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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: 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

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)
Bacterial Hydrodynamics
E Lauga
– Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics
(2016)
48,
105
(doi: 10.1146/annurev-fluid-122414-034606)
CHAPTER 4 Theoretical Models of Low-Reynolds-Number Locomotion
OS Pak, E Lauga
(2016)
2016-January,
100
(doi: 10.1039/9781782628491-00100)
Propulsion of bubble-based acoustic microswimmers
N Bertin, TA Spelman, O Stephan, L Gredy, M Bouriau, E Lauga, P Marmottant
– Physical Review Applied
(2015)
4,
064012(1)
(doi: 10.1103/physrevapplied.4.064012)
A regularised singularity approach to phoretic problems.
TD Montenegro-Johnson, S Michelin, E Lauga
– Eur Phys J E Soft Matter
(2015)
38,
1
(doi: 10.1140/epje/i2015-15139-7)
A reciprocal theorem for boundary-driven channel flows
S Michelin, E Lauga
– Physics of Fluids
(2015)
27,
111701
(doi: 10.1063/1.4935415)
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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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