University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Eric Lauga FRS is Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge. He graduated from Ecole Polytechnique (France) in 1998 and the Corps des Mines Program from Ecole des Mines de Paris in 2001. After receiving an M.S. in Fluid Mechanics from University of Paris Pierre et Marie Curie (France) in 2001, he earned his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 2005 where he worked in theoretical modeling of flow phenomena at the micron scale. Prior to joining Cambridge, he was on the faculty at MIT (Mathematics) and at the University of California, San Diego (Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering). He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER award (2008) and of three awards from the American Physical Society: the Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award in Fluid Dynamics (2006), the François Frenkiel Award for Fluid Mechanics (2015) and the Early Career Award for Soft Matter Research (2018). He is a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS), of the American Physical Society and of Euromech. His research interests include the development of theoretical approaches to model viscous flows, in particular in a biological context, the dynamics of complex fluids and interdisciplinary problems in soft matter physics. He joined PRFluids as an Associate Editor in 2016.
Stanford University, USA
Beverley McKeon is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Previously, she was the Theodore von Karman Professor of Aeronautics at the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories at Caltech (GALCIT), an affiliated faculty member in the Computing and Mathematical Sciences Department and the Deputy Chair of the Division of Engineering and Applied Science. She earned her Ph.D. from Princeton University in 2003 where she carried out research in high Reynolds number turbulent pipe flow, and completed her undergraduate work at the University of Cambridge, where she earned her M.A. with honors. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and the recipient of a Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship from the Department of Defense in 2017, the Presidential Early Career Award (PECASE) in 2009 and an NSF CAREER Award in 2008. Her research interests include the development of resolvent analysis for modeling turbulent flows, interdisciplinary approaches to manipulation of boundary layer flows using morphing surfaces, assimilation of experimental data for efficient low-order flow modeling and fundamental investigations of wall turbulence at high Reynolds number. She joined PRFluids as an Associate Editor in 2018.
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Bradley Rubin, Managing EditorAmerican Physical Society, USA Brad received a B.S. from the University of Maryland in College Park and a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University in 1990 (high-energy physics). He subsequently held research positions at NASA in Huntsville, Alabama and the Riken Institute in Japan. He joined Physical Review B in 1999 and is also a member of the editorial team of Physical Review C. |
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Arezoo Ardekani, Associate EditorPurdue University, USA Arezoo Ardekani is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Purdue University. Honored with the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from President Obama, Arezoo has also received an NSF CAREER Award, the Arthur B. Metzner Early Career Award from the Society of Rheology, the Society of Engineering Science (SES) Young Investigator Medal, the Sigma Xi Mid-career Research Award, and is named a Purdue University Faculty Scholar. A Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) and American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Arezoo has also received the College of Engineering Faculty Excellence Awards for Graduate Student Mentorship and Early Career Research, the Amelia Earhart Award, and the Society of Women Engineers Award. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California Irvine in 2009 and was a Shapiro Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT. Her research focuses on the suspensions of particles, swimmers, as well as complex fluids. Arezoo is an Associate Editor of Physical Review Fluids and ASME Applied Mechanics Review, an Editorial Advisory Board Member of the International Journal of Multiphase Flow, Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, Physics of Fluids, and a member of the American Physical Society-Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) Executive Committee. She was a co-chair of the 2022 APS-DFD meeting held in Indianapolis. |
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Guido Boffetta, Associate EditorHandling the Letters section
Guido Boffetta is a Full Professor at the University of Turin as well as an Associate Member of both the Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate and the National Institute for Nuclear Physics. He received his Ph.D. in physics at the University of Turin. Dr. Boffetta was a Visiting Professor at the Université de Nice and a Visiting Scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization. His research interests include the interaction of numerical simulations and theoretical models and, more recently, fully developed turbulence, in both two and three dimensions, with applications to non-Newtonian fluids, turbulent convection, and biological interactions. He served on the Physical Review Fluids Editorial Board before becoming an Associate Editor. |
