Joseph Elmes

Experience

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  Argos

  Nov 2012 - Aug 2015

  Customer Service Advisor

  Customer service advisor at Argos LTD during my A-Level studies and the first year of my undergraduate degree. This role entailed stock taking, KPI targets, tills as well as customer service desk.

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  Weston Favell Academy

  Mar 2015 - Apr 2015

  Teaching Assistant

  Created study group programme for candidates for post-GCSE French and Mathematics.

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  The Guzman Family

  Jul 2015 - Aug 2015

  Au Pair

  I spent 5 weeks in Toledo, Spain looking after two boys aged 7 and 10. The role entailed me to cook, clean, care for and provide lessons in basic numeracy to the boys. In return, I was able to benefit from improving my Spanish.

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  University of Leeds

  Jun 2017 - Aug 2017

  Undergraduate Research Assistant

  Financed jointly by the Department of Mathematics and the London Mathematical Society, I spent 10 weeks supervised by Dr Stephen Griffiths investigating the retardation effects upon planetary-scaled surface gravity waves by self-attraction and elastic loading. It is hoped that this research, titled 'Self-Gravitating Water Waves on Rotating Elastic Spheres', will eventually be published, but the results of this research were presented to the Astrophysical and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Research Group at the university. Show less

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  School of Mathematics, University of Leeds

  Sept 2017 - May 2018

  Peer Assisted Learning Mentor

  Aid the learning and assist with the transitional development of undergraduate peers with a primary focus on educational support.

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  University of Leeds

  Jun 2018 - Aug 2022

  This PhD project looked at developing simple mathematical models of internal tide generation and propagation in idealised three-dimensional geometries, building on previous two-dimensional cases. This involved the combination of simplifying assumptions around the fluid motion, density stratification and sea-floor topography so that the governing system of non-linear partial differential equations may be reduced to a more tractable system. Consequently, both analytical and numerical solution were sought, allowing a wide range of parameter space to be investigated. This in turn gave a better understanding of the energy transfer from surface tides to internal tides in varying forcing scenarios, which is known to have a non-trivial dependence upon topographic width and height.A particular focus was on extending the solutions and methods of (Griffiths & Grimshaw, 2007), which accounted for arbitrarily large topographic variations but only in two-dimensions, to three-dimensional settings. The main goals were toUnderstand internal tides generated by a three-dimensional surface tide (in particular, the Kelvin wave) about a two-dimensional topography (representing a continental slope). The Kelvin wave is the dominant form of the surface tide in many coastal zones, and the implied energy transfers are significant on a global scale.Understand the role of topographic undulations in the along-shore direction, i.e., for a three-dimensional tide above a fully three-dimensional topography. It is known from observations that canyons for example, lead to enhanced internal tide generation (and dissipation) Show less

  • Educational Outreach Fellow

    Mar 2021 - Aug 2022

  • Research Postgraduate

    Oct 2018 - Aug 2022

  • Module Assistant

    Oct 2018 - Dec 2021

  • Research Visitor

    Jun 2018 - Sept 2018
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  UK Mathematics Trust

  Aug 2018 - Jul 2020

  Volunteer

  Mentor for secondary school students in Mathematics, promoting the subject nationwide through Olympiads, outreach programs and competitions.

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  Jacobs

  Aug 2022 - now

  Mathematical Modelling Consultant