Biographical Information

Marianna Braza (PhD INPT, 1981) received her Ph.D. in Fluid Mechanics from the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse (INPT) in 1981. She was appointed as Director of Research at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), at the "Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse" (IMFT) in 2001, after holding research position of "Chargée de Recherche" for four years at CNRS-IMFT. Founded in 1918, the IMFT is one of the leading research laboratories in Europe and the research carried out at the IMFT involves scientific domains ranging from energy, transport (especially aeronautics), process, environment and health. Her current responsibilities involve leadership of the research team ``Fluid-Structure interaction under Turbulent flows'' in IMFT, including several permanent and invited faculty members, doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows. Her research interests are in flow physics and modeling of turbulent aerodynamic flows, and fluid-structure interaction. She has received three scientific awards (CRAY-Research, France, 1987); (Académie des Sciences et de Belles Lettres de Toulouse, 1988); (IBM - Calcul Numérique Intensif, 1991). Currently, she is the coordinator of several working groups in federative European Research Programmes of the 6th and 7th Framework (FP7) in areas related to aeronautics, fluid-structure interactions and unsteady flow physics of shock waves, and she coordinates a national aeronautics research program on Electroactive Morphing. She co-authored the book "DESider - A European Effort on Hybrid RANS-LES Modelling'' (Springer, 2009), as well as the book "Unsteady Separated Flows and their Control", Proceedings of the second IUTAM symposium held in June 2007, in Corfu, Greece (Springer 2009). She is also author/co-author of seven versions of the CFD numerical software ICARE/IMFT.