Mark Stremler

Mark Stremler is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech's College of Engineering, serving as the Engineering Mechanics Graduate Chair. His research focuses on fluid mechanics, with emphases on vortex dynamics, fluid-structure interaction, and biological fluid mechanics. He holds the Otto Moensted Visiting Professorship and has been recognized with awards including the Liviu Librescu Faculty Prize and Army Research Office Young Investigator award.

His academic leadership roles include directing the Multi-Scale Transport in Environmental and Physiological Systems (MultiSTEPS) IGERT Program (2010-2017), serving as Graduate Chair of Engineering Mechanics (2019-present), and directing undergraduate studies in Engineering Science and Mechanics. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and dual B.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Mathematics from Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.

Research interests include reduced-order modeling of fluid flows, coherent vortical structures, and applications in biological systems such as mosquito drinking mechanics and coronary hemodynamics. His work bridges theoretical, computational, and experimental approaches to fluid dynamics challenges.