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Biological Physics & Mechanics

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: Fellow of the Royal Society (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

Publisher's Note: "Jet propulsion without inertia" [Phys. Fluids 22, 081902 (2010)]
SE Spagnolie, E Lauga
– Physics of Fluids
(2010)
22,
099901
(doi: 10.1063/1.3489020)
Hydrodynamic friction of fakir-like superhydrophobic surfaces
AMJ DAVIS, E LAUGA
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2010)
661,
402
(doi: 10.1017/s0022112010003460)
Jet propulsion without inertia
SE Spagnolie, E Lauga
– Physics of Fluids
(2010)
22,
081902
(doi: 10.1063/1.3469786)
Stokesian jellyfish: viscous locomotion of bilayer vesicles
AA Evans, SE Spagnolie, E Lauga
– SOFT MATTER
(2010)
6,
1737
(doi: 10.1039/b924548k)
Pumping by flapping in a viscoelastic fluid.
OS Pak, T Normand, E Lauga
– Physical Review E
(2010)
81,
036312
(doi: 10.1103/physreve.81.036312)
Two-dimensional flagellar synchronization in viscoelastic fluids
GJ ELFRING, OS PAK, E LAUGA
– Journal of Fluid Mechanics
(2010)
646,
505
(doi: 10.1017/S0022112009994010)
The optimal elastic flagellum
SE Spagnolie, E Lauga
– Physics of Fluids
(2010)
22,
1
(doi: 10.1063/1.3318497)
Shaking-induced motility in suspensions of soft active particles.
D Bartolo, E Lauga
– Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys
(2010)
81,
026312
(doi: 10.1103/physreve.81.026312)
The Long-Time Dynamics of Two Hydrodynamically-Coupled Swimming Cells
S Michelin, E Lauga
– Bulletin of Mathematical Biology
(2009)
72,
973
(doi: 10.1007/s11538-009-9479-6)
The friction of a mesh-like super-hydrophobic surface
AMJ Davis, E Lauga
– Physics of Fluids
(2009)
21,
1
(doi: 10.1063/1.3250947)
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Research Group

Biological Physics and 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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