Speakers

First Keynote speaker:

François Gallaire obtained, in 1998, an engineering degree from the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris and, in 1999, a master's degree at the Pierre et Marie Curie University, also in Paris. He then joined the Laboratory of Hydrodynamics (LadHyX) at the Ecole Polytechnique in 2003, under the direction of Jean-Marrc Chomaz. In 2003, he was appointed CNRS research fellow at the J.A. Dieudonné Laboratory of the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, and in 2009, he joined the EPFL to found the Laboratory of Fluid Mechanics and Instabilities (LFMI). His research focuses on the study of fundamental stability properties of fluid flows and is guided by real-world applications, in particular flow control. Recently, he has made contributions in the fields of micro-fluidics, the stability of free-interface flows, damping mechanisms in sloshing flows and the stability of flow around porous obstacles. Francois Gallaire is fellow of the American physical society.

Second Keynote Speaker:

Kilian Oberleithner is Professor at TU Berlin, where he established the Laboratory for Flow Instabilities and Dynamics in 2018. He received his PhD from TU Berlin in 2012, with several research stays at the University of Arizona. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Monash University before his appointment at TU Berlin. His research interests revolve around linearized mean field methods and their application to turbulent multiphysics flows. He is also engaged in data assimilation, loworder modelling and optimization for engineering flows, addressing gas turbine thermoacoustics, wind turbine aeroacoustics and hydro turbine instabilities. Throughout his career, he has authored more than 90 journal articles and serves as an associate editor for the Journal of Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics. He received recognition, including the Silver Medal of The Combustion Institute, several ASME best paper awards, and a feature in Focus on Fluids.

Third Keynote speaker:

Dr Elena Marensi is a lecturer of Fluid Mechanics in the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering at the University of Sheffield. Prior to this, Dr Marensi was an ISTplus Fellow in the Nonlinear Dynamics & Turbulence group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) and a PDRA in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sheffield. She holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Sheffield, jointly with the A*Star Institute of High Performance Computing in Singapore.
Dr Marensi’s research focuses on transition to turbulence in wall-bounded shear flows, flow instabilities, turbulence modelling and control, and flow optimisation. To tackle these problems she combines mathematical tools with high-fidelity computer simulations and data-driven approaches.