Who’s who

Experienced Researcher

Lorenzo Raffaele

Environmental and Applied Fluid Dynamics Departmentimg_CV
Windblown Sand Modelling and Mitigation (WSMM) R&D joint group
von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics – Belgium
Born in 1990, PhD in Civil and Environmental Enginnering
H-index 5
Lorenzo is a wind engineer specialising in probabilistic modelling of windblown sand action, design and performance assessment of sand mitigation measures.
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Phone: +32 (0)2 486 91 20
E-mail: lorenzo.raffaele@vki.ac.be

Scientific Supervisors

Jeroen van Beeck

Environmental and Applied Fluid Dynamics Department
von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics – Belgium
H-index 26
PhD in Fluid Dynamics
Jeroen is an applied physician specialising in multiphase flows, wind engineering, wind energy, and vehicle aerodynamics.

Phone: +32 (0)2 359 96 78
Email:  vanbeeck@vki.ac.be

Nicolas Coste

R&D Department
Windblown Sand Modelling and Mitigation (WSMM) R&D joint group

Optiflow Company – France
PhD in Fluid Mechanics
H-index 6
Nicolas is a skilled consultant in computational wind engineering specializing in Atmospheric Boundary Layer and flow around complex environment.
Supervising WP2 Wind Sand Computational Simulation

Phone: +33 (0)4 918 17 740
Email:  coste@optiflow.fr

 

Project Manager

Sophia Buckingham

Project Management Office
von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics – Belgium
Sophia is a senior research engineer with expertise in environmental flows & safety, aerodynamics  & aeronautics, liquid metals & industrial flows.

Email: sophia.buckingham@vki.ac.be

Wind Tunnel Manager

Gertjan Glabeke

Project Management Office
von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics – Belgium
Gertjan is a senior test engineer with expertise in fluid dynamics and wind turbines.

Email: gertjan.glabeke@vki.ac.be