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Professor Eric Jean-Marie Lauga

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
2024: Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
2024: Fellow, Euromech
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 2021: Chief Editor - Physical Review Fluids
2016-2021: 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

Flow analysis of the low Reynolds number swimmerC. elegans
TD Montenegro-Johnson, DA Gagnon, PE Arratia, E Lauga
– Physical Review Fluids
(2016)
1,
053202
(doi: 10.1103/physrevfluids.1.053202)
Sensing in the mouth: A model for filiform papillae as strain amplifiers
E Lauga, CJ Pipe, B Le Révérend
– Frontiers in Physics
(2016)
4,
35
(doi: 10.3389/fphy.2016.00035)
Flagellar flows around bacterial swarms
J Dauparas, E Lauga
– Physical Review Fluids
(2016)
1,
043202
(doi: 10.1103/physrevfluids.1.043202)
Phoretic flow induced by asymmetric confinement
M Lisicki, S Michelin, E Lauga
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2016)
799,
r5
(doi: 10.1017/jfm.2016.408)
Micro-Tug-of-War: A Selective Control Mechanism for Magnetic Swimmers
P Katsamba, E Lauga
– Physical Review Applied
(2016)
5,
064019
(doi: 10.1103/physrevapplied.5.064019)
A squirmer across Reynolds numbers
NG Chisholm, D Legendre, E Lauga, AS Khair
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2016)
796,
233
(doi: 10.1017/jfm.2016.239)
Rotation of slender swimmers in isotropic-drag media.
L Koens, E Lauga
– Physical review. E
(2016)
93,
043125
(doi: 10.1103/physreve.93.043125)
Small acoustically forced symmetric bodies in viscous fluids.
F Nadal, E Lauga
– The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
(2016)
139,
1081
(doi: 10.1121/1.4942592)
Structured light enables biomimetic swimming and versatile locomotion of photoresponsive soft microrobots.
S Palagi, AG Mark, SY Reigh, K Melde, T Qiu, H Zeng, C Parmeggiani, D Martella, A Sanchez-Castillo, N Kapernaum, F Giesselmann, DS Wiersma, E Lauga, P Fischer
– Nature materials
(2016)
15,
647
(doi: 10.1038/NMAT4569)
Slender-ribbon theory
L Koens, E Lauga
– Physics of Fluids
(2016)
28,
013101
(doi: 10.1063/1.4938566)
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Research Groups

Biological Physics and Mechanics
Fluid Mechanics

Email

E.Lauga@damtp.cam.ac.uk

Room

H0.07

Telephone

01223 337031

Personal homepage

http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/lauga/index.html

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