About
Dr Eda Majtan joined the University of Liverpool in 2024 as a Lecturer in Environmental Fluid Mechanics. Her research focuses on enhancing the resilience of existing transport infrastructure, with expertise in fluid–structure interaction and environmental fluid dynamics. She integrates physical experimentation with computational engineering, with particular specialism in sensing technologies, smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), the finite volume method (FVM) and the finite element method (FEM). She also has professional experience as a dam design engineer and research expertise in river flow, floating debris and masonry arch bridge behaviour.
Before joining Liverpool, Dr Majtan was a Lecturer at the University of Salford (2022–2024). She completed her PhD at the University of Manchester in 2022 on the behaviour of masonry arch bridges under flood flow and floating‑debris impact, producing the first quantification of flood‑induced hydrodynamic and debris effects on bridge superstructures. Her doctoral research was a finalist for the 2024 ICE–New Civil Engineer Bridges Awards in the Innovation in Climate Resilience category.
Dr Majtan is a reviewer for the EPSRC Peer Review College, for leading Q1 journals, and serves on the Early Career Researcher Reviewer Board of the ICE Bridge Engineering Journal. She is a member of the IAHR Europe Leadership Team and of several professional and research organisations, including the International Masonry Society (IMS), the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), SPHERIC, DualSPHysics, CCP‑WSI, the UK SPH SIG and the UK Women in Fluid Dynamics SIG.
She is currently seeking postgraduate researchers (PhD or PDRA) interested in the flood resilience of existing infrastructure and flood‑mitigation strategies, involving both experimental and numerical investigations of fluid-structure interactions. Applicants for PhD and PDRA are welcome through the following channels:
• CSC Scholarship for Chinese students
• Commonwealth PhD scholarship
• The Royal Society Newton International Fellowships
• Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships
• Other opportunities