Mohamed Gad-el-Hak

Mohamed Gad-el-Hak is the Inez Caudill Eminent Professor of Biomedical Engineering and former chair of mechanical engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University. He received Ph.D. from the Johns Hopkins University, and has since taught and conducted research at the University of Southern California, University of Virginia, University of Notre Dame, Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, Université de Poitiers, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Technische Universität München, and Technische Universität Berlin.

Dr. Gad-el-Hak is the author of the book “Flow Control: Passive, Active, and Reactive Flow Management,” and editor of the books “Frontiers in Experimental Fluid Mechanics,” “Advances in Fluid Mechanics Measurements,” “Flow Control: Fundamentals and Practices,” “The MEMS Handbook” (first and second editions), “Transition and Turbulence Control,” and “Large-Scale Disasters: Prediction, Control, and Mitigation.”

Professor Gad-el-Hak is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Physical Society, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the American Academy of Mechanics.

In 1998, Gad-el-Hak was named the fourteenth ASME Freeman Scholar. In 1999, he was awarded the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt Prize, Germany’s highest research award for senior U.S. scientists and scholars in all disciplines. In 2002, Gad-el-Hak was named ASME Distinguished Lecturer, as well as inducted into the Johns Hopkins University Society of Scholars.

Home Page: http://www.people.vcu.edu/~gadelhak/