Michel Louge

Michel Louge obtained his PhD from Stanford University in 1985. After a year as Process Development Engineer at Shell in the Netherlands, he joined the faculty of Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, where he is now a full professor. Prof. Louge's research interest includes experimental and theoretical studies of gas-solid and granular flows, unsaturated porous media, desert geophysics, and the design of advanced instrumentation for dense suspensions. He is an associate editor of Journal of Geophysical Research, and of Mechanics Research Communications. He received the Award for Best Environmental Research of the Year by the Qatar Foundation in 2011, and he is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow of the UK Royal Academy of Engineering (2014). He was a Visiting Professorship at Tsinghua University in the Fall 2017 and 2018. He currently advises Merck on measurements of density and moisture in pharmaceutical powders, and he serves the International Particle Research Institute as Powder Flow consultant.