Environmental Flow Physics Lab
People @ EFPL
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
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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.
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.
BS and PhD in Civil & Environmental Engineering from Seoul National University, South Korea. Research areas: Multi-scale mechanics, canopy flows, and machine learning.
BS and MS in Industrial Energy and Engineering from Ecole National Supérieure en Génie des Technologies Industrielles and PhD at IRSN and Aix-Marseille University. Research area: Particle dispersion in turbulent flows.
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.
BTech and MTech in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Bombay. Research area: Turbulence modeling for urban canopy flow.
BTech and MTech in Aerospace Engineering from IIT Kharagpur. Research area: Boundary-layer flow in complex terrain.
BTech in Mechanical Engineering and MTech in Computational Engineering from IIT Madras. Research area: Atmospheric boundary-layer transport and turbulence.
BS in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. Research area: Field deployment lead and drone-based surveying.
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.
MS in Engineering Mechanics from Columbia University. BTech in Mechanical Engineering from IIT Jodhpur. Research area: Air-sea interaction, data-driven methods.
BS student at Columbia University, Computer Science. Research area: Fluid flow visualization in virtual reality environments.
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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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- 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 – PhD student, 2023. Postdoctoral Scholar at EFPL.
- 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.