L. Goehring
Curriculum Vitae
Lucas Goehring
Cambridge University, BP Institute for Multiphase Flow
Madingley Road, Cambridge, CB3 0EZ, UK
(+44) 01223 334339, lg352@cam.ac.uk
www.lgoehring.com
Academic Summary
2008-present: Research Associate, University of Cambridge; Research Fellow,
Wolfson College.
Cracking of Drying Films, EPSRC-funded research project
2003-2008: Ph.D., University of Toronto, Department of Physics.
On the ordering and scaling of columnar joints, ©2008 (Viva: November 2007).
2002-2003: M.Sc., University of Toronto, Department of Physics.
A study of 3D crack patterns and columnar jointing in corn starch. September 2003.
1998-2002: B.Sc. (Hons.), Univ. of British Columbia, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy.
Spin diffusion across an organic-semiconductor interface. April 2002.
Exchange year (2000-2001) taken at Glasgow University, Department of Physics.
Research Summary
2008-pres.
2002-2008
2001-2002
2000
Postdoctoral research into the physics of drying and fracture in thin colloidal
films, supervised by Drs. Alex Routh and Bill Clegg. I am studying how fluid
flows through the porous structure of drying colloidal films, and how the forces
in these films give rise to patterns such as crystallization, cracking and
buckling. This position is joint between the BP Institute for Multiphase Flow,
the Department of Materials Science and Metallurgy, and the Department of
Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology.
Graduate research in pattern formation and non-linear dynamics, supervised
by Prof. S. Morris. Research focused on the crack pattern of columnar joints
in the lab (in dried corn starch), and in the field (in lavas) in order to
understand the pattern scaling and ordering. I funded the first four years of
my salary through successes in government research grant competitions, and
obtained independent funds to lead two field expeditions during this project.
Undergraduate thesis. Developed a technique to enhance the NMR signal of a
biological sample adhered to a semiconductor powder. Supervisor C. Michal.
Summer research on low temperature nuclear orientation, with Prof. B. Turrell.
Additional collaborations
R. Sletten and B. Hallet, University of Washington, on the origins of patterns in permafrost,
caused by repeated freeze-thaw effects (2005-present).
R. Oliver and K. Yunus, Cambridge, on the design of teaching demonstrations of colloidal
self-assembly, and atomic force microscopy techniques (2009).
L. Mahadevan, Harvard, on the theory of columnar joints (2006-2008).
The Cracking Club, an international group of academics and industry scientists, who shared
common interests in the problem of fracture during drying (2005-2007).
The Lassonde Institute, Toronto, a cross-disciplinary group of scientists who collaborated on
projects involving fracture mechanics (2003-2007).
Z. Lin, Wenzhou University, involving experiments on columnar joints in starch (2002-2003).
Selected Awards/Grants
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2005-2007
2004-2006
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2000,1998
1998-2002
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Junior Research Fellowship, Wolfson College. Highly competitive research
position, includes personal research support of £600/year.
Sumner Foundation Fellowships, 2 x $6 000. Awarded to up to 40
students each year in the physical sciences, nationally, in Canada.
NSERC postgraduate scholarship, Doctoral, $43 400, provides
independent salary support for the research of promising students.
Rita Catherall Travel/Research bursary, $5 000. Private grant from
charitable institution, to support my field costs.
NSERC postgraduate scholarship, M.Sc., $35 000, independent salary
support for research, that can be taken at any Canadian university.
NSERC undergraduate research awards, 2 x $4 000, salary support to
pursue independent summer research projects.
Chancellor’s Entrance Scholarship, UBC, $16 000, eligibility to apply
limited to top 1% of graduating high school class.
Teaching & Supervision experience
2009-2010
2009-present
2009-present
2009
2008-2009
2006-2007
2004-2007
2004-2007
2002-2005
2002-2004
2002
Nicholas Petty and Michael Johnson (The coffee-ring effect) & Polly Keen
and Andrew Chetwood (Fracture patterns in wavy thin films)
Demonstrated final year laboratory modules, Cambridge.
Supervised small instructional groups, Colloids, Cambridge.
Andrew Norton, final year project. Cracking and Drying in Colloidal Films.
Rebecca Conroy and Asad Akhter, final year project. Evolving mud
cracks.
Philip Lee, Physics, final year project. Drying of alumina slurries.
Teaching assistant, Time Series Analysis, Toronto.
Demonstrated/supervised 1st year physics labs, Toronto.
Lecture coordinator for Massey College, Toronto.
Demonstrated/supervised for 2nd year physics labs, Toronto
Demonstrated/supervised for 1st year physics labs, UBC
Organizational & Administrative Experience
2010-present
2009
2009-present
Executive committee, Nonlinear geophysics Group, American Geophysical
Union
Design of conference cover, Fall Meeting, American Geophysical Union
Nonlinear geophysics meetings committee, American Geophysical Union.
