Phone: (801) 587-3253
E-mail: marc.calaf@utah.edu
Office: 2547 MEK
Lab: Bldg 60
Wind Energy & Turbulence Lab

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Education
  •  Post-Doctoral researcher -Dec. 2011 -2012,  Laboratory of Environmental Fluids Mechanics and Hydrology (EFLUM), École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL
  • Doctor of Philosophy in Mechanical Engineering, Jan. 2007 – Nov. 2011, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL « Study of a fully developed Wind Turbine Array Boundary Layer » (Advisors : Marc B. Parlange and C. Meneveau)
  • Doctor of Philosophy exchange student, Sept. 2007 – Sept. 2009, The Johns Hopkins University, JHU, Baltimore, USA
  • Summer school in Parallel Programming, Swiss National Supercomputing Center, Aug. 2007
  • Summer school on environmental dynamics: Pathways to ecological sustainability, Instituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, Venice, Italy, July 2007
  • Degree in Physics (specialisation in Meteorology), Sept. 2000 – June 2006, University of Barcelona, UB, Spain
  • Erasmus exchange student, Oct. 2004 – July 2005, at l’EPFL, Physics department
Professional Summary

Jan. 2007- July 2011 Teaching Assistant at EPFL. Courses : Fluid Mechanics and Numerical Analysis. July 2005 – Sept. 2005 Internship at the Snow and Avalanche research institute, SLF, Davos (Switzerland). (Task : Development of a numerical code for the study of the snowpack temporal evolution). Dec. 1999 – Apr. 2004 Ski instructor at the Escola Poliesportiva de la Molina, Spain. (With professional trainning between 2000 and 2002).

Research Interests
  • Atmospheric Sciences and Turbulence
  • Hydrology
  • Fluid Mechanics
  • Wind Farms Physics