VladGiurgiu. — Experimental postdoctoral researcher in environmental flows.
Experimental postdoctoral researcher in environmental flows.
Curious & hands-on.
Having a strong ethical compass, a passion for physics, an incurable curiosity, and appreciation for nature and all life-forms aligns my work with my values. For these reasons I work on experimental multiphase flows with an environmental focus. Being in the lab fulfils my drive for building facilities and instrumentation, producing reliable data, and understanding new phenomena.
Education
- 05/2021 — 05/2025
PhD Mechanical Engineering — TU Wien
Complete rotation rates of curved microplastic fibers in wall turbulence.
- 06/2018 — 05/2021
MSc Mechanical Engineering — TU Wien
The TU Wien Turbulent Water Channel: measurements and statistics.
- 03/2013 — 05/2018
BSc Mechanical Engineering — TU Wien
Rayleigh–Taylor Convection in Confined Porous Media.
- 6peer-reviewed publications
- 60+citations — Google Scholar
- 3MSc theses supervised
- 5journals served as reviewer
The same toolkit, three environmental problems.
My research includes carbon dioxide capture and storage, oceanic microplastic pollution prediction, and reduction of emission and energy use of industrial processes. The method is common to all of them: build the instrument, take the measurement, and close the loop with learning, modelling, and simulation.
Lecturing, supervising, and four side initiatives.
- 2022 — today
Supervision of 3 MSc theses — TU Wien
3 theses
- 2017 — today
Lecturer and tutor for Applied Fluid Mechanics Lab, Fluid Mechanics 1 and 2, TU Wien
ongoing
- enduro riding
- espresso making
- indie movies
- audiophile
- gardening
- art exhibitions
Five clusters, from optical metrology to languages.
Experimental Fluid Mechanics
- PTV, PIV & ML-PIV
- Instrumentation engineering
- Image processing
- Tomographic reconstruction
- 3D high-speed camera setup
- Synthetic-data uncertainty quantification
- Validation with numerical data
- PID control
Numerical CFD
- Ansys Discovery Live
- Ansys Mechanical
- OpenFOAM
- Heat-transfer in baking lines
- Conjugate heat-transfer simulations
- CFD geometry optimisation
- Validation against experiments
Programming & Data
- Prompt engineering
- MATLAB
- LabView
- Bash / Linux
- Git
- LaTeX
- Statistical analysis
- Technical documentation
Communication & Teaching
- Scientific writing
- Lecturing & tutoring
- MSc supervision
- Conference presenter
- Cross-functional R&D communication
- Public outreach through art
- Peer review
Languages
- Romaniannative
- EnglishC2
- GermanC1
- FinnishA1
Get in touch.
I'm always happy to chat about research, collaborations, and more.
vlad.giurgiu@tuwien.ac.at