Djamel Lakehal

Djamel Lakehal is the head of the Advanced Modelling & Simulation Department (AMS; link) of AFRY Switzerland, providing simulation & data-analytics based services for industry. He is the founder and former CEO of external pageASCOMP, an R&D company specialized in industrial thermal-fluid dynamics, which developed and maintains the CMFD solver TransAT. He obtained his MS & PhD in Fluid Mechanics from Ecole Centrale of Nantes, France. After four years of research on turbulence modelling at the Univ. of Karlsruhe (with Prof. W. Rodi) and TU-Berlin (with Prof. F. Thiele), he joined the Laboratory of Nuclear Energy Systems at ETH as Senior Scientist and Lecturer, where he obtained the Venia Legendi (Habilitation) jointly with Ecole Centrale Lyon. Dr Lakehal contributed substantially to the research on multiphase flow, namely in the LES and DNS areas. He acts as an adjunct lecturer at ETH Zurich and ENS Paris, as an referee expert for various international institutions, and as an associate editor of Int. Journal Multiphase Flow.