FLUCOME 2025 Nakayama Award “In Appreciation of Lecturship” to Prof. Ramis Örlü
It is customary, for every edition of FLUCOME, to award the Nakayama Medal (in honour of Yasuki Nakayama, founder of FLUCOME) to an individual with exceptional contributions to the science of fluid control, measurement, and visualisation, “in Appreciation of Lectureship”.
The local organizing committee, and International and Honorary committees of FLUCOME have examined a list of proposed candidates and have decided to present the 2025 Nakayama award to Prof. Ramis Örlü, in recognition of his diverse, high-impact and rigorous contributions to the measurement of turbulent flows.
On this occasion, Prof. Örlü, is cordially invited to FLUCOME 2025, for the presentation of his award as well as to deliver a keynote lecture.
Ramis Örlü is a Professor of Fluid Mechanics at OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University in Norway. He earned an mechanical engineering degree (Dipl.-Ing.) in mechanical engineering from Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, in 2003, followed by a Ph.D. in engineering mechanics specializing in experimental fluid dynamics and turbulence at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, in 2009. In 2015, he was appointed docent in experimental fluid physics at KTH, where he has been a researcher since 2009 and continues to contribute part-time. Since 2017, he has also held an adjunct professorship at the University of Bologna, Italy. In 2023, he joined OsloMet as an associate professor in fluid mechanics and was promoted to full professor in 2024. Over the years, he has held fellowships and guest professorships in Germany and Turkey. His research focuses on fundamental aspects of turbulent flows, emphasizing skin-friction and drag reduction through passive and active control techniques. He utilizes large-scale wind tunnel facilities and integrates high-fidelity simulations to cross-validate experiments and computational results. In addition to his research, he is the Editor-in-Chief of Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, serves on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Flow, Turbulence and Combustion and Advances in Aerodynamics, and has co-edited the Progress in Turbulence series.
FLUCOME 2025 Young Researcher Award to Dr. Jacopo Serpieri
The FLUCOME 2025 organizing committee is pleased to announce that the Young Researcher Award is presented to Dr. Jacopo Serpieri, in recognition of his impactful contributions to the measurement and control of fluid flows. It is customary for the FLUCOME International Steering Committee and the Honorary Committee to present this award to an early-career researcher with outstanding and promising contributions to the science of fluid control, measurement, and visualisation.
Dr. Jacopo Serpieri studied Aerospace Engineering at the University of Naples “Federico II” while he funded, with a group of friends, an art gallery and social lab in one of the most difficult areas of his hometown. He then moved to TU Delft to pursue a PhD in fluid mechanics studying the instability mechanisms of swept wing boundary layers. Afterwards, he went working for about two years at ASML B.V. contributing to the design of the next-generation photolithography tools for the printing of integrated circuits. He then moved back to Academia, at the Institute of Fluid Mechanics of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. About two years later, he was appointed as Assistant Professor at the Politecnico di Torino, where he currently works in the Flow Control group.
His research focuses on the flow diagnostics and control of wall-bounded flows, whether transitional or turbulent, towards reducing the exerted drag. His methodology is mainly experimental, while using complementary numerical simulations and theoretical approaches. Through the years, he also got interested in the fields of aeroacoustics, propulsion, turbulence and jet flows.