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Steven L. Brunton, Associate EditorUniversity of Washington, USA Dr. Steven L. Brunton is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington. He is Director of the AI Center for Dynamics and Control (ACDC) at UW and Associate Director for the NSF AI Institute in Dynamic Systems. He received a B.S. in mathematics from Caltech in 2006 and his Ph.D. in mechanical and aerospace engineering from Princeton in 2012. His research combines machine learning with dynamical systems to model and control complex systems in fluid dynamics, with related applications in biolocomotion, energy, and aerospace. He received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) and has co-authored five textbooks and over 200 scientific publications. |
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Jacqueline H. Chen, Associate EditorSandia National Laboratories, USA Jacqueline H. Chen is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at the Combustion Research Facility at Sandia National Laboratories. She has contributed broadly to research in turbulent combustion elucidating turbulence-chemistry interactions in combustion through direct numerical simulations. To achieve scalable performance of DNS on heterogeneous computer architectures she leads an interdisciplinary team of computer scientists, applied mathematicians and computational scientists to develop an exascale direct numerical simulation capability for turbulent combustion with complex chemistry and multi-physics. She is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Combustion Institute and the Americal Physical Society. She received the Combustion Institute’s Bernard Lewis Gold Medal Award in 2018 and the Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award in 2018. Jacqueline was a board member of PRFluids before becoming an Associate Editor in 2025. |
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Cécile Cottin-Bizonne, Associate EditorUniversity of Lyon, France Cécile Cottin-Bizonne received her Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Lyon in France. She then was a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University. She is a now a Research Director at CNRS, ILM in Lyon, France. Her research interests lie at the crossroads between soft condensed matter and fluid dynamics, including active matter and interfacial transport. |
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Luminita Danaila, Associate EditorUniversity of Rouen Normandy, France Luminita Danaila is Professor of Physics at the University of Rouen Normandy, France, with a conjoint Professor appointment at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She received her Ph.D. in 1998 from the Aix-Marseille University and was awarded the 1999 Thesis Prize of the French Association of Mechanics. She is the recipient of the 1995 ‘Amelia Earhart Fellowship Award’ of Zonta International Foundation. She served as Director of the National Group of Research in Turbulence (GdR ‘Turbulence’) from 2012 to 2016. Her research focuses on theoretical and experimental investigation of turbulence, with emphasis on mixing of passive and active scalars, variable viscosity and density flows, and superfluid turbulence. Her research interests also include flow and heat applications for green energies and sustainable management of energy (phase change materials, wind turbines). She served on the Physical Review Fluids Editorial Board before becoming an Associate Editor. |
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Karthik Duraisamy, Associate EditorUniversity of Michigan, USA Karthik Duraisamy is an Associate professor of Aerospace Engineering, the director of the center for data-driven computational physics, and the associate director of the computational science institute at the University of Michigan. He holds a Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering and a Masters in Applied Mathematics from the University of Maryland. His research interests are in various aspects of computational modeling including data-driven and reduced order modeling, statistical inference, numerical methods and physics-based modeling. |
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François Gallaire, Associate EditorEPFL, Switzerland François Gallaire graduated from Ecole Polytechnique in 1998 and earned a Master’s Degree in Liquids Physics from Université Pierre et Marie Curie in 1999. He completed his Ph.D. in 2002 at LadHyX, on swirling jet instabilities and vortex breakdown. After six years at CNRS in Nice, he joined EPFL in 2009, founding the Fluid Mechanics and Instabilities Lab (LFMI). He became an associate professor in 2016 and served as teaching department director for 5 years. In 2019, he was named a fellow of the American Physical Society. His research focuses on the fundamental description of hydrodynamic instabilities, free interface phenomena, and microfluidics. |
