59th Graduation Ceremony
The 59th graduation ceremony of the Research Master in Fluid Dynamics took place at the von Karman Institute this 3th of July 2015.
The ceremony started with Dr. Jean Muylaert and its introductory remarks and report on the current academic year. This was followed by the speech of Professor Jean-Pierre Contzen, chairman of the VKI Board of Directors who congratulated the graduates on behalf of the VKI Board of Directors. Then Major General Albert Husniaux, on behalf of NATO’s Science and Technology Organization, stressed the importance of VKI for the NATO countries. Prof. Jean-Jacques Dordain, former Director General of the European Space Agency, made an inspiring speech addressed to the Graduates. His speech was followed by the congratulations of Mr. René Delcourt, chairman ad interim of the Federal Science Policy Office and represented by Mrs. Gisèle Roulleaux, member of the VKI Board of Directors.
The director had then the pleasure to announce that:
The Theodore von Karman Prize was attributed to two Graduates: Elissavet Boufidi with her project entitled: "Time-resolved velocity measurements in the wake of a low-pressure turbine blade, at low Reynolds and high Mach number" and Federico Bariselli with his project entitled: "Development of gas-surface interaction models for DSMC methods"
Fernando Miró Miró was awarded the Belgian Government Prize. His project was related to the numerical study of the stability of a hypersonic boundary layer in the presence of blowing.
The Prince Alexandre of Belgium Award for the Best Presentation given by princess Léa de Belgique was attributed to James Braun with a project on "Characterization of complex multi-physics flow in rotating detonation engines".
The Excellence in Experimental Research has been given to Charline Fouchier, while the Excellence in Numerical Research has been given to Valeria Andreoli.
We would like to congratulate the Graduates who received their diplomas:
- with honours: Giacomo Alessi, Valeria Andreoli, Federico Bariselli, Fabio Bigoni, Elissavet Boufidi, James Braun, Bogdan Cezar Cernat, Claudia Esposito, Marco Ferrarotti, Nicolas Habotte, Zdenek Ilich, Fernando Miró Miró, Ernesto Pedraza-Valle, Marco Virgilio
- João Luís Aguiar Oliveira Rosa, Adelchi Jacques Asta, Artur João Caevalho Batista Soares de Figueiredo, Nicolas Coquelet, Giunio De Luca, Gaylord Durand, Ümran Düzel, Charline Fouchier, Maria Gkolia, Christos Gkoudesnes, Taygun Recept Güngör, Nadège Henault, Vigfús Arnar Jósefsson, Felix Kauth, Dávid Kóti, Günther March, Jean-Baptiste Parrain, Jorge Ramos Mateos, Alessio Scheri, Tümcan Sen, Stefan Mugur Simionescu, Cem Tekin, Vincent Ton
After the announcement of the special prizes and the distribution of the diploma, Prof. Mario Carbonaro, vice-president for Europe of the VKI Alumni Association addressed to the Graduates and attributed the Best Collaboration Award to Alessio Scheri. His speech was followed by the presentation by Herman Deconinck, dean of the VKI faculty, of the doctoral members who have completed their theses during this academic year. His presentation has been followed by the attribution of the Best PhD presentation award to Helber Bernd By Prof. Mario Carbonaro.
Finally, Mr. Jacques Asta and Mr. James Braun, members of the Research Master program, gave a vote of thanks to the guests.
 Dr. Jean-Pierre Contzen and Mrs. Elissavet Boufidi |
 Dr. Jean-Pierre Contzen and Mr. Federico Bariselli |
 Mrs. Gisèle Roulleaux on behalf of René Delcourt from BELSPO and Mr. Fernando Miró Miró |
 Princess Léa de Belgique and Mr. James Braun |
 Dr. Jean Muylaert and Mrs. Charline Fouchier |
 Dr. Jean Muylaert and Mrs. Valeria Andreoli |
 Prof. Mario Carbonaro and Mr. Alessio Scheri |
 Prof. Mario Carbonaro and Mr. Bernd Helber |