Alastair is an engineer with interests in fluid mechanics, acoustics, and medicine. He came to Cambridge in 2010 to read engineering, during which he won the Rex Moir and Morien Morgan prizes.
Alastair stayed in Cambridge to complete his doctoral work under the supervision of Anurag Agarwal.
He is working on understanding how various bodily sounds, such as wheezing and crackling, are produced, with the aim of improving the utility of these sounds in non-invasive diagnosis.
In his free time, he sails, hikes, and sings, and has been building a 7ft sailing dinghy in the Dyson Center in the Department of Engineering.
Research Interests
Biomedical engineering, aeroacoustics, fluid mechanics, sound production mechanisms within the human body, machine learning in medicine.
Qualifications
MEng, PhD.
Career/Research Highlights
2012: Rex Moir prize
2014: IMechE project prize, Morien Morgan prize, Royal Aeronautical prize in Aeronautics.
2015: EPSRC PhD Scholarship, IMechE Research Scholarship, Engineering for Clinical Practice Grant.
2018: Nevile Research Fellowship, Magdalene College
Selected Publications
An acoustic spacetime and the Lorentz transformation in aeroacoustics. Gregory AL, Sinayoko S, Agarwal A and Lasenby J
Int. J. Aeroacoustics 2014; 14; 977–103
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1260/1475-472X.14.7-8.977
Using geometric algebra to represent curvature in shell theory with applications to Starling resistors. Gregory AL, Agarwal A and Lasenby J
R. Soc. Open Sci. 2017; 4; 171212
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.171212
The Elastic Theory of Shells using Geometric Algebra. Gregory AL, Lasenby J and Agarwal A
R. Soc. Open Sci. 2017; 4; 170065
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.170065
Towards scalable parallel-in-time turbulent flow simulations. Wang Q, Gomez SA, Blonigan PJ, Gregory AL and Qian EY
Phys. Fluids 2013; 25; 110818
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4819390