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Rama Govindarajan, Associate EditorTata Institute of Fundamental Research, India Rama Govindarajan is Senior Professor and Dean, Academic at the International Centre for Theoretical Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bengaluru, India. She received her Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Science and did postdoctoral research at Caltech. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the Indian National Science Academy and the Indian Academy of Sciences. She is also a winner of the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize and a Distinguished Alum of the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. Her research interests are in particulate flows, vortex dynamics and flow instabilities. |
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Guowei He, Associate EditorChinese Academy of Sciences, China Guowei He is a professor and the academic director of the Institute of Mechanics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in theoretical and applied mechanics from Northwestern Polytechnic University in China. He is an elected academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Physical Society. His research interests include turbulence statistical theory and computational modeling, large eddy simulation of turbulence-generated noise and machine learning. |
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Sunghwan Jung, Associate EditorCornell University, USA Sunghwan “Sunny” Jung is an Associate Professor of Biological and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University. He received his B.S. from Sogang University in 1999, his M.S. in Physics from Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea in 2001, and his Ph.D in Physics from University of Texas at Austin in 2005. Prior to joining Cornell University, he was a faculty member at Virginia Tech, an instructor at MIT, and a postdoctoral researcher at NYU. He is a recipient of the NSF Mid-career Advancement award (2021), the ACS Petroleum Research Fund Doctoral New Investigator award (2012), and the APS Milton Van Dyke awards (2015, 2011). His research interest is to investigate a variety of fluid mechanics problems emerging from the interaction of biological systems with surrounding environments. |
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Eva Kanso, Associate EditorUniversity of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA Eva Kanso is a professor and the Z.H. Kaprielian Fellow in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Southern California. Prior to joining USC in 2005, Kanso held a two-year postdoctoral position in Computing and Mathematical Sciences at Caltech. She received a Ph.D. degree in 2003 and an M.S. degree in 1999 in Mechanical Engineering, as well as an M.A. degree in 2002 in Mathematics, all from the University of California at Berkeley. She obtained her Bachelor of Engineering degree from the American University of Beirut with distinction. Kanso held rotating and visiting positions as a program director at the National Science Foundation (2021-2023), Princeton University (2025), the Institut de Recherche sur les Phénomènes Hors Equilibre IRPHE (2024), the Ecole Supérieure de Physique et de Chimie Industrielles (2021), the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (2016-2017), the Flatiron Institute at the Simons Foundation (2016-2017), and the Laboratoire LadHyX at the Ecole Polytechnique (2015). Her research interests concern fundamental problems in the biophysics of cellular and subcellular processes and the physics of animal behavior, both at the individual and collective levels. A central theme in her work is the role of the mechanical environment, specifically the fluid medium and fluid-structure interactions, in shaping and driving biological functions. |
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Sanjiva Lele, Associate EditorStanford University, USA Sanjiva Lele is a professor at Stanford University with joint appointments in Aeronautics & Astronautics and Mechanical Engineering Departments. He is also active with the Center for Turbulence Research. He received his B Tech. from IIT Kanpur, India and Ph.D. from Cornell University. His research combines numerical simulations with physical modeling to study fundamental unsteady flow phenomena, transition and turbulence in high-speed flows, and aeroacoustics. He is also interested in developing high-resolution computational methods and reduced order modeling. Sanjiva is a fellow of APS and an Associate Fellow of AIAA. He received the F. N. Frenkiel Award from APS-DFD in 1986, the AIAA Aeroacoustics Award in 2016, the Distinguished Alumnus Award from IITK in 2016. He also received best paper awards for joint work with students from AIAA in 2018, 2015, 2012 and 2011 and from ASME in 1999, and SAE in 1998. From 1994-2004 he served as Associate Editor for J. Fluid Mech. |
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Eckart Meiburg, Associate EditorUniversity of California, Santa Barbara, USA Eckart received his Ph.D. from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany, in 1985. He subsequently was a postdoc at Stanford University and held faculty positions at Brown University and the University of Southern California, before joining the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2000. His research focuses on computational fluid dynamics, with an emphasis on multiphase and geophysical flows. |
