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We want to do great things while fostering a team culture of mentorship and collaboration, promote critical and independent thinking, and value scientific integrity.

We have a lot of fun doing what we do, and Columbia University offers a unique and stimulating environment for both professional and personal growth.

We are also constantly on the lookout for talented and driven students across a range of fields – reach out to explore existing opportunities!

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Our Group

  • Marco G. Giometto

    Marco G. Giometto

    CEEM Assistant Professor, Amazon Visiting Academic

    mg3929@columbia.edu

    Marco G. Giometto

    CEEM Assistant Professor, Amazon Visiting Academic

    mg3929@columbia.edu

    Marco is Assistant Professor in the CEEM Department at Columbia University and an Amazon Visiting Academic. He has received several recognitions for scientific work, including the NSF CAREER Award, the Army Research Office YIP Award, the Office of Naval Research YIP Award, and the EDME Award for Best Thesis in Mechanics at EFPL.

    He received his PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Braunschweig and Florence Universities (2014), and a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (2016). Prior to joining Columbia, he held postdoctoral positions at the University of British Columbia and at the Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford University.

  • Manuel F. Schmid

    Manuel F. Schmid

    Postdoctoral Scholar

    mfs2173@columbia.edu

    Manuel F. Schmid

    Postdoctoral Scholar

    mfs2173@columbia.edu

    BS and MS in Environmental Sciences & Engineering from EPF Lausanne, PhD from the University of British Columbia, Canada. Research areas: Urban canopy flows, computational methods.

  • Jaeyoung Jung

    Jaeyoung Jung

    Postdoctoral Scholar

    jj3326@columbia.edu

    Jaeyoung Jung

    Postdoctoral Scholar

    jj3326@columbia.edu

    BS and PhD in Civil & Environmental Engineering from Seoul National University, South Korea. Research areas: Multi-scale mechanics, canopy flows, and machine learning.

  • Kytt MacManus

    Kytt MacManus

    Applied Science Lead

    km2505@columbia.edu

    Kytt MacManus

    Applied Science Lead

    km2505@columbia.edu

    BA in Political Science from Northeastern University, MS in Environmental Science and Policy from Bard Center for Environmental Policy. Research area: Air Quality, Urban Climate, Decision Support, Open Science.

  • Gurpreet S. Hora

    Gurpreet S. Hora

    PhD Student

    gh2546@columbia.edu

    Gurpreet S. Hora

    PhD Student

    gh2546@columbia.edu

    BTech in Civil Engineering from IIT Bombay and MS in Civil & Environmental Engineering from University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Research area: AI for turbulent flows.

  • Atharva S. Sathe

    Atharva S. Sathe

    PhD Student

    as6481@columbia.edu

    Atharva S. Sathe

    PhD Student

    as6481@columbia.edu

    BTech and MTech in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Bombay. Research area: Turbulence modeling for urban canopy flow.

  • Pawan N. Chandiramani

    Pawan N. Chandiramani

    PhD Student

    pnc2119@columbia.edu

    Pawan N. Chandiramani

    PhD Student

    pnc2119@columbia.edu

    BTech and MTech in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Kharagpur. Research area: Boundary-layer flow in complex terrain.

  • Kishore R. Sathia

    Kishore R. Sathia

    PhD Student

    krs2199@columbia.edu

    Kishore R. Sathia

    PhD Student

    krs2199@columbia.edu

    BTech in Mechanical Engineering and MTech in Computational Engineering from IIT Madras. Research area: Atmospheric boundary-layer transport and turbulence.

  • Amos Fishman-Resheff

    Amos Fishman-Resheff

    Senior Laboratory Engineer

    af3453@columbia.edu

    Amos Fishman-Resheff

    Senior Laboratory Engineer

    af3453@columbia.edu

    BS in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Research area: Field deployment lead and drone-based surveying.

  • Linh Thuy Pham

    Linh Thuy Pham

    Part-Time Project Manager

    linhpham206@gmail.com

    Linh Thuy Pham

    Part-Time Project Manager

    linhpham206@gmail.com

    BS in Economics from University of Minnesota and MS in Economics from the University of British Columbia, Canada. Responsibilities: Supports research and proposal-preparation activities.

  • Rushil Samir Patel

    Rushil Samir Patel

    Master Student

    rp3268@columbia.edu

    Rushil Samir Patel

    Master Student

    rp3268@columbia.edu

    MS in Engineering Mechanics from Columbia University. BTech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Jodhpur. Research area: Air-sea interaction, data-driven methods.

