Professional Appointments

• since 05/2018                 Chief Executive Officer, ZARM Drop Tower Operations and Service Company
• since 03/2016                  Director of the Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM),                                                                         Full Professor for Fluid Mechanics, 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

• 2018                                  Richard-von-Mises-Prize of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and                                                            Mechanics (GAMM)
• 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)

Selected Publications

• H. Li, A. Fischer, M. Avila and D. Xu. Measurement error of tracer-based velocimetry in single-phase turbulent flows with inhomogeneous refractive indices. Exp. Therm. Fluid Sci., 136:110681, 2022.
• T. Schikarski, M. Avila, H. Trzenschiok, A. Güldenpfennig and W. Peukert. Quantitative modeling of precipitation processes. Chem. Eng. J., 443:136195, 2022.
• S. Gasow, A.V. Kuznetsov, M. Avila and Y. Jin. A macroscopic two-length-scale model for natural convection in porous media driven by a species-concentration gradient. J. Fluid Mech., 926:A8, 2021.
• C. Verseux, T. P. Ramalho, J. Determann, M.Duckhorn, M. Smagin and M. Avila. A low-pressure, N2/CO2 atmosphere is suitable for cyanobacterium-based lifesupport systems on Mars. Front. Microbiol., 12:611798, 2021.
• T. Schikarski, H. Trzenschiok, W. Peukert and M. Avila. Inflow boundary conditions determine T-mixer efficiency. Reaction Chemistry & Engineering, 3, 559-568, 2019.
• A. Guseva, A. P. Willis, R. Hollerbach and M. Avila. Dynamo action in a Quasi-Keplerian Taylor–Couette flow. Phys. Rev. Lett., 119:164501, 2017.
• D. Barkley, B. Song, V. Mukund, G. Lemoult, M. Avila, and B. Hof. The rise of turbulent flow. Nature, 526(7574):550–553.
• A. P. Willis, P. Cvitanović and M. Avila. Revealing the state space of turbulent pipe flow by symmetry reduction. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 721:514–540
• M. Avila. Stability and angular-momentum transport of fluid flows between corotating cylinders. Physical Review Letters, 108:124501
• K. Avila, D. Moxey, A. de Lozar, M. Avila, D. Barkley and B. Hof. The onset of turbulence in pipe flow. Science, 333(6039):192–196

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