John Dabiri
John Dabiri is the Centennial Chair Professor at Caltech, with appointments in the Graduate Aerospace Laboratories (GALCIT) and Mechanical Engineering. His research focuses on unsteady fluid mechanics and flow physics, with particular emphasis on topics relevant to biology, energy, and the environment. Current interests include biological fluid dynamics in the ocean, next-generation wind energy, and development of new experimental methods. Dabiri is a MacArthur Fellow and Fellow of the American Physical Society. Other honors include the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the Office of Naval Research Young Investigator Program Award, and being named one of MIT Technology Review's "35 Innovators Under 35" as well as one of Popular Science's "Brilliant 10."
Léonie Canet
Léonie Canet is a Professor at University Grenoble Alpes and she is a member of the Institut Universitaire de France. She obtained her PhD in 2004 at University Paris 7, and was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Manchester and at the CEA Saclay for two years, before being recruited as Associate Professor at University Grenoble Alpes. She is a theoretical physicist, working in the field of non-equilibrium statistical physics. She is an expert in field theoretical methods, and in particular in functional and non-perturbative renormalisation group techniques. She was awarded the Bronze medal of CNRS in 2018.
Marc Avila
Marc Avila studied Mathematics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and at the University of Glasgow and got his PhD in Applied Physics and Scientific Computing from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in 2008. During his PhD, he was a research scholar at the Arizona State University and subsequently a postdoc at the Max-Planck-Institute for Dynamics and Self-Oorganization. Prior to becoming Professor of fluid mechanics at the University of Bremen, and Director of its Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM), he was Professor at the University of Erlangen-NürnbergNuremberg. He received the Euromech Young Scientist Award in 2009 and the Richard-von-Mises Prize of the GAMM in 2018.