Dan Ratliff, a Vice Chancellor’s Fellow at the University of Northumbria, is visiting the department this week (5-8 April). His visit is for research interaction with Tom Bridges on a range of problems in the theory of nonlinear waves. His researchgate page is here and his google scholar page is here. The picture below shows Dan with the VC and Atti Emecz being awarded PhD student of the year at Surrey in 2017 (link here).