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    Luca Biancofiore is an Italian and American researcher who received his PhD in fluid mechanics from the University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis in 2011. He has held several research positions, including as a Marie Curie Fellow at Imperial College London from 2013-present. His research focuses on the stability of wakes and jets through direct numerical simulation and large eddy simulation. He has published over 10 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences on topics related to confined turbulent wakes and non-Newtonian fluids.

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    Luca Biancofiore is an Italian and American researcher who received his PhD in fluid mechanics from the University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis in 2011. He has held several research positions, including as a Marie Curie Fellow at Imperial College London from 2013-present. His research focuses on the stability of wakes and jets through direct numerical simulation and large eddy simulation. He has published over 10 papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences on topics related to confined turbulent wakes and non-Newtonian fluids.

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    Europass

    Curriculum Vitae

    Personal information

    Surname(s) / First name(s) Biancofiore, Luca


    Address(es) Office: Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, Exhibition
    Road, South Kensington, London, SW7 2AZ, United Kingdom
    Email(s) [email protected]
    Nationality(-ies) Italy / USA
    Date of birth 01 April 1981

    Professional experience
    10/2013 Research Fellow at Imperial College London, United Kingdom, Marie Curie Fellow-
    ship, supervisor T. Zaki
    09/2012-08/2013 Research Associate at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden
    (Göran Gustafsson Fellowship), supervisor L. Brandt
    01/2012-08/12 Research Associate at Imperial College London, United Kingdom, supervisor T. Zaki.

    09/2011-12/2011 Postdoctoral researcher at University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis, France

    Education
    2007 - 2011 PhD Thesis in Fluid Mechanics
    Supervisors François Gallaire and Richard Pasquetti
    Subject Influence of confinement on the spatio-temporal development of wake flows
    University of Nice - Sophia Antipolis - France
    2004 - 2006 Master degree in Chemical Engineering
    University of L’Aquila - Italy
    Final note 110/110 cum laude
    2000 - 2004 Undergraduate studies in Chemical Engineering
    University of L’Aquila - Italy
    Final note 110/110 cum laude

    Research traineeships
    2013 One month as visiting researcher at EPFL/LFMI - Lausanne - Switzerland
    2011 Summer school Micro and Complex flow 2011, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH),
    Stockholm.
    2010 Three months for PhD traineeship to EPFL/LFMI - Lausanne - Switzerland under the
    direction of François Gallaire.
    2007 Summer school LMS EPSRC Short Course, Hydrodynamic Stability Theory, Keele
    University.
    2005 - 2006 Nine months Master traineeship at Chemical Engineering Laboratory of University of
    L’Aquila.
    Supervisor Lorenzo Giovanni Gibilaro
    Subject Experimental measure of the dynamic and the kinematic wave in fluidized beds.
    2004 Three months License traineeship under the direction of Lorenzo Giovanni Gibilaro at
    Chemical Engineering Laboratory of University of L’Aquila.

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    Luca Biancofiore
    Invited seminars
    November 2013 Confined turbulent wakes, LIMSI, Orsay, France
    November 2013 Influence of confinement on spatially evolving wakes, IRPHE, Marseille, France
    July 2013 Interaction between counterpropagating Rossby waves and capillary waves in
    planar jets and wakes, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
    May 2013 Influence of confinement on spatially evolving wakes, IMFT, Toulouse, France
    October 2012 Confined turbulent wakes, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden

    Languages
    Italian (Mothertongue), English (Fluent), French (Fluent), German (Basics)

    Teaching Activities
    2008 - 2011 Training on Analysis, Statistics and Algebra for Physics, Chemistry, Computer Sci-
    ences and Economy students.

    Publications
    1 L. Biancofiore, L. Brandt & T. A. Zaki, Stability of polymer synthetic wakes, J. Fluid
    Mech., (preprint), 2014.
    2 L. Biancofiore, F. Gallaire & E. Heifetz, Interaction between counterpropagating
    Rossby waves and capillary waves in planar jets and wakes, Phys. Fluids,
    (preprint), 2014.
    3 L. Biancofiore, F. Gallaire, P. Laure & E. Hachem, Direct numerical simulations of
    two-phase immiscible wakes, Fluid Dyn. Res., (accepted), February 2014.
    4 L. Biancofiore, Crossover between two- and three-dimensional turbulence in spa-
    tial mixing layers, J. Fluid Mech., 745, 164-179, 2014.
    5 L. Biancofiore & F. Gallaire, Counterpropagating Rossby waves in confined plane
    wakes. Phys. Fluids , 24, 074102, 2012.
    6 L. Biancofiore, F. Gallaire & R. Pasquetti, Influence of confinement on obstacle-
    free turbulent wakes. Comp.& Fluids, 58, 27-44, 2012.
    7 L. Biancofiore, F. Gallaire & R. Pasquetti, Influence of confinement on a two-
    dimensional wake. J. Fluid Mech., 688, 297-320, 2011.
    8 L. Biancofiore, F. Gallaire & R. Pasquetti, Large eddy simulations of confined tur-
    bulent wake flows, J. Phys. Conf. Ser., 318, 042044, 2011.
    9 L. Biancofiore & F. Gallaire, The influence of shear layer thickness on the stability
    of confined two-dimensional wakes. Phys. Fluids 23, 034103, 2011
    10 L. Biancofiore & F. Gallaire, The influence of confinement on temporal stability of
    plane jets and wakes, Phys. Fluids 22, 014106, 2010.

    Conferences
    1 L. Biancofiore, F. Gallaire, P. Laure & E. Hachem, Direct numerical simulations of
    two-phase immiscible wakes, 5th International Symposium, Bifurcations and Insta-
    bilities in Fluid Dynamics, 8-11 July, 2013, Haifa, Israel.
    2 L. Biancofiore, F. Gallaire & P. Laure, Interaction between counterpropagating
    Rossby and capillary waves in planar jets and wakes, 65th Annual Meeting of
    APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, 18-20 November, 2012, San Diego, CA, USA.
    3 L. Biancofiore & S. Musacchio, Growth in 2D and 3D turbulent mixing layers, 9th
    Euromech Fluid Mechanics Conference 2012, Rome, Italy.
    4 L. Biancofiore, F. Gallaire & R. Pasquetti, Large eddy-simulations of confined tur-
    bulent wake flows, 13th European Turbulence Conference, 12 - 15 September 2011,
    Warsaw, Poland.
    5 L. Biancofiore, F. Gallaire & R. Pasquetti, The influence of shear layer thickness in
    the stability of confined 2D wakes, 63rd Annual Meeting of APS Division of Fluid
    Dynamics, 21-23 November, 2010, Long Beach, CA, USA.

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    6 L. Biancofiore, F. Gallaire & R. Pasquetti, Stability of confined two-dimensional
    wakes by means of DNS, 8th Euromech Fluid Mechanics Conference 2010, Bad
    Reichenhall, Germany.
    7 L. Biancofiore, F. Gallaire & R. Pasquetti, Influence du confinement sur un sillage
    bidimensionnel, XIX Congrès Français de Mécanique 2009, Marseille.

    Honours and awards


    2012 Marie Curie IntraEuropean Fellowship 2012 Fellowship
    2012 Göran Gustafsson Postdoctoral Fellowship in Science

    Computational skills
    Fortran, C++, Matlab, OpenMPI, Unix, Gnuplot, TecPlot, Visit, Paraview

    Scientific interests
    Jets/wakes stability, non-Newtonian fluids, local stability analysis, direct numerical
    simulation (DNS), large eddy simulation (LES), turbulence, multi-phase flows, capil-
    larity.

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