Henry Keith Moffatt, FRS FRSE (born 12 April 1935) is a British mathematician with research interests in the field of fluid dynamics, particularly magnetohydrodynamics and the theory of turbulence.
After completing his PhD, Moffatt joined the staff of the Mathematics Faculty in Cambridge as an Assistant Lecturer[1] and became a Fellow of Trinity College.
[1] He held this position until 1980 when he returned to Cambridge to take up the Chair in Mathematical Physics, renewing his Fellowship of Trinity College.
He held the Chaire Internationale de Recherche Blaise Pascal at the École Normale Supérieure, Paris, from 2001–2003, and was Leverhulme Professor, 2003–2005.
Moffatt was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1986, Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 1987, Foreign Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1991,[2] Member of Academia Europæa in 1994, Foreign Member of the Académie des Sciences, Paris, in 1998, Foreign Member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, Rome, in 2001, and Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2003.