Professor Eric Jean-Marie Lauga | Faculty of Mathematics

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CAREER
since 2017: Professor of Applied Mathematics - University of Cambridge
since 2013: Fellow and College Lecturer in Mathematics - Trinity College
2015-2017: Reader in Applied Mathematics - University of Cambridge
2013-2015: University Senior Lecturer - University of Cambridge
2010-2013: Associate Professor - University of California, San Diego
2007-2010: Assistant Professor - University of California, San Diego
2006-2007: Assistant Professor - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2005-2006: Postdoctoral Associate - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2005: Lecturer - Harvard University

EDUCATION
2005: PhD in Applied Mathematics - Harvard University
2001: MS in Fluid Mechanics - University of Paris VI Pierre et Marie Curie
2001: Diplome Corps des Mines - École des Mines de Paris
1998: Diplome d’Ingénieur - École Polytechnique

HONOURS & AWARDS
2018: Early Career Award for Soft Matter Research, APS
2016: Fellow, American Physical Society
2016: Teaching Award - Cambridge University Students' Union
2015: François Frenkiel Award for Fluid Mechanics, APS
2015: Exemplary Mentor Award, Quality of Life Research Center
2012: Faculty Mentorship Award, UCSD Graduate Student Association
2010-2011: Teacher of the Year Award - MAE, UC San Diego
2008-2013: National Science Foundation CAREER Award
2006: Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award in Fluid Dynamics, APS
2005-2006: Hock Tan Postdoctoral Fellowship - Mechanical Engineering, MIT
2004, 2005: Derek Bok Teaching Award - Harvard University
2003: Engineering and Applied Sciences Teaching Award, Harvard
1998-2001: Corps des Mines Fellowship - Ecole des Mines de Paris
1998 : Prix d’Option in Mechanics - Ecole Polytechnique

EDITORIAL RESPONSIBILITIES
since 2016: Associate Editor - Physical Review Fluids
2019: Guest editor - PLOS Computational Biology
2019: Guest editor - Proc. of the Natl. Academy of Sciences of the USA
2013-2016: Associate Editor - Physics of Fluids
2011-2016: Associate Editor - European Physical Journal E
2009-2016: Associate Editor - Journal of Fluids and Structures
2008-2016: Moderator for Fluid Dynamics - arXiv.org

Publications

Cortex-driven cytoplasmic flows in elongated cells: fluid mechanics and application to nuclear transport in Drosophila embryos

PH Htet, E Lauga

– Journal of The Royal Society Interface

(2023)

20,

20230428

(doi: 10.1098/rsif.2023.0428)

Cortex-driven cytoplasmic flows in elongated cells: fluid mechanics and application to nuclear transport in Drosophila embryos.

PH Htet, E Lauga

– Journal of The Royal Society Interface

(2023)

20,

20230428

(doi: 10.1098/rsif.2023.0428)

Cortex-driven cytoplasmic flows in elongated cells: fluid mechanics and application to nuclear transport in Drosophila embryos

PH Htet, E Lauga

(2023)

(link to publication)

Eukaryotic swimming cells are shaped by hydrodynamic constraints

M Lisicki, MFV Rodrigues, E Lauga

(2023)

(link to publication)

ISO-FLUCS: symmetrization of optofluidic manipulations in quasi-isothermal micro-environments

A Minopoli, S Wagner, E Erben, W Liao, ID Stoev, E Lauga, M Kreysing

– eLight

(2023)

3,

16

(doi: 10.1186/s43593-023-00049-z)

Hydrodynamic interactions between squirmers near walls: far-field dynamics and near-field cluster stability.

A Théry, CC Maaß, E Lauga

– Royal Society open science

(2023)

10,

230223

(doi: 10.1098/rsos.230223)

Rate invariance and scallop theorem in viscosity gradients

C Esparza López, E Lauga

– Physical Review Fluids

(2023)

8,

063301

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevFluids.8.063301)

Resistive-force theory of slender bodies in viscosity gradients

C Kamal, E Lauga

– Journal of Fluid Mechanics

(2023)

963,

a24

(doi: 10.1017/jfm.2023.336)

Theoretical model of confined thermoviscous flows for artificial cytoplasmic streaming

W Liao, E Erben, M Kreysing, E Lauga

– Physical Review Fluids

(2023)

8,

034202

(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevFluids.8.034202)

Theoretical model of confined thermoviscous flows for artificial cytoplasmic streaming

W Liao, E Erben, M Kreysing, E Lauga

(2023)

(link to publication)