Dr. Christopher Vogel

Biography

Christopher graduated as a Senior Scholar with a BE(Hons) in Engineering Science from the University of Auckland in 2011. He joined the Environmental Fluid Mechanics research group at the University of Oxford, funded by the Oxford Martin School’s Programme Globalising Tidal Power Generation, completing his DPhil in 2015. Afterward, he served as a Post-doctoral Research Assistant in the group and was appointed as a Senior Research Associate in 2017. In 2021, Christopher was awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship, focusing on fluid mechanics challenges associated with scaling offshore renewable energy to meet net-zero transition demands. His research mainly revolves around fluid mechanics in offshore renewable energy, particularly wind and tidal stream energy, with specific interests in interfaces, spatial and temporal scale problems, rotor-scale aerodynamics, and turbine wake evolution. He collaborates with colleagues on energy storage and quantifying the impacts of wind energy droughts in Great Britain. Christopher employs various methods including analytical modeling, computational fluid dynamics simulations, and lab-scale experiments to address research challenges. Since 2017, he has been teaching on the undergraduate Engineering Science course, receiving departmental awards for excellence in teaching.

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