Location: University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK

Organisers: DrLaura Miller (University of Strathclyde) , Professor Apala Majumdar (University of Manchester), Professor Sarka Necasova (Czech Academy of Sciences), Professor Tomas Bodnar (Czech Academy of Sciences)

Funder: London Mathematical Society, INI-HIMR Network: Biological Tissues – Modelling, Mechanics and Applications (August 2025-July 2027)  EPSRC EP/V521917/1 – Heilbronn Institute and EP/Z000580//1 – INI.

We are delighted to announce that the international workshop Mathematical Fluid Mechanics (MFM 2026) will take place at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, from 14–16 September 2026. This marks the first time the MFM series will be hosted in the UK, following successful meetings in Prague in 2022 and 2024.

About the Event

MFM 2026 will bring together researchers working on the theoretical, analytical, and numerical aspects of fluid mechanics, with a focus on:

• Fluid–solid interaction problems and rheological phenomena, applied to turbulence and complex fluid systems.
• Modelling fluid flows in biological tissues and medicine, including blood perfusion and drug delivery.
• Advances in numerical and analytical methods for fluid dynamics.

Keynotes & Programme Highlights

• 12 invited keynote speakers from leading UK and EU institutions.
• 15 contributed talks, ensuring substantial representation from PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers, and early career academics.
• Dedicated ECR poster session with flash presentations to foster visibility and engagement.

Roundtable Discussions on UK–EU collaborations and Industry–Academia partnerships.

Keynote Speakers

The MFM 2026 workshop brings together an outstanding group of international keynote speakers whose research spans the forefront of multiscale modelling, fluid mechanics, and applied mathematics. Their expertise covers rigorous analysis, computational methods, and applications across biology, medicine, and engineering, reflecting the breadth and depth of the field.

Boris Muha 
Department of Mathematics, University of Zagreb        

Professor Boris Muha works on partial differential equations and fluid–structure interaction, especially moving-boundary problems arising in continuum mechanics and biomedicine. His current work also includes poroelastic and next-generation fluid–structure interaction models. 

More details can be found here: https://sites.google.com/site/borismuha/home

Raimondo Penta  
School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Glasgow 

Dr Raimondo Penta works at the interface of continuum mechanics and mathematical biology. His research spans multiscale homogenization, poroelasticity and porous-media flow, fluid dynamics, with applications including biomechanics, cancer biology, elastic composites, and bone. 

More details can be found here: https://regii1.wordpress.com/2025/07/04/raimondo-penta/; https://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/mathematicsstatistics/staff/raimondopenta/

Dr Igor Chernyavsky research focusses on mathematical biophysics and physiology, with a focus on mechanics and transport in complex biological systems. His work includes image-based multiscale modelling of physiological tissues, especially the human placenta, as well as stochastic and transport processes in complex media. 

More details can be found here: https://research.manchester.ac.uk/en/persons/igor.chernyavsky/

Adélia Sequeira
Department of Mathematics, Centre for Computational and Stochastic Mathematics Instituto Superior Técnico, University of Lisbon

Professor Adélia Sequeira is a specialist in mathematical and computational modelling of the cardiovascular system, with broader interests in partial differential equations, computational fluid mechanics, particularly focused on inelastic and viscoelastic non-Newtonian fluids and on hemorheology and hemodynamics studies.

More details can be found here: https://www.math.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/~asequeir/

Franck Sueur
Department of Mathematics, University of Luxembourg

Professor Franck Sueur works on partial differential equations in fluid mechanics, including the Euler and Navier–Stokes equations, fluid–structure interaction, multiscale phenomena, and controllability. His work combines rigorous analysis with questions motivated by physical applications. 

More details can be found here: https://www.uni.lu/fstm-en/people/franck-sueur/

Sarah Waters
Mathematical Institute, University of Oxford

Professor Sarah Waters specialises in physiological fluid mechanics, tissue biomechanics, and mathematical modelling for medicine and biology. Her work spans classical applied mathematics and interdisciplinary biomedical research developed in collaboration with clinicians, life scientists, and bioengineers. 

More details can be found here: https://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/waters/Waters/Dr_Sarah_Waters.html

Arnab Roy
Basque Center for Applied Mathematics

Dr Arnab Roy’s work focusses on fluid flows and fluid–structure interaction, with particular interests in existence, uniqueness, long-time behaviour, and control problems. His research is motivated by applications ranging from medicine and biology to civil, naval, and aerospace engineering. 

More details can be found here: https://sites.google.com/view/aroy-math/bio?authuser=0

Šárka Nečasová    
Institute of Mathematics, Czech Academy of Sciences

Professor Šárka Nečasová specialises in the mathematical analysis of fluid motion, with a focus on compressible and incompressible Navier–Stokes systems, non-Newtonian and multicomponent flows, and the rigorous analysis of complex fluid models motivated by physical applications.

More details can be found here: https://www.math.cas.cz/public/storage/people/cv/cv_necasova_sarka_20210810234112_54.pdf

Tomáš Bodnár       
Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague

Professor Tomáš Bodnár works in computational fluid dynamics and numerical analysis. His research focuses on the development and application of numerical methods for complex fluid flows, including biomedical flow modelling and simulations of technologically relevant fluid–mechanics systems.

More details can be found here: https://sciprofiles.com/profile/1936672

Céline Grandmont       
Sorbonne University  &  Inria Paris

Professor Céline Grandmont works in applied mathematics, mathematical modelling, and scientific computing. Her research focuses on the mathematical and numerical analysis of partial differential equations and fluid–structure interaction problems, including coupled fluid–elastic systems and moving-boundary models. Her application areas include the respiratory system, with work on airflow modelling, lung tissue modelling, and aerosol deposition.

More details can be found here: https://team.inria.fr/commedia/grandmont/

Professor Gennady Mishuris       
Department of Mathematics, Aberystwyth University

Professor Gennady Mishuris’s research focuses on the mathematical and numerical analysis of problems in solid and continuum mechanics, including singular integral equations, Wiener–Hopf functional equations, wave propagation, and complex composite structures with imperfect interfaces. His application areas span biomechanics, hydraulic fracture, rheology, crack propagation, metal forming, and material testing, with particular expertise in singular fields, soft-tissue mechanics, and plastic and visco-plastic materials.

More details can be found here: https://www.aber.ac.uk/en/maths/staff-profiles/listing/profile/ggm#research

Community Building & Networking

MFM 2026 will provide a platform for building strong UK–EU collaborations, supporting early career researchers, and strengthening links between academia and industry.

Save the Date

Registration and abstract submission will open in early 2026. Further details, including the full programme and potential funding opportunities for ECRs, will be announced soon.