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
- Teaching Excellence Award Nomination
- Recipient
- 2019
- Strathclyde Team Medal
- Recipient
- 2019
- FEUP Scientific Incentive Prize in recognition of excellence in research outcomes
- Recipient
- 2012
Publications
- Drying and filtration effects on the rheological behaviour of aqueous PEO solutions
- Garcia Bernal Itzia Maria, Liggat John, Oliveira Monica
- 38th Scottish Fluid Mechanics Meeting (2025)
- 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 : from homogeneous extension to mixed kinematics
- Khakpour Arezoo, Robinson Samatha, Li Zhibo, du Roure Olivia, Chaparian Emad, Lindner Anke, Oliveira Monica
- 38th Scottish Fluid Mechanics Meeting (2025)
- Ferrofluid emulsion in shear flow : Effects of viscosity ratio and magnetic field
- Sultan Ghulam Muhammad Ayaz, Capobianchi Paolo, Oliveira Monica
- 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
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
- Red blood cell distribution in bifurcations and bends
- Invited speaker
- 1/4/2025
- Complex fluids in low Reynolds number flows: from single molecule dynamics to the onset of elastic instabilities
- Speaker
- 12/3/2025
- Strategic Themes: EPSRC Multi-Disciplinary IM3AGES Facility Workshop
- Participant
- 26/2/2025
- 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
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
- 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
- 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
- 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