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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
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

Editorial: Five Years of Physical Review Fluids
E Lauga, B McKeon, B Rubin, G Boffetta, M Brenner, C Cottin-Bizonne, L Danaila, N Hadjiconstantinou, G He, P Koumoutsakos, S Lele, E Meiburg, D Quere, P Schmid, E Shaqfeh, J Snoeijer, H Stone, B Sutherland, E Villermaux, R Zenit
– Physical Review Fluids
(2021)
6,
120001
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevFluids.6.120001)
Stabilizing viscous extensional flows using reinforcement learning
M Vona, E Lauga
– Physical review. E
(2021)
104,
055108
(doi: 10.1103/physreve.104.055108)
Fluid Mechanics of Mosaic Ciliated Tissues
R Goldstein, J Jullien, E Lauga, F Boselli
– Physical Review Letters
(2021)
127,
198102
(doi: 10.1103/physrevlett.127.198102)
Microswimming in viscoelastic fluids
G Li, E Lauga, AM Ardekani
– Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics
(2021)
297,
104655
(doi: 10.1016/j.jnnfm.2021.104655)
Purely viscous acoustic propulsion of bimetallic rods
J McNeill, N Sinai, J Wang, V Oliver, E Lauga, F Nadal, TE Mallouk
– Physical Review Fluids
(2021)
6,
l092201
(doi: 10.1103/physrevfluids.6.l092201)
Dynamics of a helical swimmer crossing viscosity gradients
C Esparza López, J Gonzalez-Gutierrez, F Solorio-Ordaz, E Lauga, R Zenit
– Physical Review Fluids
(2021)
6,
083102
(doi: 10.1103/physrevfluids.6.083102)
A mechanism for sarcomere breathing: volume change and advective flow within the myofilament lattice.
JA Cass, CD Williams, TC Irving, E Lauga, S Malingen, TL Daniel, SN Sponberg
– Biophysical Journal
(2021)
120,
4079
(doi: 10.1016/j.bpj.2021.08.006)
Hydrodynamics and direction change of tumbling bacteria.
M Dvoriashyna, E Lauga
– PLoS One
(2021)
16,
e0254551
(doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0254551)
Asymptotic theory of hydrodynamic interactions between slender filaments
M Tătulea-Codrean, E Lauga
– Physical Review Fluids
(2021)
6,
074103
(doi: 10.1103/physrevfluids.6.074103)
Rechargeable self-assembled droplet microswimmers driven by surface phase transitions
D Cholakova, M Lisicki, SK Smoukov, S Tcholakova, EE Lin, J Chen, G De Canio, E Lauga, N Denkov
– Nature Physics
(2021)
17,
1050
(doi: 10.1038/s41567-021-01291-3)
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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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