PhD students
Zehua Liu, PhD student, on simulations of multi-phase turbulent flows.
Clara Martin Blanco. PhD student. Numerical modeling of broad-banded wave field, including bound and free waves under wind forcing.
Sam Koblensky, PhD student. Experimental work on bubble dynamics and spray generation.
Zhan Wu, PhD student. Experimental and computational work on bubble rupture in the presence of surfactant.
Reyna Ayala, PhD student, working on modeling wind waves.
Elisa Ponte, PhD student, working on modeling cloud microphysics.
Postdoctoral Researchers
Gwenore Pokrifka, experimental work on ice particle nucleation.
Nicolo Scapin, is working on wind wave and sea spray modeling at high wind speed.
Jinshi Chen is an Andlinger postdoc fellow working on air-sea interaction.
Visiting Graduate students
Undergraduate students
Alumni (PhD and Postdocs)
Hannah Williams, PhD MAE 2026. Hannah worked on modeling the atmospheric boundary layer above waves in the context of offshore wind farm. (jointly advised with Michael Mueller).
Jun Eshima, PhD MAE 2026. Jun worked on thin film in presence of surfactant, working jointly with Howard Stone. Jun is now Research Fellow (Buribushi), Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology
Megan Mazzatenta, PhD MAE 2026. Megan worked on aerosol production by collective bubble bursting. Megan is now a postdoctoral researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego.
Rui Yang. Postdoc 2024-2026. Worked on simulations of surface waves, including wave breaking and surfactant effects. Rui is now Assistant Professor at Tsingua University.
Paul Yi, was a HMEI Postdoctoral fellow working on a variety of problems involving turbulent flow and their impact on biogeochemical tracers. Paul’s work was primarily with Prs. Elie Bou-Zeid and Daniel Sigman.
Martin Erinin, experimental work on sea spray transport and aerosol-cloud interactions, was a postdoc in 2020-2024. Martin is now an Assistant Professor at University of Michigan (since January 2025).
Xiaohui Zhou, postdoc 2022-2024 worked on modeling air-sea fluxes related to breaking waves. Xiaohui Zhou is now working at NASA-Maryland.
Dan Shaw, PhD MAE 2023. Dan worked on various problems involving bubble dynamics at the air-water surface, including coalescence, bursting, and microplastics emissions. After graduation, Dan took a position at R&D engineer in PepsiCo.
Dan Ruth: https://github.com/danjruth PhD 2022 (MAE). Dan worked on bubbles in turbulence and is now postdoctoral researcher at ETH Zurich, working with Prof. Coletti.
Ching-Yao Lai (MAE PhD 2019), 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 was Assistant Professor in the department of Geosciences at Princeton University before moving to Stanford.
Baptiste Néel (postdoc 2019-2022) performed experimental work on spray generation by collective bubble bursting. Baptiste went to do a postdoctoral researcher at IMFT Toulouse (France) and is now Maitre de Conference at Universite Aix-Marseille.
Sheetal Ramsurrun, MSc 2022 (MAE), Sheetal worked on wave modeling and gas transfer at the air-sea interface. After graduation, in September 2022, Sheetal joined the California based company Applied Intuition as Simulation Engineer.
Alienor Riviere (2019-2022, visiting graduate student), from ENS, on bubble break-up. Alienor defended her PhD in September 2024 in Paris advised by Stephane Perrard and working on turbulence and interface. Alienor is a postdoc at EPFL since 2025.
Emre Turkoz (MAE PhD 2019) was visiting PhD student from Craig Arnold’ lab (2017-2019), working on modeling visco-elastic jest using Basilisk. Emre is now a Research Scientist at Exxon
Alumni (Undergraduates)
Karina Lad (Physics). HMEI summer internship 2025.
Reese Knopp (MAE) Senior thesis (2023-2024).
Sonika Bagchi (Physics). Senior thesis 2023.
Pedro Pimenta (MAE). Junior independent work 2023 and senior thesis 2024.
Sonika Bagchi (Physics). Junior paper 2022.
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)
Noe Daniel, visiting master student in spring 2025, from ENS, bubble bursting.
Emmy Roy, visiting master student in spring 2024, from ENSTA, bubble fragmentation.
Ilian Ahmed, visiting master student in spring 2024, from ENS, aerosol-nucleation experiments.
Clara Martin Blanco, visiting master student in spring 2023, wind wave dynamics.
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.