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Professor and Head of Department, Fluid Mechanics Group, Mechanical Engineering, The University of Melbourne

Dr Jason Monty is Head of Department and a Professor with the Fluid Mechanics Group in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Melbourne.

After completing a PhD in fluid mechanics under the guidance of Professor Min Chong (with co-supervision by Professor A. E. Perry), Jason Monty was awarded an Australian PostDoctoral Fellowship by the ARC. After completing the APD, Jason was offered the position of Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering.

In 2012 he was awarded an ARC Future Fellowship.

Dr Monty is an experimental researcher in fluid mechanics. His experience ranges from turbulent pipe and channel flows to tow tank testing, air-sea interactions and ice-wave interactions.

Research interests
- Fluid mechanics
- Wave mechanics
- Oceanography
- Turbulence

Experience

  • –present
    Professor and Head of Department, Fluid Mechanics Group, Mechanical Engineering, The University of Melbourne