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Principal Investigator

David Saintillan

Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Ph.D. Stanford University, 2006
M.S. Stanford University, 2003
B.S. Ecole Polytechnique, 2001

Curriculum Vitae: [pdf]

dstn [at] ucsd [dot] edu

Short Bio:

Professor David Saintillan received a B.S. in Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique, France, in 2001, and an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 2003 and 2006. He then worked as a Junior Research Scientist at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences of New York University from 2006 to 2008, and as an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2008 to 2013. He joined the University of California San Diego in 2013, where he is a Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. He currently serves as a Member-at-Large on the Executive Committee of APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, and on the editorial boards of Physical Review Fluids and Physical Review X.

Honors and Awards:

  1. Invited Professor, Paris Sciences Chair, ESPCI, Paris, France, February 2019
  2. Fellow of the American Physical Society, 2018
  3. Invited Professor, Joliot Chair, ESPCI, Paris, France, July 2017
  4. Teacher of the Year, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, UCSD, 2014-2015
  5. Invited Professor, Joliot Chair, ESPCI, Paris, France, June 2015
  6. National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2012-2017
  7. UIUC List of Teachers Ranked as Excellent by their Students, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
  8. Invited Professor, Total-ESPCI ParisTech Chair, ESPCI, Paris, France, July 2012
  9. Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal in Mechanical Engineering, 2011
  10. Arnold O. Beckmann Research Award, UIUC Research Board, 2010
  11. Invited Lecturer, Aix-Marseille Universite, France, July 2008
  12. Andreas Acrivos Dissertation Award in Fluid Dynamics, American Physical Society, 2007
  13. Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2006-2008
  14. Gerald J. Lieberman Graduate Fellowship, 2005-2006
  15. Edgar N. Meakin Memorial Fellowship, 2001-2003
  16. Fondation de l'Ecole Polytechnique Scholarship, 2001

Recent News


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November 2021: The paper "Instability of a planar fluid interface under a tangential electric field in a stagnation point flow" by Firouznia, Miksis, Vlahovska and Saintillan appeared in Journal of Fluid Mechanics. Click here to download the article.

November 2021: The Saintillan Research Group attended the 74th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics in Phoenix, AZ.

November 2021: Congratulations to Achal Mahajan for successfully defending his Ph.D. dissertation entitled: "From nano to micro: activity-driven self-organization of interphase chromatin"!

October 2021: The paper "Electrohydrodynamic instabilities in freely suspended viscous films under normal electric fields" by Firouznia and Saintillan appeared in Physical Review Fluids. Click here to download the article.

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