Honorary Professor with consulting activities
Turbomachinery and Propulsion Department
von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics
Waterloosesteenweg 72
1640 Sint-Genesius-Rode
Phone: +32 2 359 96 08
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Dipl. Ing., Technische Hochschule Hannover, Germany
Biography
Biography
Education
Dipl. Ing. Technische Hochschule, Hannover, Germany, Faculty of Applied Mechanics 1965
Diploma Course, von Karman Institute, Turbomachinery Department, 1966
Career
1988-2004: Maître de Conférences at Université Libre de Bruxelles: Course on “Turbomachines”
2003-present: Honorary Professor von Karman Institute, with teaching and consulting activities
1998-2003: Full Professor and Head of Turbomachinery Department at von Karman Institute
1983-1987:Visiting Professor at Université Libre de Bruxelles: Course on “Turbomachines”
1982-2003: Professor von Karman Institute
1976-1982: Associate Professor von Karman Institute
1970-1976: Assistant Professor von Karman Institute
1966-1970: Research Assistant von Karman Institute
Awards and memberships
AGARD Working Group on “ Modern Methods of Testing Rotating Components of Turbomachines (Instrumentation), 1975
AGARD Working Group on “Advanced Methods for Cascade Testing”, (1990-1992)
AGARD AVT Task Group “ MEMS Applications for Land, See and Air Vehicles (2000- 2003)
Services to society
Evaluations
Project Evaluator for NRC, Canada (1993, 1996); MURST, Italy (1998 , 2000): FCAR, Canada (2001); GACR, Czech Republic (1999, 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2006)); National Science Foundation, USA (1999); Westinghouse, USA (1997); CNES, France (1997, 2001
Organizer and chairman of sessions on:
- European Symposia on Measurement Techniques (16 since 1971)
- ASME Gas Turbine Conference sessions(4 since 1973)
- Turbomachinery Conference of Institution of Mechanical Engineers, London (1991)
- Euromech Conference on “Internal High Speed Flows with Viscous Inviscid Interaction”, Prague (1993)
- Eight European Turbomachinery Conferences (2009)
- Chairman of Committee for European Turbomachinery Conference from 2001 to 2005
- Paper Review Chairman for second (1997) and third (1999) European Turbomachinery Conference
Member of Promotion Committees/Request of Recommendation Letters for Promotions
University of Oxford; Université de Science et Technology Lille; Cambridge University; University of Durham; KTH Stockholm, Sweden; University of Limerick, Ireland
Teaching
Teaching
Formal courses
Advanced course on Turbines (part of 4.5 ECTS)
Lecturer at special courses
1-Week Turbomachinery Course at Westinghouse, Marine Div. , Sunnyvale, Cal. (1983)
Professore a Contratto del corso di “Projetto di paletture”, University of Genoa (1986)
NATO Advanced Study Institute, Cesme, Turkey (1984)
Lecturer at Turbomachinery Course at Concepts ETI,Vermont, USA (1984)
Invited lecturer
Seminars at : RWTH Aachen, University of Duisburg, Bundeswehrhochschule München, ETH Zürich, University of Cincinnati, Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Air Force Academy (Colorado), Siemens-Westinghouse in Orlando, Siemens in Muehlheim
Invited Lecturer at ATI Conference, Italy (2000)
Invite d lecture at ISROMAC 12, Honolulu 2007