About me

I am an Assistant Professor at the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics in Belgium, where I lead the Research Expertise Group on Wind Energy and Environmental Flows. My work sits at the intersection of turbulence physics, high-fidelity numerical simulations, and real-world applications in wind energy and atmospheric flows.

I am passionate about environmental fluid dynamics and turbulence, and I believe wind energy is a cornerstone of the sustainable electricity system we need to build. My research ranges from the fundamental — developing algorithms for large-scale turbulent flow simulations, leveraging HPC technologies, and combining simulation with optimization — to the applied: using numerical weather prediction models and multi-fidelity tools to understand and predict wind farm flows, atmospheric boundary layers, and their interactions with the energy system.

I completed my PhD at KU Leuven under Johan Meyers, working on large-eddy simulation and optimal coordinated control of wind farm boundary layers. After a visiting period at Johns Hopkins with Charles Meneveau, a postdoc back at KU Leuven, and a year as a lecturer in scientific computing at TU Eindhoven, I joined VKI in 2020.

Teaching is something I care about and have invested in throughout my career, from introductory calculus courses at BSc level all the way to post-graduate courses on atmospheric flows and turbulence at VKI. I currently supervise a group of PhD students and postdocs working on wind energy, mesoscale atmospheric modelling, and wake physics.