engineering in 2005. He was an undergraduate at St Johns College. After graduating, he worked for five years in industry (two and a half years in France) but then became excessively interested in the subject and returned to Cambridge to do a Ph.D. He was elected to a Fellowship at Emmanuel in 1968 and has been a Tutor and (occasionally) Director of Studies in Engineering.
Dr Sleath's principal research interest is the study of the movement of sand by water waves. Since it is not possible to understand how sand moves without knowing about the water motion, this has involved study of the fluid flows as well. Specific topics investigated include: (1) Pressures within the seabed (2) Fluid velocities close to the seabed (3) Turbulence in oscillatory flow (4) The formation of ripples (5) Sediment transport rates (6) Sediment suspension (7) Combined wave+current effects
For more information, see http://www.eng.cam.ac.uk/~jfas/
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Dr Tobias Wauer
It’s 8pm and I’m about to start a 12-hour shift at the national COVID-19 testing centre in Milton Keynes. Truckloads of boxes with transparent plastic bags just arrived and a brief announcement is made: 15,000 patient swabs. For now, the mood among the team is cheerful and enthusiastic, but I know it will have morphed into exhaustion and fatigue by the end of the night.