Staff Profile | School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics

Background

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
British Phycological Society

Research

Research interests

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

Our group in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Physics investigates the mathemtatical and physical biology of microorganisms. We specialise in the experimental and theoretical study of swimming microbes and microbial symbiosis. Our research is inspired by current problems in microbial biotechnology (photobioreactors, carbon capture, bioremediation and sustainable agritech) and microbial ecology (microbial interactions).

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)

PhD studentships

There are no funded PhD opportunities currently available in our group at present, but we’re interested in hearing from prospective candidates starting September 2024, January or April 2025, please get in touch, quoting ‘phd-microbiophys2425’ in the subject of the email.

Postdoc positions

There are currently no postdoc vacancies in the group, but some may be available in the near future, please get in touch. If you intend to secure your own long-term funding as a junior fellow at Newcastle (e.g. through a NUAcT Fellowship), please contact me and I'll be very happy to discuss this.

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

Publications

Google scholar profile

Researchgate