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 would be joining as 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. We offer course credit for a sufficient time commitment.
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) attached as a single PDF document. We are primarily interested in students who would like to pursue a PhD, but not only. 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 independent source of funding if applicable.
If you would be joining as a postdoctoral scholar, please send an email to Prof. Villafañe with a brief statement of interest and with your curriculum vitae and three representative publications attached as PDF documents.
Specific Open Positions:
We are looking for graduate students or postdoctoral researchers with strong interest in fundamental fluid problems. Current opportunities:
1) Magnetic Resonance Imaging for fluid dynamics. The work will be conducted in collaboration with researchers at the Beckman Institute Biomedical Imaging Group (BIC) at UIUC,
2) Turbulent particle-laden flows. Experimental and theoretical research on turbulent flows and particle-turbulence interactions on the longest vertical channel flow facility at Talbot Laboratory at UIUC.
Our work most 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.