News

October 2023 I was selected as a 2023 Rising Star in Mechanical Engineering and will be attending the workshop at the University of California, Berkeley
August 2023 Jessica Wilson's article on the aerodynamic interactions of drops on parallel fibres was published in Nature Physics
July 2023 Our two part paper on wave profiles and droplet generation by plunging breakers was published in the Journal of Fluid Mechanics (see part 1 and part 2)
May 2023 I attended the 29th Wind Waves in the Earth System held at Princeton University, where I gave a talk on the effects of surfactants on plunging breakers
May 2023 Our artwork on the effects of surfactants on plunging breakers was selected as a finalist by the Art of Science 2023 event hosted by Princeton University, see it here
May 2023 Our article on the Comparison between shadow imaging and in-line holography for measuring droplet size distribution was published in Experiments in Fluids
Jan. 2023 I attended the American Meteorological Society’s 23rd Conference on Air-Sea Interaction in Denver, Colorado
Nov. 2022 I attended the 74th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics in Indianapolis, IN where I gave a talk on the ''Transport of Inertial Droplets in a Turbulent Boundary Layer" and submitted a Gallery of Fluid Motion video, click here to see it
Aug. 2022: Dan Ruth's article on three-dimensional measurements of air entrainment and bubble transport was published in Geophysical Research Letters
June 2022: Our article on speed and acceleration of droplets generated by breaking wind-forced waves was published in Geophysical Research Letters
May 2022: I attended the 28th Wind Waves in the Earth System (WISE) meeting in Brest, France, where I gave a talk on the Speed and Acceleration of Droplets Generated by Breaking Wind-Forced Waves
Jan. 2022: Baptiste's article on the role of contamination in optimal droplet production was published in Geophysical Research Letters
Nov. 2021: I attended the 74th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics in Phoenix, Arizona. See talks I was involved with here, here, here, and here
May 2021: Baptiste, Dan, Baptiste, and I conducted a one month experimental campaign in the Air-Sea Interaction Laboratory in Lewes, Delaware. See a group photo here
Oct. 2020: I'm now a postdoc in Luc Deike's group at Princeton!
April 2020: I successfully defended my dissertation titled "The Dynamics of Plunging Breakers and the Generation of Spray Droplets"
Feb. 2020: I presented our recent work on spray generated by breaking waves at the Ocean Sciences 2020 meeting in San Diego, CA (link to abstract)
Nov. 2019: I presented our recent work on spray generation by breaking waves at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics (link to abstract)
July 2019: Our article on spray generation mechanisms by plunging breaking water waves was published in Geophysical Research Letters and was featured on the cover