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

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)

The bank of swimming organisms at the micron scale (BOSO-Micro).

MF Velho Rodrigues, M Lisicki, E Lauga

– PloS one

(2021)

16,

e0252291

(doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0252291)

Direct Measurement of Unsteady Microscale Stokes Flow Using Optically Driven Microspheres

N Bruot, P Cicuta, H Bloomfield-Gadêlha, RE Goldstein, J Kotar, E Lauga, F Nadal

– Physical Review Fluids

(2021)

6,

053102

(doi: 10.1103/physrevfluids.6.053102)

Fluid flow in the sarcomere

SA Malingen, K Hood, E Lauga, A Hosoi, TL Daniel

– Archives of biochemistry and biophysics

(2021)

706,

108923

(doi: 10.1016/j.abb.2021.108923)

Front-back asymmetry controls the impact of viscoelasticity on helical swimming

V Angeles, FA Godinez, JA Puente-Velazquez, R Mendez-Rojano, E Lauga, R Zenit

– Physical Review Fluids

(2021)

6,

043102

(doi: 10.1103/physrevfluids.6.043102)

Energetics of synchronization for model flagella and cilia

W Liao, E Lauga

– Physical Review E

(2021)

103,

042419

(doi: 10.1103/physreve.103.042419)

Editorial: On Transition (in Physical Review Fluids leadership)

B McKeon, E Lauga

– Physical Review Fluids

(2021)

6,

040001

(doi: 10.1103/physrevfluids.6.040001)

Zigzag instability of biased pusher swimmers

E Lauga, T Nghi Dang, T Ishikawa

– EPL (Europhysics Letters)

(2021)

133,

44002

(doi: 10.1209/0295-5075/133/44002)

Geometric phase methods with Stokes theorem for a general viscous swimmer

L Koens, E Lauga

– Journal of Fluid Mechanics

(2021)

916,

a17

(doi: 10.1017/jfm.2021.181)