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 and numerical simulations to study fluid dynamical problems, with an emphasis on fluid-structure interactions.

Currently I am working on understanding the role of flow interactions in flying bird formations and the hydrodynamics of swimming fish. I also study interactions between vortices and free surfaces. 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 papers
  
  1. Sail dynamics during tacking maneuvers [2410.04966], C. Mavroyiakoumou, S. Alben, Phys. Rev. Fluids [DOI] (2025)
  2. Order and chaos in systems of two and three coaxial vortex pairs [2502.07002], C. Mavroyiakoumou, W. Shi, Physica D: Nonlinear Phenom. (2025)
• New preprint
  
  Flow interactions and forward flight dynamics of tandem flapping wings [2505.13149], F. Fang, C. Mavroyiakoumou, L. Ristroph, M.J. Shelley (2025)
• Conferences and minisymposia
  
  1. June 5-6, 2025: FACM 2025, Frontiers in Applied & Computational Mathematics, NJIT, Newark, USA
  2. July 9-11, 2025: EuroMech Colloquium 654, Bio-inspired Fluid-Structure Interaction, Vienna, Austria
  3. July 28, 2025: SIAM Annual Meeting 2025, Environmental Fluid Dynamics Minisymposium (session info), Montréal, Canada

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