Francis
Woodhouse


I am a Technical Director with the Smith Institute.

Previously, I worked in academic research focussing on applied mathematical modelling of biological and bio-inspired systems. Following my undergraduate and doctoral degrees in Mathematics at Trinity College, Cambridge, I took up a postdoctoral research position at The University of Western Australia. I then returned to the UK, working first in a Junior Research Fellowship back at Trinity College, Cambridge followed by a Hooke Research Fellowship at the Mathematical Institute, Oxford.



Academic Publications

Crowded transport within networked representations of complex geometries PDF Journal

Daniel B. Wilson, Francis G. Woodhouse, Matthew J. Simpson, and Ruth E. Baker, Communications Physics 4, 232 (2021)

Learning dynamical information from static protein and sequencing data PDF Journal

Philip Pearce, Francis G. Woodhouse, Aden Forrow, Ashley Kelly, Halim Kusumaatmaja, and Jörn Dunkel, Nature Communications 10, 5368 (2019)

Displacement of transport processes on networked topologies PDF Journal

Daniel B. Wilson, Ruth E. Baker, and Francis G. Woodhouse, SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics 79, 1892–1915 (2019)

Reversible signal transmission in an active mechanical metamaterial PDF Journal

Alexander P. Browning, Francis G. Woodhouse, and Matthew J. Simpson, Proceedings of the Royal Society A 475, 20190146 (2019)

Functional control of network dynamics using designed Laplacian spectra PDF Journal

Aden Forrow, Francis G. Woodhouse, and Jörn Dunkel, Physical Review X 8, 041043 (2018)

Autonomous actuation of zero modes in mechanical networks far from equilibrium PDF SI Journal

Francis G. Woodhouse, Henrik Ronellenfitsch, and Jörn Dunkel, Physical Review Letters 121, 178001 (2018)

Topology-dependent density optima for efficient simultaneous network exploration PDF Journal

Daniel B. Wilson, Ruth E. Baker, and Francis G. Woodhouse, Physical Review E 97, 062301 (2018)

Information transmission and signal permutation in active flow networks PDF Journal

Francis G. Woodhouse, Joanna B. Fawcett, and Jörn Dunkel, New Journal of Physics 20, 035003 (2018)

Mode selection in compressible active flow networks PDF Journal

Aden Forrow, Francis G. Woodhouse, and Jörn Dunkel, Physical Review Letters 119, 028102 (2017)

Active matter logic for autonomous microfluidics PDF Journal

Francis G. Woodhouse and Jörn Dunkel, Nature Communications 8, 15169 (2017)

Stochastic cycle selection in active flow networks PDF SI Journal

Francis G. Woodhouse, Aden Forrow, Joanna B. Fawcett, and Jörn Dunkel, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 113, 8200-8205 (2016)

Ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic order in bacterial vortex lattices PDF SI Journal

Hugo Wioland, Francis G. Woodhouse, Jörn Dunkel, and Raymond E. Goldstein, Nature Physics 12, 341-345 (2016)
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Predicting knee osteoarthritis PDF Journal

Bruce S. Gardiner, Francis G. Woodhouse, Thor F. Besier, Alan J. Grodzinsky, David G. Lloyd, Lihai Zhang, and David W. Smith, Annals of Biomedical Engineering 44, 222-233 (2016)

Short-term consolidation of articular cartilage in the long-term context of osteoarthritis PDF Journal

Francis G. Woodhouse, Bruce S. Gardiner, and David W. Smith, Journal of Theoretical Biology 368, 102-112 (2015)

Cytoplasmic streaming in plant cells emerges naturally by microfilament self-organization PDF SI Journal

Francis G. Woodhouse and Raymond E. Goldstein, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 110, 14132-14137 (2013)
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Membrane viscosity determined from shear-driven flow in giant vesicles PDF Journal

Aurelia R. Honerkamp-Smith, Francis G. Woodhouse, Vasily Kantsler, and Raymond E. Goldstein, Physical Review Letters 111, 038103 (2013)
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Confinement stabilizes a bacterial suspension into a spiral vortex PDF Journal

Hugo Wioland, Francis G. Woodhouse, Jörn Dunkel, John O. Kessler, and Raymond E. Goldstein, Physical Review Letters 110, 268102 (2013)

Spontaneous circulation of confined active suspensions PDF Journal

Francis G. Woodhouse and Raymond E. Goldstein, Physical Review Letters 109, 168105 (2012)
Highlighted in a Physics Focus by P. Ball, Physics 5, 117 (2012)

Shear-driven circulation patterns in lipid membrane vesicles PDF Journal

Francis G. Woodhouse and Raymond E. Goldstein, Journal of Fluid Mechanics 705, 165-175 (2012)