Rate My Professor Christopher Lustri

Lustri's research focuses on asymptotic methods, particularly exponential asymptotics in differential and difference equations, the ordinary and higher-order Stokes phenomenon, and multiple scales techniques on discrete domains. His work also encompasses fluid dynamics, including free-surface flows, water waves, and air bubble formation in viscous fluids, as well as discrete systems such as solitary wave behavior in particle chains and lattices, and bifurcations in discrete systems. He has secured major funding through Australian Research Council Discovery Projects, including 'A new asymptotic toolbox for nonlinear discrete systems and particle chains' (2019–2022) and 'Modern Asymptotic Methods for Granular Particle Chains' (2017–ongoing), as well as a Discovery Fellowship (2019–2021). Notable awards include the J. H. Michell Medal in 2023 from ANZIAM for distinguished research in applied and industrial mathematics, and the Faculty Excellence Award in 2020 for inter-departmental collaboration. Key publications feature 'Observation of the universality of nonlinear mode coupling in a fibre laser' (Nature Communications, 2025), 'On the selection of Saffman-Taylor viscous fingers for divergent flow in a wedge' (Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2024), 'Exponential asymptotics of woodpile chain nanoptera using numerical analytic continuation' (Studies in Applied Mathematics, 2023), 'A note on the Stokes phenomenon in flow under an elastic sheet' (Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A, 2020), and 'Three-dimensional capillary waves due to a submerged source with small surface tension' (Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2019). Lustri supervises PhD and honours projects on topics like exponentially-small gravity-capillary waves, near-solitary wave dynamics in particle chains, asymptotic studies of discrete integrable systems, and Hele-Shaw flow interfaces.