Research Information

I am a Courant Instructor/Assistant Professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (New York University) working in the Applied Math Lab, primarily with Leif Ristroph and Jun Zhang. I am interested in using modeling, numerical simulations, and experiments to study fluid dynamical problems, with an emphasis on fluid-structure interactions.

My PhD research focused on the dynamics of extensible membranes in inviscid flow. My advisor was Silas Alben and my co-advisor was Karthik Duraisamy. Prior to that, I worked on modeling the manufacture of microstructured optical fibers and on the leapfrogging motion of vortex pairs.

News & Recent Updates

• New paper
  Flow interactions lead to self-organized flight formations disrupted by self-amplifying waves
  J. W. Newbolt, N. Lewis, M. Bleu, J. Wu, C. Mavroyiakoumou, S. Ramananarivo, L. Ristroph, Nature Communications 15, 3462 (2024).
  
• New preprint
  Spanwise variations in membrane flutter dynamics
  C. Mavroyiakoumou, S. Alben (2023)
  
• Seminar
  June 7, 2024: Remote Colloquium on Vortex Dominated Flows (ReCoVor) (Info)
  
• Conference
  June 24-26, 2024: SIAM Conference on Nonlinear Waves and Coherent Structures (NWCS24)
  
I will be giving two talks. (i) Session MS11: Vorticity Dynamics in Classical and Quantum Fluids (Abstract)
(ii) Session MS37: Experimental Measurements and Observations of New Phenomena in Fluid Dynamics (Abstract)

Education

• Ph.D. (Applied & Interdisciplinary Mathematics and Scientific Computing) University of Michigan, USA, 2017-2022
• M.Sc. (Mathematical Modeling and Scientific Computing) University of Oxford, UK, 2016-2017
• B.Sc. (Mathematics) Imperial College London, UK, 2013-2016

Awards & Scholarships

• Joseph B. Keller Postdoctoral Fellowship, New York University, 2023-2024
• Peter Smereka Award for Best Applied Math Thesis, University of Michigan, 2022
• ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award, Honorable Mention, University of Michigan, 2022
• SIAM Student Chapter Certificate of Recognition, 2022
• Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2021-2022
• MCAIM Award, University of Michigan, 2021-2022
• Rackham International Student Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2018-2019
• Michigan Institute for Computational Discovery and Engineering (MICDE) Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2017-2018
• Mathematics Department Graduate Fellowship, University of Michigan, Summer 2017, 2019, 2020
• UROP Award for outstanding research project, Imperial College London, Department of Mathematics, October 2015
• Funding for Undergraduate Research Opportunities Programme (UROP)
  • Dynamics of Interacting Vortices, Imperial College London, Summer 2015
  • The QRD and SVD of matrices over a real algebra, Imperial College London, Summer 2014