Department of Aerospace Engineering, UIUC
313 Talbot Laboratory
104 S. Wright Street
Urbana, IL, 61801
Professor Laura Villafañe
lvillafa@illinois.edu
Interested in joining our group?
If you are an undergraduate student, please send an email to Prof. Villafañe with a brief statement of interest and with your curriculum vitae attached as a PDF document.
If you would be joining as a graduate student, please send an email to Prof. Villafañe with a brief statement of interest and with your application package (curriculum vitae, statement of purpose, and letters of reference if available). Please be sure to indicate whether or not you already have prior relevant research or work experience in fluid mechanics (experimental, computational, data analysis, etc) and an independent source of funding if applicable.
If you are a postdoctoral researcher, please send an email to Prof. Villafañe with a brief statement of interest and with your curriculum vitae and most representative publications.
Specific Open Positions:
We are looking for researchers with strong interest in fundamental fluid problems, measurement techniques, and data analysis and data fusion.
Relevant skills include: prior experiences on measurement techniques and lab work on wind/water tunnels and other experimental setups, strong fluid mechanics, mathematical and coding foundations.
Our work often involves pushing the limits of measurement techniques, designing tailored experimental setups, and developing data analysis algorithms. Whether the data originates from experiments or simulations, the goal is always to advance our understanding of the underlying physical mechanisms, and to develop models that best capture the leading physics.