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As of 1st of March 2016, Marc Avila holds the Chair in Fluid Mechanics at the Faculty of Production Engineering – Mechanical Engineering & Process Engineering – of the University of Bremen. He succeeds Hans Rath who had held the Chair for 31 years and died unexpectedly in 2012. By taking over the professorship for fluid mechanics he is also appointed head of the ZARM, a position previously filled by Claus Lämmerzahl, who had acted as Executive Director for the last three years.
Marc Avila comes from the small village La Selva del Camp (south of Barcelona) in Spain. Together with his family he moved to Bremen in November last year. Following his parental leave the 34-year-old will become one of the youngest directors of a scientific institute at the University of Bremen. “It is an honor for me to become head of the ZARM, a distinguished research institute of international renown. The interdisciplinary structure of the ZARM, along with the broad range of research areas and the relaxed atmosphere in the Faculty of Production Engineering, were decisive factors for me. The dynamics of fluid flows plays a key role not only in space technology but also in other core research areas at the University of Bremen such as material sciences and oceanic processes. I am therefore looking forward to new opportunities for cooperation” says Avila who previously was professor for Simulation of Nano and Microflows at the Institute of Fluid Mechanics of the “Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg”.
Marc Avila studied Mathematics at the “Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona” and the University of Glasgow. From 2005 to 2008 he worked on his PhD at the Institute for Applied Physics of the “Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya” in Barcelona. Back then he decided on an international scientific career and spent half of his PhD time as a research scholar at the Arizona State University. Subsequently, he held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen before he joined the Engineering Faculty of the “Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg” as professor in 2011.
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