Alessio Pappa

Alessio Pappa graduated as mechanical engineer specialized in energy systems in 2014 at University of Mons. During his master thesis at the von Karman institute, he performed experimental investigations on heat transfer with application to turbine blade cooling in collaboration with Prof. Tony Arts. He spent three years at Hammon, working on cooling towers and joined the group in 2016 to work on numerical simulation of Fuel and operational flexibility of micro Gas Turbines in collaboration with Prof. Ward De Paepe.

Antoine Verhaeghe

Antoine Verhaeghe graduated as mechanical engineer specialized in energy systems in 2020 at University of Mons. During his master thesis, he implemented adaptive mesh refinement for Large Eddy Simulation (LES) of turbulent combustion in combustion chamber of Micro Gas Turbines. This allowed to predict more accurately combustion products while reducing computational cost.
He is working on the BEST project, completing a PhD thesis at University of Mons in collaboration with Prof. Ward De Paepe. His work will focus on assessment of potential of Carbone Capture applied to Micro Gas Turbines and Combined Cycle Gas Turbines (CCGTs).

Patrick Tene Hedje

Patrick Tene Hedje graduated as mechanical engineer specialized in energy systems in 2020 at University of Mons. During his master thesis performed at the von Karman institute in collaboration with Prof. Christophe Schram, he worked Numerical investigation of the aerodynam- ics and aeroacoustics of a complex wing. After graduation, he worked one year on the POPE project to perform wall modeled simulation of wind turbine flows. He is now preparing a Ph.D thesis concerning numerical simulation of high speed low pressure turbines with application to geared turbofan in collaboration with Prof. Sergio Lavagnoli at VKI. 

Elisa Stendardo

In her PhD (in collaboration with Prof. Julien Blondeau, VUB), she will investigate the combustion of gaseous fuels derived from green hydrogen by means of Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) using advanced Large Eddy Simulation (LES) techniques combined with advanced chemical mechanisms reduction techniques. The main technical challenge will be to deliver accurate simulation results based on the state-of-the art chemical mechanisms within a reasonable computational time, for the relevant fuels and fuel mixtures. Conclusions will be drawn from these fundamental results for the modelling of the combustion processes in industrial applications.

Stéphanie Zeoli, Ph.D.

Stéphanie Zeoli graduated as mechanical engineer specialized in mechatronics in 2012 at University of Mons. After graduation she worked one year as engineer at Caterpillar. After that, she joined UMONS to perform a Ph.D thesis on Numerical Simulation of turbulent flows with application to wind engineering problems (2018). She is now senior teaching and research associate at UMONS. 

Orkun Temel, Ph.D.

After his engineering degree in turkey, Orkun Temel performed a research master at the von Karman institute (VKI). In 2015 he obtained a FRIA-FNRS grant to prepare a Ph.D. thesis in collaboration with Prof Jeroen Van Beeck (VKI) on Multiscale and multiphysical modelling of the atmospheric boundary layerdefended in 2018. He is currently working at the Royal Observatory of Belgium.

Simone Giorgetti, Ph.D.

Following his master degree in energy engineering from university of Pisa, Simone worked on an industrial research project funded by Engie towards the development of sustainable fuels issued from the power- to-fuel. In 2016 he obtained a FRIA-FNRS grant to continue his Ph.D thesis in collaboration with Prof. Alessandro Parente (ULB) and Prof. Ward de Paepe on Advanced gas turbine cycles in the framework of CO2 capture defended in 2019. He is currently team leader in model based engineering at Atlas Copco.  

Marie Cordier, Ph.D

Marie Cordier graduated as mechanical engineer specialized in energetics in 2014 at University of Mons. After graduation she joined UMONS as teaching and research assistant to perform a Ph.D thesis on «Large eddy simulation of MILD combustion, application to free-jets and a lab-scale furnace» (2021). She is now working as Software Engineer at OPTIMAL COMPUTING. 

Nicolas Coudou, Ph.D.

Nicolas Coudou graduated as mechanical engineer specialized in energy in 2014 at University of Mons. He performed a research master at the von Karman institute (VKI). In 2016 he obtained a FRIA-FNRS grant to prepare a Ph.D thesis in collaboration with Prof. P. Chatelain (UCLouvain) and J. Van Beeck (VKI) on Numerical and experimental investigations of the meandering phenomenon in wind turbine wakes (2021). He is now research engineer at the von Karman institute. 

Marion Coquelet, Ph.D.

Marion Coquelet obtained her Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering at the Faculté Polytechnique of the University of Mons. She prepared a joint PhD at UMONS and UCLouvain (collaboration with Prof. P. Chatelain, ERC Wake-Op Coll) She defend her thesis  entitled "Numerical investigation of wind turbine control schemes for load alleviation and wake effects mitigation" in December 2022. She is now post-doc associate at TU-Delft.