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Jacco Snoeijer, Associate EditorUniversity of Twente, The Netherlands Jacco Snoeijer is a Full Professor at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. He received his Ph.D. in physics at Leiden University in 2003, after which he was a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at the ESPCI in Paris and at the University of Bristol. He also held a faculty position at Eindhoven University of Technology. His research interests include capillary flows, drops, wetting, lubrication and elasticity. |
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Howard A. Stone, Associate EditorHandling the Letters section
Howard received his Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Caltech in 1988. He is an APS Fellow and was first Secretary/Treasurer, then Chair of the Division of Fluid Dynamics. His research interests are in fluid dynamics and soft condensed matter physics. |
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Chao Sun, Associate EditorTsinghua University, China Chao Sun is a Professor and New Cornerstone Investigator at Tsinghua University in China, holding positions at the Department of Energy and Power Engineering, the College of Aerospace Engineering and the Center for Combustion Energy. He obtained his Ph.D. from the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2006. From 2009 to 2015, he served as a faculty member at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. In 2015, he joined Tsinghua University as a full Professor. His research interests include multiphase flows, high-Reynolds-number turbulence, bubbles and drops, as well as heat and mass transfer. Chao Sun is a fellow of the American Physical Society and a recipient of the Xplorer Prize and New Cornerstone Investigator Program. He served on the Physical Review Fluids Editorial Board before becoming an Associate Editor. |
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Bruce R. Sutherland, Associate EditorUniversity of Alberta, Canada Bruce received his Ph.D. in atmospheric science in the Department of Physics at the University of Toronto in 1994, then pursued postdoctoral training in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge, before taking up a position in 1997 as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Alberta. He is now a Professor jointly appointed in the Departments of Physics and of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences at the University of Alberta. His research combines theory, numerical simulations, and laboratory experiments to examine phenomena occurring in stratified fluid. Main topics include interfacial and vertically propagating internal waves, the evolution of gravity currents and plumes in stratified fluids, and the transport and deposition of sediments in geophysical flows. |
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Kunihiko Taira, Associate EditorUniversity of California, Los Angeles, USA Kunihiko Taira is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UCLA working in the areas of unsteady aerodynamics and flow control using computational and data-driven approaches. He received his B.S. from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from the California Institute of Technology. He is a recipient of the 2013 AFOSR and 2017 ONR Young Investigator Awards and the 2022 U.S. Department of Defense Vannevar Bush Faculty Fellowship. He is a Fellow of APS and an Associate Fellow of AIAA, and has served as an Associate Editor for the AIAA Journal and the Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics. |
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Emmanuel Villermaux, Associate EditorAix-Marseille Université, France Emmanuel received his Ph.D. from the University of Paris VI, Pierre & Marie Curie, in Grenoble, where he was appointed at CNRS, and he obtained his habilitation from Joseph Fourier University. He now holds a position of distinguished Professor at Aix Marseille University, and at the Institut Universitaire de France. He is an APS Fellow. His interests are in the mechanics of deformable bodies in the broad sense, from fluids to solids, with a particular taste for mixing and fragmentation. |
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Roberto Zenit, Associate EditorBrown University, USA Roberto Zenit received his Ph.D. from the Mechanical Engineering Department at Caltech in 1998. After a postdoctoral period at Cornell University, he moved to Mexico City in 2000 to become a faculty member at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), eventually becoming a Full Professor of Mechanical Engineering and a researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones en Materiales, both at UNAM. He is now a Professor of Engineering at Brown University. He is a fellow of the APS, a member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering of Mexico. His area of expertise is fluid mechanics; he has worked in a wide variety of subjects including multiphase and granular flows, biological flows, rheology, and more recently, the physics of artistic painting. |
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Sofia Angriman, Early Career Board Member for Social MediaUniversité Côte d'Azur, France Sofia received her Ph.D in Physics from the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) in 2023. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Twente before moving to the Institut de Physique de Nice (INPHYNI), Nice, France. Her interests include turbulence, especially in particle-laden flows, and the dynamics of ice melting under different ambient flow conditions. |
