Ianto Cannon

I am a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Bremen in Germany. I use computer simulations to understand turbulent flows with droplets, particles, and polymers. Recently I have also 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 Politecnica 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 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.

Publications

• Cannon, I., Olivieri, S., and Rosti, M. E. (2024). Spheres and Fibers in Turbulent Flows at Various Reynolds Numbers. Physical Review Fluids 9, 064301. DOI arXiv
• 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. DOI arXiv
• 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. DOI arXiv
• Abdelgawad^*, M. S., Cannon^*, I., and Rosti, M. E. (2023). Scaling and Intermittency in Turbulent Flows of Elastoviscoplastic Fluids. Nature Physics 19, 1059–1063. DOI arXiv
• 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. DOI arXiv
• 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. DOI arXiv

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