Ianto Cannon

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I am a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Bremen in Germany. I use computer simulations to investigate turbulent flows involving droplets, particles, and polymers. My work is motivated by the challenges posed by climate change. Recently, I have been studying contact line motion in electrolysis.

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Education

• 2023 - PhD at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan. Supervised by Marco E. Rosti.
  Thesis - Simulations of Multiphase Turbulent Flows.
• 2017 - Master's in Physics at Cambridge University, UK. Supervised by Nigel Meredith.
  Thesis - Chorus waves in the Van Allen belts during violent geomagnetic storms.
• 2016 - Bachelor's in Physics at Cambridge University.

Experience

• 2024 Sep to present - Research associate at Zentrum für Angewandte Raumfahrttechnologie und Mikrogravitation (ZARM), University of Bremen, Germany. Mentored by Marc Avila.
• 2025 Jun - Sixth Madrid turbulence workshop at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain.
• 2023 Dec to 2024 Jun - Junior research fellow at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, Japan.
• 2017 Dec to 2018 Aug - Computational physicist at Photon Design, Oxford, UK.
• 2016 Jul to Aug - Space weather intern at British Antarctic Survey, Cambridge, UK.

Awards

• 2025 Oct - François Frenkiel Award for Fluid Mechanics from the American Physical Society.
• 2025 Jul - 10 million core hours at the Erlangen national high performance computing center.
• 2025 May - Two-year postdoctoral research fellowship with the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
• 2017 Jul - Churchill College scholarship for achieving first-class honours in the Cambridge University tripos exams.
• 2015 Jul to Aug - Amgen scholarship at Kyoto University, Japan. Supervised by Yoshitaka Tanimura.
• 2012 Dec - Silver medal in the British Physics Olympiad.

Publications

Google Scholar, ORCID: 0000-0002-1676-9338.

• Cannon, I., Endres, S., Mädler, L., and Avila, M. (2026). Bubble detachment from circular cavities and flat surfaces. Faraday Discussions. data
• Cannon, I., Morón, D., Vela-Martín, A., and Avila, M. (2026). Spatio-temporal energy spectra of drops in turbulence. 14th International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena.
• Morón, D., Cannon, I., Vela-Martín, A., and Avila, M. (2026). A causal model of drop breakup in turbulence arXiv
• Cannon, I., Morón, D., Vela-Martín, A., and Avila, M. (2026). Strain-driven drop breakup in turbulence Journal of Physics: Conference Series 3230, 012006. data
• Cannon, I., Olivieri, S., and Rosti, M. E. (2024). Spheres and fibers in turbulent flows at various Reynolds numbers. Physical Review Fluids 9, 064301. arXiv data
• Cannon, I., Soligo, G., and Rosti, M. E. (2024). Morphology of clean and surfactant-laden droplets in homogeneous isotropic turbulence. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 987, A31. arXiv data
• Chiarini, A., Cannon, I., and Rosti, M. E. (2024). Anisotropic mean flow enhancement and anomalous transport of finite-size spherical particles in turbulent flows. Physical Review Letters 132, 054005. arXiv data
• Abdelgawad^*, M. S., Cannon^*, I., and Rosti, M. E. (2023). Scaling and intermittency in turbulent flows of elastoviscoplastic fluids. Nature Physics 19, 1059–1063. arXiv data
• Olivieri, S., Cannon, I., and Rosti, M. E. (2022). The effect of particle anisotropy on the modulation of turbulent flows. Journal of Fluid Mechanics Rapids 950, R2. arXiv data
• Cannon, I., Olivieri, S., and Rosti, M. E. (2022). Modulation of homogeneous isotropic turbulence by dispersed fibres and particles. 12th International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena.
• Cannon, I., Izbassarov, D., Tammisola, O., Brandt, L., and Rosti, M. E. (2021). The Effect of Droplet Coalescence on Drag in Turbulent Channel Flows. Physics of Fluids 33, 085112. arXiv data

Supervision

• Sena Sezen (2026 Feb to Dec). The causality of droplet breakup in turbulent flows. MSc thesis (ongoing, Hochschule Bremen).
• Mohamed Aqelmoun (2025 Nov to 2026 Sep). Simulations of airflow around a particulate matter sensor. MSc thesis (ongoing, Universität Bremen).

Websites

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