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Michael BrennerHarvard University, USA Michael received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago and then joined the Mathematics Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is now the Glover Professor of Applied Mathematics and Applied Physics, and Professor of Physics, at Harvard University. Michael was an Associate Editor for PRFluids before joining its Editorial Board. |
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André CavalieriInstituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, São José dos Campos, Brazil André V. G. Cavalieri is an Associate Professor at Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA), in São José dos Campos, Brazil. He received a Ph.D. in 2012 from the University of Poitiers, followed by a David Crighton Fellowship at the University of Cambridge. His main research interests are on flow stability, turbulence and aeroacoustics, and also on reduced-order modeling and flow control applied to transitional and turbulent flows. |
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Lin Fu, Early Career Board MemberHong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong Lin Fu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the Department of Mathematics at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Before he joined HKUST, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Center for Turbulence Research (CTR), Stanford University, for more than three years. He also did postdoctoral research at Technical University of Munich (TUM), where he obtained his Ph.D. degree with a grade of Summa Cum Laude. He was recognized with the Early Career Award by the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong in 2022 and the National Natural Science Fund for Excellent Young Scientists by NSFC in 2024. Prof. Fu’s research involves the fundamental study of flow physics, including turbulence, transitional flows and multiphase flows. His research is dedicated to an improved theoretical understanding of these complex fluids and the development of high-fidelity reduced-order turbulence models. |
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Dennice F. GaymeJohns Hopkins University, USA Dennice F. Gayme is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. She earned her B. Eng. & Society from McMaster University in 1997 and an M.S. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1998, both in Mechanical Engineering. She received her Ph.D. in Control and Dynamical Systems in 2010 from the California Institute of Technology. She is a fellow of the American Physical Society (2024) and a recipient of a JHU Catalyst Award in 2015, ONR Young Investigator and NSF CAREER awards in 2017, a Whiting School of Engineering Johns Hopkins Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award in 2020, and the Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena (TSFP12) Nobuhide Kasagi Award in 2022. Her research interests are in modeling, analysis and control of spatially distributed and large-scale networked systems in applications such as turbulence and transition in wall-bounded shear flows, and wind farms. |
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Nicolas HadjiconstantinouMassachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Nicolas obtained his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering in 1998 from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Following a one year postdoctoral fellowship at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory as Lawrence Livermore Fellow, he joined the faculty of the Mechanical Engineering Department, where he is now a Professor and co-director of the Computation for Design and Optimization (CDO) and Computational Science and Engineering (CSE) Programs. Nicolas was an Associate Editor for PRFluids before joining its Editorial Board. |
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Björn HofInstitute of Science and Technology, Austria Björn Hof is Professor of Physics at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Manchester in 2001. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. His research interests include the transition to turbulence, hydrodynamic instabilities and turbulence in complex fluids as well as turbulence control and polymer drag reduction. |
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Christian J. KählerUniversität der Bundeswehr München, Germany Christian J. Kähler is Professor for Fluid Dynamics and director of the Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Aerodynamics of the Universität der Bundeswehr München since 2008. He received his Physics Diplom Degree from the Technical University Clausthal in 1997 and his Ph.D. in Physics from the Georg August University of Göttingen in 2004. His research covers a broad range of topics involving the development of optical measurement techniques on the micro and macro scale and the experimental analysis of complex phenomenon in microfluidics and turbulent boundary layer flows at subsonic, transonic, and supersonic conditions. He was chairman of the national conference on Laser-Methods in Fluid Mechanics in 2013, the International Conference on Experimental Fluid Mechanics in 2018, and the International Symposium on Particle Image Velocimetry in 2019. Furthermore, he is co-author of the 3rd edition of the Springer book on Particle Image Velocimetry. Between 2012 and 2018 he was elected member of the Fluid Mechanics review board of the national research funding organization Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). Since 2019 he is elected member of the senate committee on Collaborative Research Centres (SFB) of the DFG. Since 2023, he has been a member of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's selection committee for the sponsorship of highly qualified scientists from abroad at German universities and research institutions. |
