Dr Jason Stafford BEng, PhD

Dr Jason Stafford

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Associate Professor

Contact details

Address
University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham
B15 2TT
UK

Qualifications

  • PhD in Thermofluids, Stokes Institute, University of Limerick, Ireland.
  • BEng (Hons) in Mechanical Engineering, University of Limerick, Ireland.

Biography

Jason is an Associate Professor at the School of Engineering. His research fields span thermofluids, multiphase fluid dynamics, and the mechanochemical processing of advanced materials (e.g. graphene, h-BN, transition metal dichalcogenides, etc.). Part of his work across these disciplines is on investigating the interface between fluid mechanics underpinning synthesis processes and material outcomes. He has published 50 articles in scientific journals and is co-inventor on 20 patents. His work has been applied to areas including microelectronics cooling for telecommunications and aerospace, environmental particle fouling and clean air, clean water, and sustainable production and processing of two-dimensional materials.

Postgraduate supervision

Welcome applications with research interests covering: Thermofluids, Fluid dynamics, 2D nanomaterials, solution-processed materials.

Research

Thermofluids, Fluid dynamics, Two-dimensional (2D) materials

Other activities

  • Visiting Research Fellow, Imperial College London, UK
  • Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Imperial College London, 2017-2019
  • Member of American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
  • Member of the American Physical Society (APS)

Publications

Recent publications

Article

Khaleel, F, Al-Gburi, F, Ding, Y & Stafford, J 2025, 'Modelling three-phase Taylor flows using a combined MPPIC-VoF approach', International Journal of Multiphase Flow, vol. 184, 105117. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmultiphaseflow.2024.105117

Perez-Alvarez, DT, Marchesini, S, Paton, KR, Sykes, J, Hampel, D, Burt, J, Despotelis, K, Fernandes, D, Davies, P, Windows-Yule, C, Wheldon, TK, Pollard, AJ & Stafford, J 2025, 'Predicting graphene production with population balance modelling', Carbon, vol. 231, 119687. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2024.119687

Stafford, J, Uzo, N, Piccoli, E, Petit, C & Matar, OK 2025, 'Thin film flow over a spinning disk: Experiments and direct numerical simulations', Physical Review Fluids, vol. 10, no. 2, 024805. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.10.024805

Fadhila, H, Stafford, J & Davies, PA 2024, 'Direct numerical simulation of flow in a membrane channel under oscillating inlet conditions', Desalination, vol. 590, 117950. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2024.117950

Si, R & Stafford, J 2024, 'Evaluating exposure to vehicle pollutants using physics-informed immersive reality models', Royal Society Open Science, vol. 11, no. 9, 241111. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.241111

Brown, J & Stafford, J 2024, 'Exploring Feedstock Recycling in Liquid-Phase-Exfoliated Nanosheets', ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, vol. 12, no. 39, pp. 14363–14370. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssuschemeng.4c05845

Singh, NS, Stafford, J & Gao, N 2023, 'Dropwise and liquid-jet laminar flow of subcooled water falling over horizontal tube banks', International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, vol. 206, 123936. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijheatmasstransfer.2023.123936

Perez-Alvarez, D, Brown, J & Stafford, J 2023, 'Modification of kitchen blenders into controllable laboratory mixers for mechanochemical synthesis of atomically thin materials', HardwareX, vol. 16, e00471. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ohx.2023.e00471

Perez-Alvarez, D, Davies, P & Stafford, J 2022, 'Foam flows in turbulent liquid exfoliation of layered materials and implications for graphene production and inline characterisation', Chemical Engineering Research and Design, vol. 177, pp. 245-254. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cherd.2021.10.041

Salussolia, G, Kamal, C, Stafford, J, Pugno, N & Botto, L 2022, 'Simulation of interacting elastic sheets in shear flow: insights into buckling, sliding, and reassembly of graphene nanosheets in sheared liquids', Physics of Fluids, vol. 34, no. 5, 053311 . https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0087192

Stafford, J & Kendrick, E 2022, 'Sustainable upcycling of spent electric vehicle anodes into solution-processable graphene nanomaterials', Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research, vol. 61, no. 44, pp. 16529-16538. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.iecr.2c02634

Stafford, J & Xu, C 2021, 'Cooling in poor air quality environments - Impact of fan operation on particle deposition', IEEE Transactions on Components, Packaging and Manufacturing Technology, vol. 11, no. 8, 9440973, pp. 1206-1213. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCPMT.2021.3084047

Other contribution

Si, R, Herreros, M & Stafford, J 2022, Developing interventions for non-exhaust emissions from transport. University of Birmingham, Birmingham. https://doi.org/10.25500/epapers.bham.00004048

Review article

Perez-Alvarez, D, Brown, J, Elgohary, E, Mahmoud, Y, El Nazer, H, Davies, P & Stafford, J 2022, 'Challenges surrounding nanosheets and their application to solar-driven photocatalytic water treatment', Materials Advances, vol. 3, no. 10, pp. 4103-4131. https://doi.org/10.1039/D2MA00276K

Working paper

Brown, J, Ramirez Sanchez, I, Burt, J, Chourmouziadi Laleni , N, Davies, P, Orsini, L & Stafford, J 2025 'Tuning the reactivity of g-C3N4 photocatalysts using liquid phase exfoliation' ChemRxiv. https://doi.org/10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-q8414

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