People

PhD students

 Jiarong Wu, PhD student, is working on wind waves using direct numerical simulations.

Dan Shaw, PhD student, is working on bubble dynamics at the air-water surface, including coalescence and bursting.

Dan Ruth, PhD student, is doing laboratory experiments on bubble dynamic and break-up in turbulence.

Sheetal Ramsurrun, PhD student, is working on wave modeling and gas transfer at the air-sea interface

Megan Mazzatenta, PhD student, is working on spray generation and droplet transport in a turbulent boundary layer.

Postdoctoral Researchers

Palas Kumar Farsoiya, numerical work on gas diffusion and phase change.

Martin Erinin, experimental work on spray transport.

Baptiste Néel, experimental work on spray generation by collective bubble bursting.

Aditya Aiyer, computational work on offshore wind farm.

Visiting Graduate students

Alienor Riviere (spring 2019), from ENS, on bubble break-up. Alienor is now a graduate student in Paris with Stephane Perrard and continues to work on turbulence and interface.

Undergrads

Sonika Bagchi (Physics). Junior fall project 2021.

Alumni (PhD and Postdocs)

Wouter Mostert (postdoc from 2017 to 2020), numerical work on multiphase turbulence, nonlinear and breaking waves, using Basilisk. Wouter then moved on to be Assistant Professor at Missouri University of Science and Technology, and has now joined Oxford University as faculty.

Stephane Perrard (Postdoc in 2017), experimental work on bubbles in turbulence. Stephane is now holding a Junior Research Chair at Ecole Normale Superieure, in Paris, and will soon start as CNRS researcher in the PMMH laboratory.

Yao Lai, was visiting PhD student from Howard Stone lab, MAE, and worked on bursting bubble dynamics (2017-2018). Yao then moved on to be a postdoctoral researcher at Lamont (Columbia University). Yao is now Assistant Professor in the department of Geosciences at Princeton University.

 Emre Turkoz, was visiting PhD student from Craig Arnold’ lab (MAE), working on modeling visco-elastic jest using Basilisk. Emre is now a Research Scientist at Exxon

Alumni (Undergraduates)

Sreeta Basu (MAE). HMEI Summer internship 2021.

Sonika Bagchi (Physics). HMEI Summer internship 2021.

Lucy Madden (U Mass). PRISM REU program. Summer internship 2021.

Anthony Barnett (MAE) Senior independent work, 2021.

Demetra Yancopoulos (CEE) PEI Summer internship 2020

Ethan Lam (MAE) PEI Summer internship 2020

Kaitao (David) Tang (Junior, MAE, Independent Work fall 2019)

Chuxuan Zhao (Junior, MAE, Independent Work spring 2020)

Francis Odinakachukwu Ogoke (CBE) PEI summer internship 2017 and 2018. Senior Thesis 2019. On droplet impact on oil spills.

Cindy Song (CS/Economics). PEI summer intern 2019

Mench Santelices (MAE). PEI summer intern 2019

Alex Taylor-Lash (MAE). PEI summer intern 2019

Chris Ferrigine (MAE). MAE summer intern 2019

Anna Qin (CS). Undergraduate PEI Summer internship 2018.

Eric Dogariu (EE). Undergraduate PEI summer internship 2017.

Alumni (Visiting graduate students)

Marlone Vernet, Visiting Master student in fall 2019 from ENS Lyon, bubble dynamics in turbulence. Marlone is now a graduate student at ENS in Paris.

Nicolas Chapuis, Visiting Master student, from ENS, spring and summer 2018, on collective bubble dynamics.

Leila Dhar, Visiting Master student from ENSTA-Paris Tech, spring 2018, on air entrainment by liquid jets.