Professor Jonathan Morrison FREng

Chair in Experimental Fluid Dynamics, Imperial College London

Professor Jonathan Morrison's work focuses on fundamentals of turbulent flow and the instabilities that define the ‘route to chaos’ and turbulence. Recent experiments have particular relevance to the generation of drag, energy loss and emissions in fluid-based systems.

His approach is multidisciplinary, using a novel blend of smart materials, modern control theory and fluid mechanics to control fluid flow and improve the efficiency of fluid-based systems, especially for the reduction of drag (and therefore emissions) in the transport sector. He is a Royal Society Industry Fellow, collaborating with QinetiQ on ‘drag reduction for new airframe design’.

He is the architect and Founder of the National Wind Tunnel Facility. This innovative idea solved the problem of under-investment in UK wind tunnels by establishing an equitable, excellence-based framework for tunnel membership.