2008-present
Member of Governing Body, Wolfson College, Cambridge
2005, 2006, 2009 Convened sessions on Geophysical Pattern Formation at the American
Geophysical Union fall meeting.
2002-2005
Junior fellow lecture co-coordinator for Massey College.
Referee for The Physical Review, Europhysics Letters, Philosophical Magazine, Langmuir,
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, and Quaternary Research.
Technical experience
Specialization in fracture mechanics, fluid and multiphase flow, pattern formation, colloids,
soil science, digital signal processing, rheology, and geomorphology.
Technical expertise in atomic force microscopy, electron microscopy, colloidal synthesis and
characterization, acoustic sensing, x-ray tomography, nuclear magnetic resonance, low
temperature systems, vacuum systems, and differential GPS. Proficient in Matlab, Labview,
and Comsol Multiphysics. Some knowledge of C++, Maple, and Mathematica.
Field Experience
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Antarctica (2007-08): Participated in a two-month field expedition to study ground-ice
stability and the dynamics of polygonal terrain. (PI Ron Sletten).
Scotland (2006): Participated in an interdisciplinary surveying project on Staffa, a small
igneous island near Mull, Scotland (Coordinator Bob Mehew).
British Columbia (2005): Organized and led a three-week field expedition to study columnar
jointing in a variety of igneous rocks, in British Columbia.
Greenland (2005): Participated in field course in northern Greenland, focussing on
permafrost dynamics and bio-feedback in the high arctic.
Washington State (2004): Organized and led a three-week field expedition to study
columnar jointing in the Columbia River Basalt Group.
Publications
(1) H. N. Yow, M. Goikoetxea, L. Goehring, and A. F. Routh. Effect of film
thickness and particle size on cracking stress in drying latex films (submitted to
Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2010).
(2) L. Goehring, R. Conroy, and A. Akhter, W. J. Clegg, and A. F. Routh. Evolution
of mud-crack patterns during repeated drying cycles. Soft Matter, 2010, in press
(DOI: 10.1039/b922206e)
(3) L. Goehring, W. J. Clegg, and A. F. Routh. Solidification, ordering, and
aggregation in a drying colloidal dispersion. Langmuir, 2010, in press (DOI:
10.1021/la100125v)
(4) L. Goehring. Drying and cracking mechanisms in a starch slurry. Phys. Rev. E.
80, 036116 (2009).
(5) L. Goehring, L. Mahadevan, and S. W. Morris.
Nonequilibrium scale selection mechanism for columnar
jointing. Proceedings of the National Academy of
Science, 106 (2), 387-392, (2009). [cover article]
(6) L. Goehring and S. W. Morris. Scaling of columnar
joints in basalt. Journal of Geophysical Research B113,
B10203, (2008).
(7) L. Goehring, S. W.Morris, and Z. Lin. Experimental
investigation of the scaling of columnar joints. Physical
Review E, 74, 036115, (2006).
(8) L. Goehring and S. W. Morris. Order and disorder in columnar joints.
Europhysics Letters, 69 (5), 739-745, (2005).
(9) L. Goehring and C. Michal. Nuclear spin polarization transfer across an
organic-semiconductor interface. Journal of Chemical Physics, 119 (19), 1032510329, (2003).
(10) M. R. Benam, J. Pond, L. Goehring, A. Kotlicki, and B. G. Turrell. Impurities
in magnetic insulators studied by low temperature nuclear orientation. Hyperfine
Interactions 136 (3), 415-419, (2001).
(11) J. Pond, T. Briant, L. Goehring, A. Kotlicki, and B. G. Turrell. Frequency
pulling effects in the quasi-two-dimensional ferromagnet 54Mn-Mn(COOCH3)2.4H2O
studied by nuclear orientation techniques. Physical Review B, 64, 064403, (2001).
Reprints of my papers are freely available at http://www.lgoehring.com/Papers.html
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Conference presentations (speaker in bold)
L. Goehring, Morphologies of cracks and deformations in desiccated colloidal gels,
Workshop: Capillary shaping in Solutes (Invited, Leiden, May 2010).
L. Goehring, R. Conroy, and A. Akhter, W. J. Clegg, and A. F. Routh. Evolving mud
crack patterns . American Geophysical Union (San Francisco, Dec 2009).
[Conference cover - selected to represent over 16 000
contributions]
L. Goehring, A. F. Routh, and W. J. Clegg. Surface
displacements in a cracking colloidal film.14th UKPCF
Annual meeting, (Hull, September 2009).
L. Goehring, A. F. Routh, and W. J. Clegg. Driving
forces and crack patterns in thin colloidal films.
Dynamics Days Europe, (Göttingen, August 2009).
L. Goehring, R. S. Sletten and B. Hallet, Dynamics of
polygonal terrain in the Dry Valleys, Antarctica.
American Geophysical Union (San Francisco, Dec 2008).
