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Dr Ciro Semprebon

Associate Professor

Department: Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering

I joined Northumbria as Vice-Chancellor fellow in the MDRT of Future Engineering in 2016. I graduated as a Doctor in Physics in Padova (Italy) in 2009. I then moved to Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organisation (MPI-DS) in Göttingen (Germany). More recently I worked as a post-doc in the Department of Physics at Durham University and in the department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Edinburgh.

Campus Address

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Ellison Building
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE1 8ST

Key Publications

Transforming Auxetic Metamaterials into Superhydrophobic Surfaces, McHale, G., Alderson, A., Armstrong, S., Mandhani, S., Meyari, M., Wells, G., Carter, E., Ledesma Aguilar, R., Semprebon, C., Evans, K. 1 Apr 2024, In: Small Structures
Impact Dynamics of Non-Newtonian Droplets on Superhydrophobic Surfaces, Biroun, M., Haworth, L., Abdolnezhad, H., Khosravi, A., Agrawal, P., McHale, G., Torun, H., Semprebon, C., Jabbari, M., Fu, Y. 25 Apr 2023, In: Langmuir
Wetting transitions on superhydrophobic auxetic metamaterials, Armstrong, S., McHale, G., Alderson, A., Mandhani, S., Meyari, M., Wells, G., Carter, E., Ledesma Aguilar, R., Semprebon, C. Oct 2023, In: Applied Physics Letters
Modeling the dynamics of partially wetting droplets on fibers, Christianto, R., Rahmawan, Y., Semprebon, C., Kusumaatmaja, H. 24 Oct 2022, In: Physical Review Fluids
Apparent contact angle of drops on liquid infused surfaces: geometric interpretation, Semprebon, C., Sadullah, M., McHale, G., Kusumaatmaja, H. 14 Nov 2021, In: Soft Matter
Capillary Bridges on Liquid-Infused Surfaces, Shek, A., Semprebon, C., Panter, J., Kusumaatmaja, H. 19 Jan 2021, In: Langmuir
Modeling ternary fluids in contact with elastic membranes, Pepona, M., Shek, A., Semprebon, C., Krüger, T., Kusumaatmaja, H. 8 Feb 2021, In: Physical review. E
Modelling double emulsion formation in planar fow-focusing microchannels, Wang, N., Semprebon, C., Liu, H., Zhang, C., Kusumaatmaja, H. 25 Jul 2020, In: Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Wetting boundaries for a ternary high-density-ratio lattice Boltzmann method, Bala, N., Pepona, M., Karlin, I., Kusumaatmaja, H., Semprebon, C. Jul 2019, In: Physical review. E
Drop dynamics on Liquid Infused Surfaces: The Role of the Wetting Ridge, Sadullah, M., Semprebon, C., Kusumaatmaja, H. 10 Jul 2018, In: Langmuir

Qualifications

Physics PhD July 01 2009

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