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Ann KaragozianUniversity of California, Los Angeles, USA Ann Karagozian is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at UCLA. Her research interests lie in non-reactive and reactive flows as applied to improved energy efficiency, alternative fuels, and advanced air breathing and rocket propulsion systems. Professor Karagozian is a Member of the National Academy of Engineering and is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), the American Physical Society (APS), and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME). She twice received the U.S. Air Force Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service for her contributions to the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, and is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA). She received her Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the California Institute of Technology, and is the Inaugural Director of the UCLA Promise Armenian Institute. |
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Ho-Young KimSeoul National University, South Korea Ho-Young Kim is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Seoul National University (SNU). He earned his B.S. from Seoul National University and his M.S. and Ph.D. from MIT, all in mechanical engineering. Prior to joining SNU, he was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and a member of the Korean Academy of Science and Technology. His research focuses on the mechanics of microfluids and soft matter, as well as bio-inspired engineering. |
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John Kim, Emeritus Board MemberUniversity of California, Los Angeles, USA John received his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering in 1978 at Stanford University and then worked as a postdoctoral fellow, research scientist, and branch chief at NASA Ames Research Center. He joined UCLA in 1993 as Rockwell Collins Professor. He is a Fellow of the APS and the AIAA and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He received the Otto Laporte Award from the American Physical Society in 2001, and he served as Editor of Physics of Fluids from 1998 to 2015. John was one of the initial lead editors of PRFluids. |
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Soledad Le ClaincheUniversidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Dr. Soledad Le Clainche is a Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the School of Aerospace Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), where she completed her Ph.D. in Fluid Dynamics in 2013. Her research focuses on flow structures, machine learning, reduced-order modeling, and CFD. She has received numerous honors, including the 2022 Young Scientist Award (SARES) and inclusion in Stanford's World’s Top 2% Scientists list for several consecutive years. Dr. Le Clainche leads multiple national and EU research projects and is the leader of the ModelFLOWs research group, which works on applications in aerospace engineering, air pollution, and personalized medicine. |
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Gary Leal, Emeritus Board MemberUniversity of California, Santa Barbara, USA Gary obtained his Ph.D. in chemical engineering at Stanford University and did postdoctoral work at DAMTP, Cambridge University. He is the Schlinger Professor of Chemical Engineering and also holds appointments in the Mechanical Engineering and Materials departments at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is an APS Fellow and a member of NAE and the American Academy for Arts and Sciences. He served as Editor of Physics of Fluids for 18 years. His research concentrates on viscous flow phenomena and complex fluids. Gary was one of the initial lead editors of PRFluids. |
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Daphné Lemasquerier, Early Career Board MemberUniversity of St Andrews, United Kingdom Daphné Lemasquerier is a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow at the University of St Andrews in the School of Mathematics and Statistics. Her research focuses on experimental, numerical and theoretical modeling of planetary flows, from the atmospheres of gas giants to the subsurface oceans of icy moons. Daphné received her Ph.D. in Engineering, Mechanics and Physics of Fluids in October 2021 from Aix-Marseille Université (France). For this work, she received the Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award of the American Physical Society, the Turcotte Award of the American Geophysical Union and the L'Oréal-UNESCO "For Women In Science" award. |
