Dr Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz PhD

Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz graduated with a BEng in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Southampton in 2003. After a summer working with the ATLAS Magnet Team at CERN, he completed an MSc in Applied Mathematics at Imperial College in 2004, and an MS (2007) and a PhD (2011) in Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. He subsequently worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Cornell and as a Devonshire Postdoctoral Scholar at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. His interests include vortex dynamics, fluid stability, and waves in stratified fluids.

At Southampton, Luzzatto-Fegiz was awarded the Graham prize for best experimental project in the School of Engineering Sciences, together with the Royal Aeronautical Society Prize for highest first-class degree. At Cornell, he received a Graduate Fellowship, as well as the Bolgiano Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award. His doctoral work received the 2011 Acrivos Award of the American Physical Society for outstanding dissertation in Fluid Dynamics at a U.S. university.

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