Tenured Academic Staff

• Joris Degroote (Fluid-structure interaction, quasi-Newton methods, optimization)

Retired Academic Staff

• Erik Dick (Mach-uniform algorithms, transition models)

Visiting Professor

• Benoît Marinus (Aeroplanes)
• Tom Verstraete (Gas turbines)

Supporting staff

• Annick De Coster (Financial and administrative management)
• Yves Maenhout (System administrator)

Post-docs

• Thomas Haas (Airborne wind energy)

PhD students

• Axel Bral (Development of techniques to simulate the interaction between airjets and a flexible, fuzzy yarn)
• Amith Balusubramanya (Fluid-structure interaction simulations of cardiovascular problems, at IBiTech)
• Nicolas Boutet (Analytical study of multi-secant quasi-Newton methods for optimization problems, at RMA)
• Tom De Bruyn (Adjoint optimization of composite blades, at VKI)
• Nicolas Delaissé (Fluid-structure interaction of elasto-hydrodynamic lubrication)
• Henri Dolfen (Fluid-structure interaction simulations and uncertainty quantification of flow-induced vibration in tube bundles)
• Peyman Havaej (Fluid-structure interaction of elasto-hydrodynamic lubrication, at Soete)
• Navaneeth Kodunthirappully Narayanan (Computational analysis of fluid-structure interaction in wind engineering)
• Romain Poletti (Real-time optimization of bio-inspired wings using the deformable overset method and machine learning, at VKI)
• Niels Pynaert (Optimization of flexible aircraft models for airborne wind energy)
• François Trigaux (Aeroelasticity of large wind turbines using LES, at UCLouvain)
• Matthias Van Impe (Fluid-structure interaction simulations of cardiovascular problems, at IBiTech)
• Matija Avirovic (Experimental study of passive control of the flow around a high lift-to-drag ratio airfoil at very high altitude, at RMA)
• Mathieu Vervaecke (Fluid-structure interaction simulation of wire drawing processes)

Former members