Dr Monica Oliveira
Senior Lecturer
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Personal statement
Mónica Oliveira is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering. She has a PhD in Chemical & Process Engineering from Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, UK), and a first degree in Chemical Engineering from the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto (Portugal). She held a postdoc position in the Non-Newtonian Fluid Dynamics Research Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge MA, USA), after which she returned to the University of Porto to join CEFT (Transport Phenomena Research Centre) where she held a research position until 2012. Her research focuses on fluid flows and transport phenomena, in particular the rheology of complex fluids, non-Newtonian fluid dynamics and microfluidics. Mónica publishes her research results in leading international journals including Physical Review Letters, Physics of Fluids, Microfluidics & Nanofluidics, Soft Matter and Journal of Fluid Mechanics. She is a member of both the Society of Rheology, the European Society of Rheology and the British Society of Rheology.
Area of Expertise
- Complex Fluid Flows
- Microfluidics
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Rheology (shear and extension)
- Microdevice design/optimisation
Prize And Awards
- Chaires Paris-Science 2024 Invited Professorship Award – ESPCI, Paris.
- Recipient
- 2024
- Secretary of the European Society of Rheology
- Recipient
- 2023
- Honorary Membership Secretary
- Recipient
- 2022
- Strathclyde Team Medal
- Recipient
- 2019
- Teaching Excellence Award Nomination
- Recipient
- 2019
- FEUP Scientific Incentive Prize in recognition of excellence in research outcomes
- Recipient
- 2012
Publications
- Experimental analysis of Rayleigh‐Bénard convection in the weakly elastic regime : insights from water‐based liquid bridges
- Aljanadi Ahmed, Oliveira Monica, Lappa Marcello
- 38th Scottish Fluid Mechanics Meeting (2025)
- Single molecule dynamics in microfluidic flows with different kinematics
- Khakpour Arezoo, Robinson Samatha, Li Zhibo, du Roure Olivia, Chaparian Emad, Lindner Anke, Oliveira Monica
- Annual European Rheology Conference (AERC 2025) (2025)
- Rheology and sensorial properties in traditional and plant-based (vegan) shortbread
- Mohamed Khalifa, Jenkins Peter, Oliveira Mónica S N, Simmchen Juliane
- Physics of Fluids Vol 37 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0255346
- Impact of temperature on ophthalmic viscosurgical devices and clinical implications : a pilot study
- Henry Caoimhe, Castro Alejandro Thompson, Belkessa Mohamed, Rycroft Ewan, Syntouka Ioanna M, Silva Andreia, Sillars Fiona, Oliveira Mónica SN, Lockington David
- Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Vol 50, pp. 1173-1179 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1097/j.jcrs.0000000000001513
- Editorial for XXI International Workshop on Numerical Methods for non-Newtonian Flows 2023
- Oliveira Mónica SN, Zografos Konstantinos, Ellero Marco, Anderson Patrick D, Poole Robert J
- Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics Vol 332 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnnfm.2024.105296
- Microfluidic manufacture of composite fibers for biomedical applications
- Dores Rodrigo, Oliveira Mónica SN, Bimbo Luis M
- Advanced Materials Technologies Vol 10 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.202400976
Research Interests
Mónica is interested in fluid flows and transport phenomena. Currently, a major part of her research focus on rheology and flow of complex fluids in microscale devices, taking advantage of the unique conditions provided by these small-scale platforms. She has been focusing on the fundamental flow physics of complex fluids in both rheometric and microfluidic devices, but also exploring the distinctive characteristics of complex fluid flows at the micro-scale to design new microfluidic components for extensional rheometry, to develop synthetic biofluid analogues, and to enhance and control microscale mixing.
Keywords: Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluid dynamics, Rheology, Viscoelasticity, Elastic Instabilities, Experimental characterisation of complex fluid flows, CFD, Biofluid analogues, Red blood cell deformation, Aneurysm flows, Microfluidics, Microdevice optimisation.
Professional Activities
- Workshop ‘Chaotic Flows in Polymer Solutions’
- Organiser
- 6/1/2025
- Strategic Themes - Bioimaging Workshop
- Participant
- 17/9/2024
- 38th Conference of the European Colloid & Interface Society
- Member of programme committee
- 1/9/2024
- The 26th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
- Keynote/plenary speaker
- 25/8/2024
- Harnessing elastic instabilities in flows with multiple streams
- Keynote speaker
- 25/8/2024
- ESPCI
- Visiting researcher
- 1/7/2024
Projects
- DTP 2224 University of Strathclyde | Garcia Bernal, Itzia Maria
- Oliveira, Monica (Principal Investigator) Liggat, John (Co-investigator) Garcia Bernal, Itzia Maria (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 01-Jan-2028
- DTP 2224 University of Strathclyde | Cummings, Joshua
- Oliveira, Monica (Principal Investigator) Dong, Feng (Co-investigator) Cummings, Joshua (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 01-Jan-2026
- KTP - RUA. Embed an understanding of polymer chemistry, rheology and process engineering for the in-house development of medical devices.
- Liggat, John (Principal Investigator) Cormack, Peter (Co-investigator) Oliveira, Monica (Co-investigator) Yang, Liu (Co-investigator)
- 09-Jan-2022 - 08-Jan-2024
- JAMES WEIR POSTGRADUATE SCHOLARSHIP IN THERMODYNAMICS AND FLUID MECHANICS RESEARCH | Rycroft, Ewan
- Oliveira, Monica (Principal Investigator) Haw, Mark (Co-investigator) Rycroft, Ewan (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2017 - 23-Jan-2022
- Doctoral Training Partnership (DTP 2016-2017 University of Strathclyde) | Houston, Gemma
- Oliveira, Monica (Principal Investigator) Zhang, Yonghao (Co-investigator) Houston, Gemma (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2017 - 02-Jan-2023
- Medical Devices Doctoral Training Centre Renewal | Radhakrishnan, Pretheepan
- McKay, Geoffrey (Principal Investigator) Mottram, Nigel (Co-investigator) Oliveira, Monica (Co-investigator) Radhakrishnan, Pretheepan (Research Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2014 - 14-Jan-2021
Contact
Dr
Monica
Oliveira
Senior Lecturer
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
Email: monica.oliveira@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 574 5060