SPEAKERS
Plenary Speakers
Prof. Sandrine Aubrun joined Ecole Centrale de Nantes (France) in 2017, at the Laboratory of Research on Hydrodynamics, Energetics and Atmospheric Environment (LHEEA). Her research activities are focused on aerodynamics for wind energy applications, interactions between atmospheric flows and fixed or floating turbines, offshore and onshore wind resource assessment, etc. She is currently coordinator of the project ORACLE (Offshore renewable energy ReseArch Center of excelLencE) dedicated to strengthen the multidisciplinary research for offshore renewable energies in Nantes academic institutions.
She was president of European Academy of Wind Energy for two years (2015-2017).
She was associate professor at Université d’Orléans in Laboratoire PRISME from 2004 to 2017 and developed research activities on active flow control, atmospheric dispersion and aerodynamics for wind energy applications.
She received her PhD degree in fluid mechanics from Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse in France in 1998. She had a 2-year post doc position in ONERA (1998-2000) working on aeronautical applications and then a 4-year post-doc position (2000-2004) at the Meteorological Institute in Hamburg University in Germany, where she was working on atmospheric dispersion.
Johan Meyers is a full professor at the department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leuven, Belgium. He is a renowned expert in the modeling of the atmospheric boundary layer, with main application area the physics of wind-farm atmosphere interactions. JM is involved in various European and national projects on wind energy. Among others he obtained the ERC grant (consolidator) ActiveWindFarms in 2012, and in 2025 he was granted the ERC-ADG REALTOWIND on optimal control of wind-farm atmosphere interaction. JM served as vice president (2017-2019) and president (2019-2021) of the European Academy of Wind Energy. He currently also serves as an associate editor for Wind Energy Science, and is the chair (together with colleagues from VUB and UGent) of the Torque2026 conference in Bruges, Belgium (https://torque2026.eu/)
Raúl Bayoán Cal is the Daimler Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering at Portland State University; a faculty member since 2010. He received his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2006. During 2006 to 2009, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins University. His area of research is focused on understanding fluid flow phenomena as it relates to physical systems such as turbulence with emphasis placed on physics related of wall-bounded, free-shear and multi-phase flows as well as wind/solar energy, and capillary microfluidics with interests in both terrestrial and space applications.
Confirmed Invited Speakers
- Majid Bastankhah, Durham University
- Sylvain Laizet, Imperial College London
- Kostas Steiros, Imperial College London
- Jiangang Chen, Northwestern Polytechnical University
- Nicolas Mazellier, University of Orléans
- Dennice Gayme, Johns Hopkins University
- Stefano Leonardi, University of Texas at Dallas
- Luoqin Liu, University of Science and Technology of China
- Fotis Sotiropoulos, Penn State University
- Matias Avila, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
- Esteban Ferrer, ETSIAE Madrid Polytechnic University
- Martin Obligado, Centrale Lille Institute
- Jan-Willem van Wingerden, TU Delft
- Stefan Ivanell, Uppsala University
- Claudia Brunner, University of Göttingen
- Jason Hearst, Norwegian University of Technology
- Michael Howland, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Alessandro Bianchini, University of Florence
- Dominic von Terzi, TU Delft
- Bharath Ganapathisubramani, University of Southampton