Marc Avila becomes new head of ZARM
As of 1st of March 2016, Marc Avila holds the Chair in Fluid Mechanics of the University of Bremen and takes over the position of Executive Director of the ZARM.
Generational Shift at ZARM
Marc Avila is the new director of the Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM) of the University of Bremen
As of 1st of March 2016, Marc Avila holds the Chair in Fluid Mechanics at the Faculty of Production Engineering – Mechanical Engineering & Process Engineering – of the University of Bremen. He succeeds Hans Rath who had held the Chair for 31 years and died unexpectedly in 2012. By taking over the professorship for fluid mechanics he is also appointed head of the ZARM, a position previously filled by Claus Lämmerzahl who had acted as Executive Director for the last three years.
Marc Avila comes from the small village La Selva del Camp (south of Barcelona) in Spain. Together with his family he moved to Bremen in November last year. Following his parental leave the 34-year-old will become one of the youngest directors of a scientific institute at the University of Bremen. “It is an honor for me to become head of the ZARM, a distinguished research institute of international renown. The interdisciplinary structure of the ZARM, along with the broad range of research areas and the relaxed atmosphere in the Faculty of Production Engineering, were decisive factors for me. The dynamics of fluid flows plays a key role not only in space technology but also in other core research areas at the University of Bremen such as material sciences and oceanic processes. I am therefore looking forward to new opportunities for cooperation” says Avila who previously worked as professor for Simulation of Nano and Microflows at the Institute of Fluid Mechanics of the “Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg”.
Career
Marc Avila studied Mathematics at the “Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona” and the University of Glasgow. From 2005 to 2008 he worked on his PhD at the Institute for Applied Physics of the “Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya” in Barcelona. Back then he decided on an international scientific career and spent half of his PhD as a research scholar at the Arizona State University. Subsequently, he held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen before he joined the Engineering Faculty of the “Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg” as professor in 2011.
Curriculum Vitae - Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Marc Avila
Professional Appointments
since 3/2016 Head of the Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM), Professor for Fluid Mechanics at the Faculty of Production Engineering – Mechanical Engineering & Process Engineering – of the University of Bremen, Germany
12/2011 to 2/2016 Professor for Simulation of Nano and Microflows at the Institute of Fluid Mechanics of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
10/2008 to 11/2011 Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany
08/2006 to 05/2008 Visiting Scholar School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at the Arizona State University, USA
01/2005 to 10/2008 Research Assistant at the Department of Applied Physics, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Education
2008 PhD Applied Physics and Scientific Simulation at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Spain
2004 M.Sc. Mathematics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), Spain
Awards
2009 Young Scientist Award European Mechanics Society (Euromech)
2005 Doctoral Fellowship Spanish Ministry of Education and Innovation
2004 Graduation Prize of the Department of Mathematics (UAB)
Contact for further questions:
Annette Leonhardt
Office to Professor Avila
Tel.: +49 421 218-57827
directorate(at)zarm.uni-bremen.de
Contact for media inquiries and photos:
Birgit Kinkeldey
Head of Corporate Communication
Tel.: +49 421 218-57755
birgit.kinkelde(at)zarm.uni-bremen.de
