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Fernando Porté-Agel is a Full Professor and Director of the Wind Engineering Renewable Energy Laboratory at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). With a Ph.D. in Environmental Engineering from Johns Hopkins University, his research is prominent in the fields of Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Turbulence, and Computational Fluid Dynamics. He has made significant contributions to understanding atmospheric boundary layers and their impact on wind energy processes. Porté-Agel's expertise encompasses large-eddy simulations and their application in wind energy and renewable resources. His professional journey includes academic positions at the University of Minnesota, where he was recognized with multiple awards, including the McKnight Presidential Fellow and NASA Young Investigator Award. Porté-Agel is actively engaged in teaching and supervising doctoral students in Environmental Sciences and Engineering.
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne • Lausanne, Switzerland
Full Professor in the School of Architecture, Civil Environmental Engineering.
University of Minnesota • Minneapolis, MN, USA
Associate Professor in the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory and Department of Civil Engineering.
University of Minnesota • Minneapolis, MN, USA
Assistant Professor in the St. Anthony Falls Laboratory.
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