I am currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate working under the guidance of Prof. Katarzyna Kowal, investigating free-surface flows prone to viscous fingering instabilities, with applications in geophysical and physiological flows. 

Prior to this I worked as a Research and Teaching Associate at the University of Strathclyde where I also completed my PhD in 2022. My doctoral research, undertaken in collaboration with Merck Chemicals Ltd., developed mathematical models to improve understanding of droplet evaporation processes relevant to OLED manufacturing. During my EPSRC postdoctoral award at Strathclyde, I extended this work to study particle deposition from evaporating droplets with moving contact lines.

I am passionate about promoting Equality, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) in academia. I founded and coordinate the Women in Applied Mathematics Mentoring Scheme (WAMMS), which has supported more than 85 participants across 34 institutions. If you are interested in getting involved, please get in touch.

Alongside my research, I enjoy mathematics communication and teaching at all levels. I have contributed to outreach activities for primary and secondary students, apprenticeship teaching for engineers, undergraduate teaching in applied mathematics, final-year honours projects in population modelling, and postgraduate supervision of MPhil and PhD students working on droplet projects. 

I am an applied mathematician specialising in fluid dynamics, with a focus on free-surface flows, phase change, mass transport, and particle transport processes. 

My research combines asymptotic, analytical, and numerical methods to understand real-world fluid dynamical systems, with applications spanning industrial, physiological, and geophysical flows. My experience includes investigating gravity-, viscosity-, evaporation-, and surface tension-driven flows on solid, porous, and pre-wetted substrates, as well as particle-substrate interactions and solute jamming effects in particle transport processes within these flows. 

For more info on my recent and ongoing research projects, see Hannah-May D'Ambrosio.

Research groups

• Continuum mechanics

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Prior publications

Editorial boards

• 2025 - 2026: La Matematica

Selected international presentations

• 2025: BMC-BAMC (University of Exeter)
• 2025: Innovations in Sessile Droplet Evaporation: Bridging Cutting-Edge Research and Industrial Applications Workshop (University of Strathclyde)