It was natural to form a pyramide – well, a cone, anyway. He’d experimented this morning. Grain, salt, sand … not water, though, that’d been a mistake. But a pyramid was only a neat cone, wasn’t it, a cone which had decided to be a bit tidier.

Pyramids
Terry Pratchett

I am currently a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Sydney, working on granular media, breakage etc. Click on the images below or on the menu above to know more about these.

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