Staff Profile

Dr Otti Croze is a Lecturer in Engineering Mathematics in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics at Newcastle University. His areas of expertise are mathematical biology and biological physics of microorganisms.

Qualifications

• Msci Physics, Queen Mary College, University of London (2000)
• PhD Theoretical Soft Matter Physics, University of Edinburgh (2004) 

Previous Positions

• Visiting Scholar, Physics, Heriot-Watt University (2006)
• Post-doctoral Research Associate, Biological Physics, University of Edinburgh (2006-2008)
• Post-doctoral Research Associate, Mathematical Biology, University of Glasgow (2008-2012)
• EPSRC mobility researcher co-investigator, Plant Metabolism, University of Cambridge (2012-2013)
• Winton Fellow in the Physics of Sustainability, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge (2013-2019)
• Associate Lecturer in Mathematical Biology, Department of Mathematics, University of York (2020)

Memberships

• Biologically Active Fluids group
  
• Institute of physics
  
• BBSRC Algae-UK

• Mathematical biology and biological physics of microorganisms
  
• Biophysics applied to microbial biotechnologies
  
• Active matter and biofluids

Postgraduate supervision

• D. Jin Cell-cycle dependent motility of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii and its collective motion
  in response to a Poiseuille Flow (2018)
• H. Laeverenz Schlogelhofer Experimental and theoretical study of carbon dynamics
  in an algal-bacterial co-culture (2019)
• T. Jakuszeit Active particles in complex environments (2020)

Available positions

https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/op2365-environmental-biophysics-of-microalgal-migration-in-snow/?p150249

Please contact me for further enquiries. 

Research Grants and fellowships

• Innovate UK Technology Strategy Board: " ProFlow - Advanced downstream processing for sustainable microalgal product manufacture" (2017-2019), 102795, co-I
• Royal Society Research Grant: "Using microswimmer biophysics to boost algal photobioreactor efficiency" (2016-2017), RG82830, PI
• Winton Advanced Fellowship, "New biophysics for sustainable bioremediation and biofuel production" (2013-2019), PI
• EPSRC postdoctoral mobility grant: "The growth of motile algae: from plankton blooms to biofuel production" (2012-2013), EP/J004847/1, Researcher co-I

Undergraduate Teaching (2020/2021)

• MAS2805 - Fluids (Tutor, Semester 2)
• ENG1001 - Engineering Mathematics I (Tutor, Semester 2)

Undergraduate Teaching (2021/2022)

• CEG1716 - Geospatial Mathematics and Statistics (Lecturer, Semester 1)
• ENG1001 - Engineering Mathematics (Tutor, Semester 2)
• PHY3027/PHY3034 - Physics Project (Supervisor, Semester 2)

Undergraduate Teaching (2022/2023)

• ENG2011 - Engineering Mathematics II (Lecturer and module leader, Semester 1)
• CEG1716 - Geospatial Mathematics and Statistics (Lecturer, Semester 1)
• ENG1001 - Engineering Mathematics I (Tutor, Semester 2)
• PHY3027/PHY3034 - Physics Project (Supervisor, Semester 2)

• Articles

  • Jakuszeit T, Lindsey-Jones J, Peaudecerf FJ, Croze OA. Migration and accumulation of bacteria with chemotaxis and chemokinesis. The European Physical Journal E 2021, 44, 32.
  • Schlogelhofer HL, Peaudecerf FJ, Bunbury F, Whitehouse MJ, Foster RA, Smith AG, Croze OA. Combining SIMS and mechanistic modelling to reveal nutrient kinetics in an algal-bacterial mutualism. PLoS ONE 2021, 16(5), e0251643.
  • Jin D, Kotar J, Silvester E, Leptos K, Croze OA. Diurnal Variations in the Motility of Populations of Biflagellate Microalgae. Biophysical Journal 2020, 119(10), 2055-2062.
  • Croze OA, Martinez VA, Jakuszeit T, Dell'Arciprete D, Poon WCK, Bees MA. Helical and oscillatory microswimmer motility statistics from differential dynamic microscopy. New Journal of Physics 2019, 21, 063012.
  • Jakuszeit T, Croze OA, Bell S. Diffusion of active particles in a complex environment: Role of surface scattering. Physical Review E 2019, 99(1), 012610.
  • Peaudecerf FJ, Bunbury F, Bhardwaj V, Bees MA, Smith AG, Goldstein RE, Croze OA. Microbial mutualism at a distance: The role of geometry in diffusive exchanges. Physical Review E 2018, 97(2), 022411.
  • Croze OA, Bearon RN, Bees MA. Gyrotactic swimmer dispersion in pipe flow: Testing the theory. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 2017, 816, 481-506.
  • Croze OA, Sardina G, Ahmed M, Bees MA, Brandt L. Dispersion of swimming algae in laminar and turbulent channel flows: Consequences for photobioreactors. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 2013, 10(81).
  • Croze OA. Alternative derivation of the Feigel effect and call for its experimental verification. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences 2012, 468(2138), 429-447.
  • Croze OA, Ferguson GP, Cates ME, Poon WCK. Migration of chemotactic bacteria in soft agar: Role of gel concentration. Biophysical Journal 2011, 101(3), 525-534.
  • Croze OA, Ashraf EE, Bees MA. Sheared bioconvection in a horizontal tube. Physical Biology 2010, 7(4), 046001.
  • Croze OA, Gates ME. Nonadditivity of polymeric and charged surface interactions: Consequences for doped lamellar phases. Langmuir 2005, 21(12), 5627-5638.

• Review

  • Bees MA, Croze OA. Mathematics for streamlined biofuel production from unicellular algae. Biofuels 2014, 5(1), 53-65.