Dr. John M Lawson MA, MEng, PhD
Lecturer

John Lawson is a Lecturer in the Aeronautics and Astronautics Department within the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Southampton.
John specialises in experimental fluid mechanics, turbulence and particle laden flows. His work unites theory and numerical simulations with the development and application of optical flow diagnostics to explore, quantify and model turbulent flows.
2019-2021: Marie Curie Research Fellow, University of Southampton
2018-2019: Research Fellow, Ganapathisubramani Group, University of Southampton
2015-2018: Postdoctoral Researcher, Bodenschatz Group, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organisation, Germany
2011-2015: PhD in Engineering, “A scanning PIV study of homogeneous turbulence at the dissipation scale”, University of Cambridge, UK
2007-2011: MEng (Hons.) in Engineering, University of Cambridge, UK