People

PhD students

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

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

Megan Mazzatenta, PhD student, is doing experiments on spray generation by collective bubble bursting.

Hannah Williams, PhD student, is working on modeling offshore wind farm (jointly advised with Michael Mueller).

Jun Eshima, PhD student, working jointly with Howard Stone, on theory of thin films with surfactant.

Zehua Liu, PhD student, on simulations of multi-phase turbulent flows.

Postdoctoral Researchers

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

Martin Erinin, experimental work on spray transport.

Aditya Aiyer, computational work on offshore wind farm (jointly with Michael Mueller).

Xiaohui Zhou, works on modeling air-sea fluxes related to breaking waves.

Nicolo Scapin, is working on wind wave and sea spray modeling at high wind speed.

Visiting Graduate students

Clara Blanco. Bound and free waves growth under wind forcing. Spring 2023.

Undergrads

Pedro Pimenta and Itai Savage (MAE) Junior independent work (spring 2023).

Alumni (PhD and Postdocs)

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.

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 then moved to a Junior Research Chair at Ecole Normale Superieure, in Paris, until becoming a CNRS researcher at PMMH laboratory in Paris.

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 is now Assistant Professor in the department of Geosciences at Princeton University.

Alumni (Undergraduates)

Sonika Bagchi (Physics). Senior thesis 2023.

Pedro Pimenta (MAE). Junior independent work 2023.

Itai Savage (MAE). Junior independent work 2023.

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)

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.