Biography

FERNANDO PORTÉ AGEL
 Professor
 Director, Wind Engineering and Renewable Energy Laboratory (WIRE) 
 School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC) 
 École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
 e-mail: fernando.porte-agel@epfl.ch
 
 RESEARCH INTERESTS
 Environmental fluid mechanics. Computational fluid dynamics. Atmospheric boundary layers. Turbulence. Large-eddy simulation. Wind energy. Wind engineering. Renewable energy.
 
 EDUCATION
 Ph.D. 1999 Johns Hopkins University, Environmental Engineering 
 M.Sc. 1995 Hydrologic Engineering, IHE - Delft, The Netherlands
 B.S. 1992 Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña, Spain
 
 ACADEMIC POSITIONS
 2010-present: Full Professor, School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
 2005-2009: Associate Professor, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory and Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA 
 2000-2005: Assistant Professor, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
 
 AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
 McKnight Presidential Fellow (2006-2009), University of Minnesota, USA
 McKnight Land-Grant Professorship (2003-2005), University of Minnesota, USA
 NASA Young Investigator Award (2001-2004), USA
 NSF CAREER Award (2001-2006), (Division of Earth Sciences – Hydrological Sciences), USA
 Outstanding Student Paper Award: Hydrology Section, Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union; San Francisco, 1998.
 Research Award (1995-1997): “La Caixa” fellowship program; Barcelona, Spain.
 Research Award (1993-1995): Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs fellowship.
 Research Award (1990-1993): Spanish Civil Engineering Association.