Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz
Associate Professor
Education
PhD, Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University
MS, Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University
MSc, Applied Mathematics, Imperial College London
BEng, Aerospace Engineering, University of Southampton
Awards
2021 CAREER Award, National Science Foundation
2018 Northrop Grumman Teaching Award
2017 Gallery of Fluid Motion Winner, American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics
2017 Invited Speaker, Annual Meeting of the American Society for Gravitational and Space Research
2017 Regents Junior Faculty Fellowship
2013 Keynote Speaker, IUTAM Symposium on Vortex Dynamics, Fukuoka, Japan
2011 Andreas Acrivos Award, American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics
2007 Bolgiano Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, Cornell University
2004 Cornell Graduate Fellowship
2003 CERN Summer Studentship
2003 Royal Aeronautical Society Prize for highest first-class degree
2003 James Graham Prize for best experimental project in the School of Engineering Sciences
Contact Information
Email: fegiz [at] engineering [dot] ucsb [dot] edu
Website: Department Webpage
Short Bio
Paolo Luzzatto-Fegiz graduated with a BEng in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Southampton. After a summer working with the ATLAS Magnet Team at CERN, he completed an MSc in Applied Mathematics at Imperial College, and an MS and a PhD in Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University. He was awarded a Devonshire Postdoctoral Scholarship from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and a Junior Research Fellowship from Churchill College, Cambridge, working in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. He is currently an Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering at UCSB, where he directs the Fluid Energy Science Laboratory.
At Southampton, Luzzatto-Fegiz was awarded the Graham prize for best experimental project in the School of Engineering Sciences, together with the Royal Aeronautical Society Prize for highest first-class degree. His doctoral work received the Acrivos Award of the American Physical Society (APS) for outstanding dissertation in Fluid Dynamics at a U.S. university. He is also a recipient of a UC Regents Junior Faculty Fellowship, a Gallery of Fluid Motion Award from APS, and a Teaching Award from Northrop Grumman.