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Anke LindnerParis University, France Anke Lindner is a professor of physics at Paris University, France and performs her research at the PMMH laboratory of the Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie (ESPCI), Paris. She obtained her Ph.D. from the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris in 2000 working on interfacial instabilities in complex fluids. She has then worked as a consultant at McKinsey and Company, in Zurich, Switzerland and as a Post-Doctoral fellow at ESPCI. Her current research activities concern the flow of complex fluids, ranging from active matter, to suspensions and biofluids and her experimental group uses original microfabrication, microflow and particle tracking techniques to investigate fluid-structure interactions in viscous flows. She has recently been awarded an ERC consolidator grant and became a fellow of the APS-DFD in November 2019. She is the Maurice Couette award winner of the French Society of Rheology 2019 and received the silver medal of the CNRS in 2021. |
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Julia LingTidal Project at X, the Moonshot Factory, USA Dr. Julia Ling is a technical lead on the Tidal project at X, the Moonshot Factory. She leads the software and machine learning team at Tidal, a project whose mission is to protect the ocean while feeding humanity sustainably. Prior to joining Tidal, Julia was the CTO at Citrine Informatics, a Bay Area start up building an AI platform to accelerate new materials development. She was a Harry S. Truman fellow at Sandia National Labs where she helped pioneer the application of deep learning to turbulence modeling. She holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and a Bachelors in Physics from Princeton University. Her areas of expertise include machine learning and data-driven algorithms for turbulence modeling and heat transfer. |
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Nicholas T. OuelletteStanford University, USA Nicholas Ouellette is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 2002 with majors in Physics and Computer Science, earned a Ph.D. in Physics from Cornell University in 2006, and did postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization and in the Physics Department at Haverford College. Before moving to Stanford, he was on the faculty in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Yale University. His current research interests include turbulence, multiphase environmental flows, erosion and sediment transport, and collective animal behavior. |
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Georgios RigasImperial College at London, United Kingdom Georgios Rigas is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College London. Before joining Imperial College in 2019, he was a Postdoctoral Scholar at Caltech and the University of Cambridge. He received a Ph.D. in Aeronautical Engineering from Imperial College in 2015. His research interests lie at the interface of experimental and theoretical fluid mechanics for modelling and controlling turbulent flows using machine learning techniques. |
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Eric ShaqfehStanford University, USA Eric is the Lester Levi Carter Professor at Stanford University. He has appointments in the Departments of Chemical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering as well as the Institute for Computational and Mathematical Engineering. His current research interests include non-Newtonian fluid mechanics (especially in the area of elastic instabilities and turbulent drag reduction), nonequilibrium polymer statistical dynamics (focusing on single-molecule studies of DNA), and suspension mechanics (particularly of fiber suspensions and particles/vesicles in microfluidics). Eric was an Associate Editor for PRFluids before joining its Editorial Board. |
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Kathleen J. StebeUniversity of Pennsylvania, USA Kathleen J. Stebe is the Richer and Elizabeth Goodwin Professor in the School Engineering and Applied Sciences in the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania. Educated at the City College of New York, she received a B.A. in Economics and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the Levich Institute advised by Charles Maldarelli. After a post-doctoral year in Compiegne, France under the guidance of Dominique Barthes-Biesel, she joined the Department of Chemical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, where she became Professor and served as the department chair. Thereafter, she joined the University of Pennsylvania. She is the past Chair of the Division of Colloids and Surface Science at the American Chemical Society, and the Vice Chair elect of the Division of Soft Matter of the American Physical Society. She has been recognized as a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, of the American Physical Society, the Radcliffe Institute and the Johns Hopkins Society of Scholars. Her research focuses on directed assembly in soft matter and at fluid interfaces, with an emphasis on confinement, geometry, and emergent structures for novel functional materials. |
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Ehud YarivTechnion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel Ehud obtained his Ph.D. in applied mathematics in 2001 from the Technion. Following a three-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he joined the Technion faculty, where he is now a Professor in the Mathematics Department. His research interests include theoretical modeling of small-scale flow and transport phenomena. |