L. Goehring, The scaling of columnar joints, Bridging
the Gaps Workshop: Cracks, Fractures and Faults in the Earth (Invited, Bristol, June
2008).
L. Goehring, and S. W. Morris, Cracks, corn starch, and colloids. 4th annual
meeting of the Cracking Club (Invited, Cambridge, July 2007).
L. Goehring, and S. W. Morris, Pattern selection in columnar joints. American
Physics Society (Denver, March 2007).
S. W. Morris, L. Goehring, and Z. Lin, Scaling in columnar joints. American
Physics Society (Invited, Denver, March 2007).
L. Goehring, and S. W. Morris, On the scaling of columnar joints. American
Geophysical Union (San Francisco, Dec 2006).
L. Goehring, and S. W. Morris, Experimental and geophysical exploration into the
scaling of columnar joints. Cracking Club (Invited, Princeton, June 2006).
L. Goehring, and S. W. Morris, Scaling in columnar jointing of Southwestern British
Columbia. American Geophysical Union (San Francisco, Dec 2005).
L. Goehring, and S. W. Morris, Columnar jointing: a self-organizing fracture
pattern. Canadian Association of Physicists (Vancouver, June 2005)
L. Goehring, and S. W. Morris. Length scales in columnar jointing of the Columbia
Basalt Group. American Geophysical Union (San Francisco, Dec. 2004).
L. Goehring, and S. W. Morris, Pattern scaling in quasihexagonal fracture. Joint
Assembly of the American Geophysical Union and Canadian Geophysical Union
(Montreal, May 2004).
L. Goehring, and S. W. Morris, The incomplete ordering of columnar fracture.
American Physical Society (Montreal, March 2004).
L. Goehring, and S. W. Morris, Laboratory experiments on columnar jointing.
American Geophysical Union (San Francisco, Dec. 2003).
L. Goehring, and S. W. Morris, Columnar jointing and quasihexagonal crack
patterns in corn starch. American Physical Society (Austin, March 2003).
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Non-refereed presentations
I have delivered guest lectures, departmental colloquia, special seminars, and
informal talks on a number of subjects, including columnar joints, permafrost
patterns/polar research, fracture mechanics, and colloids.
June 2010: Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, Cambridge, seminar
March 2010: FAST [fluid dynamics], University of Paris VI, colloquium
Nov. 2009: Institute for Theoretical Geophysics, Cambridge colloquium
Sept. 2009: BP Institute/Institute for Theoretical Geophysics, special lecture
May 2009: BP Institute for Multiphase Flow, Cambridge, colloquium
Jan. 2009: Chemistry, Cambridge, seminar
May 2008: Material Science and Metallurgy, Cambridge, colloquium
April 2008: BP Institute for Multiphase Flow, Cambridge, colloquium
Feb. 2008: Geography, Thompson Rivers University, colloquium & guest lecture
Oct. 2007: Geology & Complex Systems, Univ. California, Davies, colloquium
Feb. 2007: Geology, Univ. Toronto, colloquium
Feb. 2007: Civil Engineering, Univ. Toronto, seminar
July 2006: Earth and Space Sciences, Univ. Washington, seminar
Nov. 2005: Society for Exploration Geophysics, Toronto, seminar
Nov. 2005: Geology, Univ. Toronto, colloquium
Nov. 2003: Lassonde Institute, Univ. Toronto, colloquium
Nov. 2003: Massey College, Univ. Toronto, lecture
May 2003: Physics, Univ. Toronto, seminar
Other workshops/conferences attended
Biology meets Physics, Institute of Physics, 23 March, 2010
Rideal Lecture, Society of Chemical Industry, 10 March, 2010
Energy Masterclass BP Institute for Multiphase Flow, 7-9 December 2009
(discussion group coordinator).
Colloid Day, BP Institute for multiphase Flow, 30 Sept. 2009
Cambridge Microfluidics Symposium, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, 27 Feb
2008
Masterclass in Energy Supply and Demand, BP Institute for Multiphase Flow, 810 December 2008
Meeting on Mixing, BP Institute for Multiphase Flow, 25-26 Sept. 2008
IOP Conference on Phase Separation and Mixing, Cambridge, 3-5 Sept., 2008
Gordon Research Conference on Nonlinear Science, Colby College, June 24-29,
2007
Workshop on Patterns in Physics, Fields Institute, Univ. Toronto, Nov. 14-18, 2003
Personal Information
I am an avid outdoorsman, and have been involved with backpacking for many years. This
has also involved rock-climbing, snowshoeing and skiing, to a lesser degree. I am quite
adventurous, and have considerable time exploring the Coastal and Rocky Mountains of
British Columbia. I have also hiked the Inka Trail to Machu Picchu, rafted down the Grand
Canyon, visited the high arctic, backpacked across Europe, and hiked the West Highland
Way. More recently, I have taken up caving, with the Cambridge University Caving Club.
Further professional and personal details are available on my website, www.lgoehring.com
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