Gavin Melaugh
Dr. G Melaugh
- Position
- Chancellors Fellow
- Category
- Academic staff
- Location
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James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB)
Room 1508
- Email: g.melaugh [at] ed.ac.uk
- Tel: +44 (0)131 651 3456
- Personal home page
- Edinburgh Research Explorer profile
Gavin is a member of the following School research institute and research areas:
Research institute
Research areas
Biography
Gavin is Chancellor's Fellow in the School of Physics and Astronomy and in the School of Engineering. His group uses a combination of experiments and simulatins to investigate collective behaviours in microbial systems such as bacterial biofilms and aggregates. More recently his group have been focusing on the biophysics of environmentally relevant microbes such as those in wastewater treatment.
Collaborative activity
My group have a long-lasting collaboration with Veolia UK, who manage wastewater treatment faciities here in Scotland and all over the world
Current teaching
- Biological Physics - 4th and 5th year (co-lecturer with Dr. Chris Brackley)
- Reseach Methods - 3rd year
Previous courses
- Geometry of soft condensed matter - 4th and 5th year
Gavin currently offers the following PhD project opportunities:
- Controlling the microbial generation of nitrous oxide in wastewater treatment; a pathway to reduce greenhouse gas emissions
- Developing tractable model systems for filamentous bacteria in wastewater treatment
- Moving and growing among entanglements: the role of DNA in the physics of bacterial swimming and aggregation
Recent publications
- , Physical Review E, 111, 4, p. 1-11
- , Biotechnology for the Environment, 1, 1
- , NPJ Biofilms Microbiomes, 9, 1, p. 1-52
- , Chemistry - A European Journal, 27, 52, p. 13268-13274