People
Principal Investigator
Nick Ouellette (CV) is a Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 2002 with majors in Physics and Computer Science, and earned his Ph.D. (in Physics) in 2006 from Cornell University, where he worked with Eberhard Bodenschatz. He held postdoctoral positions at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in 2006 (with Eberhard Bodenschatz) and in the Physics Department at Haverford College from 2007-2008 (with Jerry Gollub). Before coming to Stanford, he spent seven years on the faculty in Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science at Yale University. Ouellette is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, and has broad research interests in fluid mechanics and nonlinear physics. He teaches courses in both of these areas, and has won teaching awards at both Stanford and Yale.
Graduate Students
Erika MacDonald is a graduate student in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University. She graduated from Harvey Mudd College in 2021 with a B.S. in General Engineering. Her current research focuses on the settling of hot particles.
Theodore MacMillan is a graduate student in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 2021 with a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering. His research involves leveraging graph-based approaches to better understand a variety of nonlinear systems, but especially environmental flows like those found in clouds and in the ocean.
Sophie Bodek is a graduate student in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University. She graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2018 with a B.A. in Earth Sciences, then earned a M.S. in Geology from the University of Delaware in 2020. Her current research focuses on sediment transport, and she is broadly interested in connecting grain-scale sediment processes to landscape evolution.
Maya Eley is a graduate student in Civil and Environmental Engineering at Stanford University. She graduated with a Bachelor of Civil Engineering from the University of Delaware in 2022. She is interested in the mechanisms behind large-scale sediment transport and erosion, and her current work is focused on sediment ripple formation and propagation in the presence of buried obstacles.
Alumni
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Patricia Yang (postdoc), Assistant Professor of Power Mechanical Engineering at National Tsing Hua University.
Sarah Eagleman (postdoc), Director of Clinical Studies, Octave Bioscience.
Hangjian Ling (postdoc), Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth.
Kasper van der Vaart (postdoc).
Michael Sinhuber (postdoc), University of Oldenburg.
Abe Clark (postdoc), Associate Professor of Physics at the Naval Postgraduate School.
Charlie Hogg (postdoc), data scientist at Aruba.
Rui Ni (postdoc), Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at Johns Hopkins University.
James Puckett (postdoc), Sr. Principal Systems Engineer, Northrop Grumman.
Doug Kelley (postdoc), Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Rochester.
Jennifer Yin (Ph.D. 2023, Stanford), Carbon Removal Scientist at Isometric.
Yenchia Feng (Ph.D. 2023, Stanford).
Laura Clark Sunberg (Ph.D. 2023, Stanford), postdoc at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Rohan Aras (Ph.D. 2022, Stanford), Data Scientist at the Center for Advanced Transportation Technology Laboratory.
Saksham Gakhar (Ph.D. 2022, Stanford), Research Data Scientist at Meta.
Marios Galanis (Ph.D. 2022, Stanford), Data Scientist at Meta.
Yuki Tanimoto (Ph.D. 2021, Stanford), Associate at McKinsey & Company.
Joseph Ballouz (Ph.D. 2020, Stanford), Senior Civil Engineer at Interfield Group.
Lei Fang (Ph.D. 2020, Stanford), Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Pittsburgh.
Michelle DiBenedetto (Ph.D. 2019, Stanford), Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Washington.
J.C. Salevan (Ph.D. 2018, Yale), research analyst at Yale's Office of Institutional Research.
Alexandre de Chaumont Quitry (Ph.D. 2016, Yale), research engineer at Visby.
Yang Liao (Ph.D. 2015, Yale), Assistant Scientist in Marine Geology and Geophysics at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution.
Nidhi Khurana (Ph.D. 2013, Yale), researcher at the Centers for Disease Control Global HIV program.
Manisha Patel (B.S. 2019, Stanford), graduate school in Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Pearson Miller (B.S. 2014, Yale), graduate school in Physics at MIT.
Ben Green (B.S. 2014, Yale), Assistant Professor, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, University of Michigan.
Jerry Wang (B.S. 2013, Yale; McCrosky Prize winner), Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University.
Courtney Engle (B.S. 2012, Yale), in industry.
Kevin Shen (B.S. 2011, Yale), graduate school in Chemical Engineering at Caltech.
Sophia Merrifield (B.S. 2010, Yale; Lichty & Waters Prize winner), Assistant Researcher in Physical Oceanography at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.