Current group members

Shervin Bagheri

Professor

ERC Consolidator recipient (2022)
WISE Faculty (2022)
Wallenberg Academy Fellow (2017)
SSF Future Research Leader (2017)
Coordinator of INTERFACE

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About me

I was born in 1979 in Iran and moved to Lund, Sweden at the age of 8. I graduated in engineering physics at Uppsala University in 2006 and received a PhD in fluid mechanics at KTH 2010. I spent a year as Marie Curie Fellow in Italy before receiving an assistant professor position funded by the Swedish Research Council. Since 2019 I am a professor at the Department of Mechanics, KTH.

Background

2019 Professor, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
2015 Associate Professor, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden

2014 Docent in Flow Control, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden

2012 Assistant Professor, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden

2011 Marie Curie Fellow (IEF), DICAT, Genoa, Italy

2010 PhD in Fluid Mechanics, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden

2006 M.S. in Engineering Physics, Uppsala Univ., Sweden

Si Suo

Postdoctoral student

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About me

Born in a small town of China, I traveled to Xi'an (Xi'an Jiaotong Univ) for B.E., to Nanjing (Southeast Univ) for the M.E., to Sydney (The Univ of Syd) for the PhD, and finally Stockholm as a postdoc.

I am driven by my curiosity, and currently focus on the multiphase flows in porous media. Love coding, love exploring various possibilities.

Willy Bonneuil

Postdoctoral student

About me

My core scientific interest is to study the role of mechanical phenomena in human physiology. I obtained a diploma in engineering from ISAE-Supaéro, Toulouse, in 2017 and an MSc in biomedical engineering from Imperial College London in 2016. I stayed at Imperial College for a PhD under the supervision of Prof James E. Moore Jr. There, I studied fluid flow and molecular transport in lymphoid organs through a combination of experimental microfluidic and theoretical methods. At KTH since 2022, I aim to develop a computational framework of fluid flow and molecular transport in soft biological tissues with a view towards improving the development of brain organoids.

Zhaoyu Shi

Postdoc

About me

I obtained my PhD degree in NTNU, Trondheim Norway. My research expertise so far generally lies in multiphase flows, vortex dynamics and turbulence modeling, with a great interest in particle‐laden, urban flows and oceanic, atmospheric problems. I'm currently extending my research scale to wall-bounded turbulence involved with machine learning and data-driven methods. The project is funded by Swedish Energy Agency, aiming to accurately predict the drag over rough surfaces. Welcome to contact me if you're interested in any related fundamental or engineering topics or just enthusiastic about skiing.

Romain Vallon

Postdoctoral student

About me

Mostly focusing on multiphase flows, I studied the fragmentation of liquid jets during my Ph.D. and now study the flow dynamics over liquid-infused surfaces contaminated by surfactants. I obtained an MSc in Mechanical Engineering from Centrale Marseille, Marseilles (France), and an MSc in Aerospace Engineering from Tsinghua University, Beijing (China) in 2018. After my degree in Beijing, I returned to Marseilles to start my Ph.D. at IRPHE, Aix-Marseille University, under the supervision of Fabien Anselmet and Malek Abid. The research focus was then on liquid jet fragmentation, studied thanks to Direct Numerical Simulations (DNS) using the solver Basilisk and experiments. The aim was to compare theories of radically different natures, respectively relying on the intermittency of turbulence and on ligament-mediated fragmentation.
Since I joined the group, I aim to study how surfactants influence the flow dynamics over Liquid-Infused Surfaces (LIS). Despite being difficult to measure and everywhere present, those chemicals induce critical changes even at microscopic concentrations and adversely impact the drag-reduction property of LIS.

Seyed Morteza Habibi Khorasani

PhD student

About me

I was born in Iran in the year 1991. After obtaining a BSc in Mechanical Engineering in 2015 I opted to pursue further studies abroad, leading to my enrollment at KTH as a master's student in the Engineering Mechanics program which I concluded in 2018. Afterwards, I joined the Fluids and Surfaces group as a PhD student. Here I will work with numerical simulations of flows over and through porous media.

Sofia Saoncella

PhD Student

About me

I was born in Padua, Italy in 1995. I studied Physics at the University of Padua wherein 2019 I got a master's degree in Physics of Matter. During the master studies, I focused my interest in the intriguing field of microfluidics and mostly in its applications in biosensing and surface phenomena, the main theme of my experimental thesis work. In October 2019 I moved to Stockholm to begin my doctoral studies within the Fluid and Surfaces group. Here, with my Ph.D. project, I am studying the interactions between different complex surfaces and turbulent flow by performing experiments in a new and high-speed water channel.

Cornelius Wittig

Phd Student

About me

I was born in Berlin, Germany, in 1994. During my studies in Engineering Science at Technische Universität Berlin I focused on the experimental side of fluid dynamics with its many applications. I finished my studies in 2020 and joined the Fluids and Surfaces group in 2021 as a PhD student. Here, I will work on the interaction between biofilms and the surrounding flow in both laminar and turbulent conditions.

Michele Pellegrino

PhD Student (Main advisor Prof Berk Hess)

About me

I was born in Magenta, Italy, in 1994. I studied Mathematical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, obtaining the Bachelor of Science in 2016 and the Master of Science in 2019, with a small interlude as Erasmus student at TU Delft. My background is mainly computational; since I realized in the late stages of my studies that I enjoyed delving into physics as well as mathematics, I started to direct myself towards computational physics. My master thesis revolved around implementing a particle method for a generalized Boltzmann equation, with application in microfluidics. My Ph.D. research work focuses on molecular simulations aimed to investigate dynamic wetting phenomena; in particular, I am interested in understanding what are the molecular processes affecting the stability and mobility of three-phases contact lines.

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