Fernando Porté-Agel

Fernando Porté-Agel is a Full Professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), leading the Wind Engineering and Renewable Energy Laboratory (WIRE) within the School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering (ENAC). His expertise spans Environmental Fluid Mechanics, Turbulence, and Wind Energy. He holds a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University (1999) and has held academic positions at the University of Minnesota before joining EPFL in 2010.

Education:

• Ph.D., Environmental Engineering, Johns Hopkins University (1999)
• M.Sc., Hydrologic Engineering, IHE Delft (1995)
• B.S., Civil Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña (1992)

Research Interests:

• Large-eddy simulation of atmospheric boundary layers
• Wind turbine wakes and wind farm optimization
• Environmental fluid dynamics and turbulence modeling
• Wind energy systems and renewable energy technologies

Awards:

• McKnight Presidential Fellow (2006–2009)
• NASA Young Investigator Award (2001–2004)
• NSF CAREER Award (2001–2006)

Teaching & Advising:

• PhD Students: Duan Guiyue, Jamshidmofid Mohammad, and others
• Courses: Fluid Mechanics (for SIE), Environmental Transport Phenomena

Labs & Teams: Directs the WIRE lab, collaborating on projects involving wind farm layout optimization, lidar-based wake measurements, and turbulence modeling.