People
Principal Investigator
Postdoctoral Researchers
Graduate Students
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Alex Brown
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Christopher Deloach
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Emily Melvin
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Kristin Swartz-Schult
Undergraduate Students
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Darius Colangelo
Undergraduate Researcher
Former Students and Postdocs
- Andrew Grace was a postdoctoral scholar from 2023 - 2025 working on large particle transport in turbulent flows. He went on to become an Assistant Professor in Applied Mathematics at the University of Colorado Boulder
- Rolf Seh received his M.S. in 2025 with a thesis entitled "Investigation of aerosol impacts on fog formation in the marine boundary layer using a LES-LCM approach"
- Chibueze Oguejiofor received his Ph.D. in 2024 with a thesis entitled "On the internal processes modulating tropical cyclone intensity: Turbulent stresses and submesoscale dynamics". He went on to a position in the insurance industry at Verisk Extreme Events Solutions
- Camilo Rodriguez was a postdoctoral scholar from 2021-2023. He went on to another postdoctoral position at the University of California, Merced
- Colin Denzel received his M.S. in 2023 with a thesis entitled "A physics informed stochastic model for the behavior of particles in Rayleigh-Benard Turbulence". He now works for Ball Aerospace in Colorado
- Charlotte Wainwright arrived in 2018 as a postdoctoral scholar, and left in 2022 as a Research Scientist. She now works in the insurance industry in Boston
- Daniel Sexton received his M.S. in 2022 with a thesis entitled "Rayleigh number effects on direct numerical simulations of the Pi Chamber"
- Wei Gao was a postdoctoral researcher from February 2021 - February 2022, and worked on particle-laden turbulence and dust transport
- John Park received his Ph.D. in 2021, and went on to a National Research Council postdoc at the Naval Research Laboratory in Monterey, CA
- Karina Soto Rivas received her joint Notre Dame-Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile Ph.D. in 2021, and moved on to a postdoctoral position in Chile
- Guiquan Wang was a postdoctoral researcher from January 2018 - October 2019, and worked on particle-laden turbulence and dust transport. He currently works for IMEC in Belgium
- Tianze Peng received his Ph.D. in 2020 with a thesis entitled "Thermodynamic feedback of evaporating sea spray droplets in marine atmospheric turbulent boundary layer", and went on to a postdoctoral position at McGill University
- Elise Wright received her Ph.D. in 2019 with a thesis entitled "Lagrangian methods to study mixing and reactions in flows through heterogeneous porous media", and now works as a hydrologist at the USGS
- Indrajith Nissanka was a postdoctoral scholar at Notre Dame from 2016-2018 and worked on parameterizations of aerosols in the marine atmospheric boundary layer. He is now a Senior Lecturer at the University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
- Duy Nguyen graduated with his M.S. in 2017 with a thesis entitled "Sea spray concentration profile in the marine atmospheric boundary layer"
- Brian Helgans graduated with his M.S. in 2015 with a thesis entitled "Turbulent latent and sensible heat flux in the presence of evaporative droplets"