Research Fellow,
Dr Ben Constance is a postdoctoral researcher working under Dr Valentin Heller in the Environmental Fluid Mechanics and Geoprocesses Research Group of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Nottingham. Funded by the Leverhulme Trust, Ben is currently working on the project 'Paradigm Shift of Landslide-Tsunami Characterisation and Prediction'. As part of this work he has written, and continues to maintain and enhance, the University of Nottingham Insight into Ocean-wave Nonlinear Superposition (UNIONS) software package for MATLAB. This software implements Inverse Scattering Transforms based on the Korteweg-de Vries and Kadomtsev-Petviashvili equations, and forms the basis for Ben's ongoing research into Landslide-Tsunamis.
Dr Constance is a Physicist and multidisciplinary Engineer with a varied background. His MSci project from 2006 at Imperial College London was "Development of digital electronics for a tracking trigger at an upgraded CMS detector". Subsequently, Ben went on to defend his DPhil thesis "Design and beam testing of a fast, digital intra-train feedback system and its potential for application at the International Linear Collider" at the University of Oxford as a member of Brasenose College and the John Adams Institute for Accelerator Science in 2011. He went on to spend a few years working in the Accelerator and Beam Physics group at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) before returning to Cambridge, UK and working with the high-tech silicon startup company UltraSoC (now part of Siemens). Ben went on to join the University of Nottingham in 2021.
Faculty of EngineeringThe University of Nottingham Nottingham, NG7 2RD
email:efmg@nottingham.ac.uk