  • Kristina Kobishchanova

    Kristina Kobishchanova

    Undergraduate Student

    kk3601@columbia.edu

    Kristina Kobishchanova

    Undergraduate Student

    kk3601@columbia.edu

    BS student at Columbia University, Mechanical Engineering. Research area: Field deployment support and drone-based surveying.

  • Bethany Duncan

    Bethany Duncan

    Undergraduate Student

    bd2660@columbia.edu

    Bethany Duncan

    Undergraduate Student

    bd2660@columbia.edu

    BS student at Columbia University, Applied Mathematics. Research area: Field deployment support.

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Joining Our Group

PhD students: Please apply for a PhD position in Engineering Mechanics via our graduate admission program and indicate Marco Giometto as the faculty member of interest.

BS or MS students at Columbia interested in joining our group to carry out independent research: Feel free to reach out to explore existing opportunities. We are constantly looking for motivated students from SEAS and other schools to support ongoing research projects. You are expected to have taken standard math and physics courses, fluid mechanics, and to have a basic understanding of numerical methods and programming.

Postdoc candidates: Please send your CV along with a research statement and two reference papers. Openings for postdocs are dependent on funding constraints. Please also consider applying for either of these scholarships: Earth Institute Postdoctoral Research Program, DSI Postdoctoral Fellowship, NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship, Ford Foundation Fellowship Program, National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship, L’OREAL USA for Women in Science Fellowship.

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Alumni

  • Jérémie Janin – Postdoctoral Scholar, 2023-2025. First position after EFPL: Postdoctoral Researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
  • Shiv Kampani – BS student, 2022-2024.
  • Anna Zueva – BS student, 2024.
  • Mari Chikaarashi – BS student, 2024.
  • Ana Mateo-Jerez – BS student, 2024.
  • Emily Shang – BS student, 2024.
  • Kyle Chen – BS student, 2024.
  • Sky Mingyang Sun – BS student, 2024.
  • Sofia Farina – visiting PhD student, University of Trento, 2022-2023.
  • Kealan Hennessy – MS student, 2022-2023.
  • Pierce Rubenstein – BS student, 2023.
  • Doyup Kwon – BS student, 2023.
  • Beatrice Giacomini – PhD student, 2023. First position after EFPL: Virtu Financial Operating LLC.
  • Justin Walkup – BS student, 2022.
  • Hayato Takai – BS student, 2022.
  • Weiyi Li – Postdoctoral Scholar, 2024. First position after EFPL: Summit Security Group.
  • Hongshuo Yang – MS student, 2021-2023.
  • Kianoosh Yousefi – Assistant Research Scientist, 2021-2022. First position after EFPL: Assistant Professor at UT Dallas. Website
  • Andrei Coman – BS student, 2022.
  • Kiran Sreenivasa – MS student, 2022.
  • Zejian You – MS student, 2021-2022.
  • Arunit Maity – MS student, 2022.
  • Meera Mavroidis – BS student, 2022.
  • Onyinyechi Winner Obineche – BS student, 2021.
  • Daniel William Kolano – BS student, 2020–2021. First position after EFPL: Graduate student at Stanford University.
  • Christine Ye Shu Blackshaw – BS student, 2020–2021. First position after EFPL: PhD student at Princeton University.
  • Yicheng Li – MS student, 2019–2020. First position after EFPL: PhD student at University of California, Davis.
  • Tieliang Huang – MS student, 2019–2020. First position after EFPL: Engineer at China Construction Frist Group Construction & Development Co. Ltd.
  • Shinya Michael Kondo – BS student, 2018–2020. First position after EFPL: PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania. National Science Foundation Graduate Resesearch Fellowship Program awardee.
  • Mostafa Momen – Assistant Research Scientist, 2018-2019. First position after EFPL: Assistant Professor at the University of Houston. Website
  • Cheng Bi – MS student, 2018–2019. First position after EFPL: PhD student at National University of Singapore.
  • Jean Lac – visiting BS student, ENS Paris Saclay, France, 2020. First position after EFPL: PhD student at École Normale Supérieure Paris Saclay, France.
  • Sophie Abramian – visiting BS student, ENS Paris Saclay, France, 2018–2019. First position after EFPL: PhD student at Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace, France.
  • Annagiulia Bernardi – visiting MS student, Politecnico di Milano, Italy, 2018–2019. First position after EFPL: Project Manager presso Avalon Real Estate S.p.A.
  • Yuxi Guan – visiting PhD student, Wuhan University, China, 2018–2019.