XXIV Fluid Mechanics Conference

Joined the University of Liverpool in 2011, after holding a Lectureship at the University of Edinburgh (2004-1011) and a Marie Curie Fellowship at the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris (2001-2004). In 2009-10 he was Visiting Professor and Lagrange Fellow at Politecnico di Torino (Italy). He has more than 100 scientific publications in the areas of soft matter, multiphase flows, and thermodynamics, including several contributions on non-Newtonian drops and on the dynamic wetting of complex fluids. He has been the recipient of a Royal Academy of Engineering Global Research Award (2009) and the UIT Young Scientist Prize (2001).

Julian Domaradzki is a Professor in the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He is an author or co-author of over 200 scientific contributions with focus on turbulence theory, modeling, and numerical simulations. His professional background includes a Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of Warsaw, Poland, in 1979, followed by postdoctoral positions at Essen University 1980-1981, Princeton University 1981-1983, and MIT 1983-1984. After joining USC in 1987 he held a number of visiting positions (Technical University in Munich; Université Libre in Brussels; Technical University in Dresden; ETH in Zürich; Tokyo Technical University; German Aerospace Establishment in Göttingen) and was awarded several scientific honors (Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (2011), Fellow of the American Physical Society (2008), Ouverture Internationale Award (2006), Invitation Research Fellowship of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2000), Alexander von Humboldt Research Award (1992) and Fellowship (1980), and USC Northrop Research Faculty Award (1991)). Since 2017 he has been serving as Chair of the AME department.

Mohamed Gad-el-Hak received his B.Sc. (summa cum laude) in mechanical engineering from Ain Shams University in 1966 and his Ph.D. in fluid mechanics from the Johns Hopkins University in 1973. Gad-el-Hak has since taught and conducted research at the University of Southern California, University of Virginia, University of Notre Dame, Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, Université de Poitiers, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Technische Universität München and Technische Universität Berlin, and has lectured extensively at seminars in the United States and overseas. Dr. Gad-el-Hak is currently the Inez Caudill Eminent Professor of mechanical & nuclear engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University. From 2002 to 2009, Gad-el-Hak was the chair of mechanical engineering at VCU.

Dr. Gad-el-Hak has published over 600 articles, authored/edited 20 books and conference proceedings, and presented 300 invited lectures. He is the author of the book “Flow Control: Passive, Active, and Reactive Flow Management,” and editor of the books “Frontiers in Experimental Fluid Mechanics,” “Advances in Fluid Mechanics Measurements,” “Flow Control: Fundamentals and Practices,” “The MEMS Handbook” (first and second editions), "Transition and Turbulence Control,"" and "Large-Scale Disasters: Prediction, Control and Mitigation.""

Professor Gad-el-Hak is a fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Institute of Physics, the American Physical Society, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers.

In 1998, Professor Gad-el-Hak was named the Fourteenth ASME Freeman Scholar. In 1999, Gad-el-Hak was awarded the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Prize, Germany’s highest research award for senior U.S. scientists and scholars in all disciplines. In 2002, Gad-el-Hak was named ASME Distinguished Lecturer, as well as inducted into the Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars. In 2016, he was awarded the ASME Medal for significant contributions to the advancement of the science and practice of fluids engineering

Andrzej Herczyński is a Research Professor and Laboratory Director in the Department of Physics at Boston College. He was educated at the University of Warsaw and at Lehigh University (Ph.D. in physics in 1987). His research has been in fluid dynamics and applied mathematics, including linear waves in complex environments. He has also been interested in connections between natural sciences and the arts, and has collaborated with the Honors Program at Boston College and Collegium Artes Liberales at the University of Warsaw. He published on the physics of Jackson Pollock’s painting technique, and developed an interdisciplinary summer course The Art of Physics at the University of Parma. In 2017, he was the principal organizer of the program on Growth, Form, and Self-Organization at the Newton Institute in Cambridge, and the related exhibition Form in Art: Art of Form. A recent crossover project is on Paul Klee Notebooks: Form & Mathematics.

Professor Nicholas Lawson holds a Chair in Aerodynamics and Airborne Measurement and heads the National Flying Laboratory Centre (NFLC) at Cranfield University. He is also a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and a member of the Society of Flight Test Engineers. Professor Lawson joined Cranfield University as a Senior Lecturer in October 2003. Prior to this he worked at Cranfield University Shrivenham for four years lecturing in aerodynamics, thermofluids, missile and aircraft propulsion at the Defence Academy, after completing a 4 year post-doctoral position at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His PhD was completed at Loughborough University with Rolls Royce plc. Professor Lawson has extensive experience in the development and application of particle image velocimetry (PIV) and laser Doppler anemometry (LDA) to high speed, large scale, non-Newtonian and multi-phase flows, where he has worked with industrial partners including Airbus UK, Rolls Royce plc and MBDA. He has also worked in EU FP6 and FP7 research projects with partners including NLR, DLR and Rzeszow University of Technology in ‘Advanced In-Flight Measurements' 1 and 2. His current research focus is on the application and development of advanced instrumentation for aircraft, airborne research and flight trials, where the application of fibre optic sensors in-flight is a key focus of his work. He holds a commercial pilots licence with MEP IR and instructor ratings, a Jetstream 31/32 type rating and is one of the pilots flying for NFLC. He is also one of the demonstrators lecturing and instructing students on flight dynamics short courses in the Jetstream 31 flying laboratory.

Bernd R. Noack is Director of Research CNRS at LIMSI, Paris-Saclay, Professor and Chair in Turbulence Control at TU Berlin, Professor and Chair in Flow Modeling and Control at TU Braunschweig, and Visiting Professor at Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen. Past affiliations include the United Technologies Research Center, Max-Planck Society, German Aerospace Center and University of Göttingen.

He develops closed-loop turbulence control solutions for cars, airplanes and transport systems in an interdisciplinary effort with leading groups in Europe, China and USA/Canada. His team is advancing the frontiers of nonlinear control-oriented reduced-order models and machine learning control, an automated learning of control laws in the experiment.

He has co-authored over 200 publications, 2 patents and 2 textbooks. His work has been honored by numerous awards, e.g. a Fellowship of the American Physical Society, a CNRS Scientific Excellence award, a Senior ANR Chair of Excellence in France, and an annual von Mises Award of International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics.