Diego Lopez

Diego Lopez is a Lecturer at National Institute of Applied Sciences Lyon (INSA Lyon), affiliated with the Laboratory of Fluid Mechanics and Acoustics (LMFA-UMR 5509). He teaches Physics in the Undergraduate Department at INSA Lyon, responsible for tutorials and practical work in Mathematical Tools for Engineering Sciences (OMSI), Optical Measures, Electrokinetics, and Mechanical Electromagnetism.

His research focuses on fluid-structure interaction problems with ecological and biological applications. Key research themes include:

• Transport of floating materials in environmental hydrodynamics
• Sedimentation of anisotropic particles in turbulent flow
• Bacterial locomotion near complex interfaces
• Reconfiguration strategies of plants under fluid flow

Dr. Lopez completed his doctoral research at École Polytechnique ParisTech with his 2012 thesis "Modeling reconfiguration strategies in plants submitted to flow."

As a member of the Environment Team (EE) within LMFA's Complex Fluids and Transfers Group, he develops simplified models to identify fundamental mechanisms driving complex fluid-structure interactions in natural systems.