Jason Meredith Reese

Jason Meredith Reese, 2010

Jason Meredith Reese (born June 24, 1967 in Wimbledon - † March 8, 2019 ) was a British engineering scientist and university professor . Since 2013 he has been the successor to Peter Mitchell Grant Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh . Reese specialized in the behavior and handling of fluids in extremely small areas.

Life

Jason Reese was born in 1967 at Wimbledon, the son of the historian Trevor Reese and his wife Hilary Reese, née Charker. He graduated from Imperial College, London in 1988 with a degree in physics . In 1993 he completed his PhD at the University of Oxford with a thesis on shock waves in dilute gases.

After postdoctoral research stays in Berlin and Cambridge , he received his first teaching position at the University of Aberdeen, where he taught from 1996 to 2000. Reese moved to King's College London where he was an ExxonMobile Fellow for two years . He completed this phase when he was appointed Weir Professor of Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics at the University of Strathclyde in 2003.

With the full professorship behind him, Reese built an internationally recognized research group at the University of Strathclyde, headed the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering for some time and founded the Scottish Universities Insight Institute. During this time he also developed new types of computer models for calculating the behavior of fluids in the nano range.

Reese returned to Scotland with his wife, the historian and Professor of Gender History at the University of Glasgow , Alexandra Shepard , and their daughter, born in 2007 , where they settled in Glasgow . He enjoyed spending his summer leisure time on the western islands.

After ten years as a professor at Strathclyde, Reese was appointed ninth professor to the Regius Chair at the University of Edinburgh in 2013. In addition to this position, he served as Research Director of the School of Engineering. He continued his research and in 2018 was appointed a Royal Academy of Engineering Chair in Emerging Technologies, a ten-year research assignment to develop key technologies of the 21st century.

In memory of Reese and in recognition of his achievements in setting up the Multiscale Fluid Mechanics Group within the framework of the Institute for Multiscale Thermofluids , a chair specializing in fluid technology, the Jason Reese Chair of Multiscale Fluid Mechanics , was established after his death .

research

Reese's research changed the understanding of engineering management of matter in ultra-small areas. This is expressed, for example, in the fact that the unusual behavior of gases and liquids of such magnitude opens up new water treatment solutions that work with nanotubes , nano-coatings that reduce the frictional resistance of ships, space capsules when they re- enter the atmosphere or medical probes for diagnostic chips.

His research achievements have been recognized by a large number of awards and honors. The Royal Society of Edinburgh appointed him a Fellow. The Royal Academy of Engineering , the Institution of Mechanical Engineers , the Institute of Physics, and the American Physical Society did the same . He has been honored with the Philip Leverhulme Prize in Engineering, the Bruce-Preller Price Lecture and the Lord Kelvin Medal and Lecture of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 2016 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from Xi'an Jiaotong University .

In addition to his university activities, Reese co-founded Brinker Technology Ltd. in 2002. a successful techno startup that won the Queen's Award for International Trade in 2012. He was involved in various advisory groups to the Scottish Government and the Cabinet Office. In addition, he was active in the learned societies in which he was a member.

Reese traveled extensively and held visiting professorships at Oxford, Cambridge and Johns Hopkins University .

bibliography

Books

2008: Special issue on micro- and nanoscale flows: advancing the engineering science and design

items

2009: Switching criteria for hybrid rarefied gas flow solvers ; with Duncan A. Lockerby and Henning Struchtrup; https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2008.0497
2016: Electric fields can control the transport of water in carbon nanotubes ; with Konstantinos Ritos, Matthew K. Borg, Nigel J. Mottram; https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2015.0025 ;
2016: Nanostructured carbon membranes for breakthrough filtration applications: advancing the science, engineering and design ; with Davide Mattia, Ben Corry, Duncan Lockerby, and David Emerson; https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2015.0035 ;

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME	Reese, Jason Meredith
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Reese, J. Meredith; Reese, JM; Reese, Jason; Reese, J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British physicist, engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	June 24, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wimbledon , England , UK
DATE OF DEATH	March 8, 2019

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[Scots2019-03-26-2] Unknown: Obituary: Prof Jason Reese, internationally renowned engineering scientist and academic. Jason Meredith Reese FREng, FRSE, FIMechE, FInstP, APS Fellow, Regius Professor of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. Born: June 24, 1967 in Wimbledon, London. Died: 8 March 2019, aged 51. In: The Scotsman. March 26, 2019, accessed on September 23, 2019 .