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Prof. Fernando Porte-Agel
[email protected]
Wind Engineering and Renewable Energy Laboratory
Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
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Fernando
Porté-Agel is professor and director of the Wind
Engineering and Renewable Energy Laboratory at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
in Switzerland. He completed his engineering degree at the Universidad Politécnica
de Cataluña (Spain) in 1992,
followed by a Master of Science in from the Institute of Hydraulic Engineering
at UNESCO-IHE in Delft (Netherlands) in 1995. He then moved on to the Johns
Hopkins University to earn a PhD in Environmental Engineering in 2000. After
obtaining his PhD, he joined the faculty of the University of Minnesota in 2000
and was there as Assistant and Associate professor until January of 2010, when
he moved to EPFL. His research interests are in environmental fluid dynamics,
with emphasis on wind energy. He is member of the editorial board of the
journal Boundary-Layer Meteorology
and associate editor of the Journal of
Turbulence.
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Assoc. Prof. Sridhar Idapalapati
[email protected]
Acting Head -
Division of Manufacturing Engineering
Nanyang Technological University |
Dr. IDAPALAPATI
Sridhar is
currently an Associate Professor and Head of the Manufacturing Division in the
School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the Nanyang Technological
University (NTU), Singapore. He is a Cambridge Nehru Scholar and holds
a Ph.D. in mechanics of solids from the University of Cambridge
and a First-class Honours (with
Distinction) degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Jawaharlal Nehru
Technological University (JNTU), India. He also holds a Masters
of Technology degree from Indian
Institute of Technology, (IIT) Kanpur,
India
specializing in mechanics of solids & design. Prior to joining NTU, Dr. I.
Sridhar worked as a Visiting Scientist at National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA. Dr Idapalapati’s research
interests include design with sandwich structures, composite materials, powder
consolidation, biomaterials and hard-tissue implants and recently he started
working on wind energy research.