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.