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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

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 2016: 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

Rotation of slender swimmers in isotropic-drag media.
L Koens, E Lauga
– Physical Review E
(2016)
93,
043125
(doi: 10.1103/physreve.93.043125)
Small acoustically forced symmetric bodies in viscous fluids
F Nadal, E Lauga
– The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
(2016)
139,
1081
(doi: 10.1121/1.4942592)
Structured light enables biomimetic swimming and versatile locomotion of photoresponsive soft microrobots
S Palagi, AG Mark, SY Reigh, K Melde, T Qiu, H Zeng, C Parmeggiani, D Martella, A Sanchez-Castillo, N Kapernaum, F Giesselmann, DS Wiersma, E Lauga, P Fischer
– Nature Materials
(2016)
15,
647
(doi: 10.1038/NMAT4569)
Slender-ribbon theory
L Koens, E Lauga
– Physics of Fluids
(2016)
28,
013101
(doi: 10.1063/1.4938566)
Bacterial Hydrodynamics
E Lauga
– ANNUAL REVIEW OF FLUID MECHANICS, VOL 48
(2016)
48,
105
(doi: 10.1146/annurev-fluid-122414-034606)
Theoretical models of low-reynolds-number locomotion
OS Pak, E Lauga
(2016)
2016-January,
100
(doi: 10.1039/9781782628491-00100)
Propulsion of bubble-based acoustic microswimmers
N Bertin, TA Spelman, O Stephan, L Gredy, M Bouriau, E Lauga, P Marmottant
– Physical Review Applied
(2015)
4,
064012(1)
(doi: 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.4.064012)
A regularised singularity approach to phoretic problems
TD Montenegro-Johnson, S Michelin, E Lauga
– European Physical Journal E
(2015)
38,
139
(doi: 10.1140/epje/i2015-15139-7)
A reciprocal theorem for boundary-driven channel flows
S Michelin, E Lauga
– Physics of Fluids
(2015)
27,
111701
(doi: 10.1063/1.4935415)
Phase-separation models for swimming enhancement in complex fluids.
Y Man, E Lauga
– Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys
(2015)
92,
023004
(doi: 10.1103/physreve.92.023004)
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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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