People
Postdocs
Dr. Davide Selvatici
Large Eddy Simulation of off-shore wind farms
Postdoc since February 2026. PhD completed February 2026 – “Clouds, Atmospheric Turbulence and their Interaction with Wind Farms”
Email: d.selvatici@utwente.nl
PhD students
MSc Manideep Pasupula
Effect of diurnal changes on wind farm performance
Current PhD student
Email: manideep.pasupula@utwente.nl
MSc Giacomo Tanduo
Large Eddy Simulation of off-shore wind farms
Current PhD student
Email: g.tanduo@utwente.nl
MSc Dong Chen
Coupling wind farm simulations to weather models
Current PhD student
Email: dong.chen@utwente.nl
MSc Joppe Kleinhout
Offshore wind farm dynamics
Current PhD student
Alumni
Postdocs
Dr. Lucas Franceschini
Now Research Engineer at IFP Energies nouvelles
Postdoc: January 2022 – April 2023
Dr. Luoqin Liu
Now assistant professor at USTC
Wind farms in complex terrain
Postdoc: June 2018 – November 2021
Dr. Guiquan Wang
Now Researcher at IMEC (co-advised with Prof. Detlef Lohse and Prof. Roberto Verzicco)
Turbulent Rayleigh–Bénard convection in spherical coordinates
Postdoc: November 2019 – December 2021
Dr. Ariane Emmanuelli
Now assistant professor at École Centrale de Lyon
Wind turbine modeling and noise propagation
Postdoc: November 2020 – August 2021
Dr. Mengqi Zhang
Now assistant professor at National University of Singapore
Flow structures and reduced order modeling of wind farm flows
Postdoc: September 2016 – January 2018
Dr. Yantao Yang
Now associate professor at Peking University, China
Direct numerical simulation of rotating convection
Postdoc: May 2013 – April 2017
PhD students
Dr. Guru Sreevanshu Yerragolam
Co-advised with Prof. Detlef Lohse and Prof. Roberto Verzicco
Sheared turbulent thermal convection
PhD graduated February 2024 – “Sheared thermal convection”
Dr. Robert Hartmann
Co-advised with Prof. Detlef Lohse and Prof. Roberto Verzicco
Rotating convection
PhD graduated October 2023 – “Rotation and confinement in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection”
Dr. Anja Stieren
Now Researcher at Pondera
Interaction between large scale wind farms
PhD graduated September 2022 – “Large-eddy simulations of the interaction between wind farms and mesoscale effects”
Dr. Martin Assen
Co-advised with Prof. Detlef Lohse and Prof. Roberto Verzicco
Numerical simulation of bubbles, drops and particles in turbulence
PhD graduated September 2022 – “Wake-induced dynamics of anisotropic particles in homogeneous and shear flows”
Dr. Jessica Strickland
Now Researcher at KNMI
Analytical modelling and Large Eddy Simulation of large-scale wind farms
PhD graduated December 2021 – “Modeling Wakes and Blockage in Large-scale Wind Farms”
Dr. Srinidhi Nagarada Gadde
Now Assistant Professor at ITC, University of Twente
Effect of atmospheric stability on wind farm performance
PhD graduated May 2021 – “Large eddy simulations of stratified atmospheric boundary layers and wind farms”
Dr. Pieter Berghout
Now Researcher at ASML (co-advised with Prof. Detlef Lohse and Prof. Roberto Verzicco)
Roughness and spirals in Taylor-Couette flow
PhD graduated January 2021 – “Wall-bounded turbulence with streamwise curvature”
Dr. Alexander Blass
Now Project Manager bei NEURA Robotics (co-advised with Prof. Detlef Lohse and Prof. Roberto Verzicco)
Sheared convection and large scale structures in Rayleigh-Bénard Turbulence
PhD graduated September 2020 – “Sheared Rayleigh-Bénard Turbulence”
Dr. Jens Kasper
Interaction between large scale wind farms
PhD graduated September 2025; postdoc August 2025 – January 2026 – “Large-scale Interactions between Wind Farms and the Atmosphere”
Dr. Xiaojue Zhu
Now Max Planck group leader in Göttingen, Germany
Roughness in Taylor-Couette flow, PhD/Postdoc
PhD graduated February 2018 (cum laude); postdoc February – December 2018 – “Taylor-Couette and Rayleigh-Bénard turbulence: the role of the boundaries”
Dr. Tony Martinez
Now Researcher IV – Mechanical Engineering at NREL, USA (co-advised with Prof. Dennice Gayme and Prof. Charles Meneveau)
Wind-turbine modeling, PhD
PhD from Johns Hopkins University, 2017 (overlapped with Richard Stevens' own postdoc there) – “Large Eddy Simulations and Theoretical Analysis of Wind Turbine Aerodynamics Using an Actuator Line Model”
Dr. Rodolfo Ostilla Mónico
Now assistant professor at Universidad de Cádiz, Spain
Direct numerical simulations of turbulent Taylor-Couette, PhD
PhD graduated February 2015 – “Highly turbulent Taylor-Couette flow: direct numerical simulations”
Dr. Erwin van der Poel
Now operational analyst at Thales, Netherlands (co-advised with Prof. Detlef Lohse and Prof. Roberto Verzicco)
Connecting flow structures and heat flux in Rayleigh-Bénard convection, PhD
PhD graduated July 2015 – “Structures, boundary layers and plumes in turbulent Rayleigh-Bénard convection”
Dr. Yang Liu
Large-eddy Simulation of wind farms
PhD graduated December 2025 – “Dynamic wind and wake effects in wind farms: Simulations and modeling”