Unsteady flow diagnostics lab @ EPFL
@unfold-epfl.bsky.social
Experimentalists diagnosing vortex-dominated flows. Since 2016
@ EPFL https://www.epfl.ch/labs/unfold/
@ EPFL https://www.epfl.ch/labs/unfold/
Yesterday we went on our yearly summer lab hike. We hiked from Bière, through the arboretum du Vallon all the way down to the lake 🍺🥾🌳🥾🏖️
If you want to be part of next year's outing, apply now to one of our open PhD positions: careers.epfl.ch/job/Lausanne...
If you want to be part of next year's outing, apply now to one of our open PhD positions: careers.epfl.ch/job/Lausanne...
July 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Yesterday we went on our yearly summer lab hike. We hiked from Bière, through the arboretum du Vallon all the way down to the lake 🍺🥾🌳🥾🏖️
If you want to be part of next year's outing, apply now to one of our open PhD positions: careers.epfl.ch/job/Lausanne...
If you want to be part of next year's outing, apply now to one of our open PhD positions: careers.epfl.ch/job/Lausanne...
Several past and current PhD students of UNFoLD have shared their stories through www.storiesofwomeninfluids.org. Support this fantastic initiative and help these stories reach their readers!
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July 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Several past and current PhD students of UNFoLD have shared their stories through www.storiesofwomeninfluids.org. Support this fantastic initiative and help these stories reach their readers!
gofund.me/82470d2d
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🔬✈️ With funding from the SNSF, researchers can gain experience formative for their careers. The Postdoc.Mobility 🧳🌍 scheme is allocating a total of 24.8 million Swiss francs to support 200 postdocs either to carry out a research project abroad or to return to Switzerland.
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➡️https://buff.ly/sLWClEO
Mobility grants for 200 postdocs
The SNSF is allocating a total of CHF 24.8 million to enable 200 researchers to carry out a stay abroad or to return to Switzerland.
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July 14, 2025 at 6:11 AM
🔬✈️ With funding from the SNSF, researchers can gain experience formative for their careers. The Postdoc.Mobility 🧳🌍 scheme is allocating a total of 24.8 million Swiss francs to support 200 postdocs either to carry out a research project abroad or to return to Switzerland.
➡️https://buff.ly/sLWClEO
➡️https://buff.ly/sLWClEO
We are currently looking for multiple PhD students to join our lab in the fall or winter. Are you interested in experimental research on vortex-dominated flow? Apply now or share the link! careers.epfl.ch/job/Lausanne...
PhD positions - Experimental unsteady fluid and vortex dynamics
PhD positions - Experimental unsteady fluid and vortex dynamics
careers.epfl.ch
July 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
We are currently looking for multiple PhD students to join our lab in the fall or winter. Are you interested in experimental research on vortex-dominated flow? Apply now or share the link! careers.epfl.ch/job/Lausanne...
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A huge thanks to the Swiss Radio #CQFD #RTS for hosting me this morning, especially to Sarah Dirren and Stéphane Gabioud! They gave me the opportunity to chat about the representation of scientific research, outreach and some aspects of fundamental work in fluid structure interaction 🌀🏁
This morning rts.ch invited Gaétan to talk a more about his photo and his work: www.rts.ch/audio-podcas... (in french)
Merci #CQFD!
Merci #CQFD!
April 23, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Vanishing self-portrait, by our PhD student @gaetan-raynaud.bsky.social is among this year's winners 🎉 📷 🇨🇭
📷 #SwissScienceImage — A record 20 submissions won over the jury of the SNSF Scientific Image Competition 2025.
💡 Interplanetary collisions, expeditions to the equator, cellular choreography and aerial ballet - all fascinating visions to discover.
For more info ➡️ sohub.io/9zvk
💡 Interplanetary collisions, expeditions to the equator, cellular choreography and aerial ballet - all fascinating visions to discover.
For more info ➡️ sohub.io/9zvk
April 22, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Vanishing self-portrait, by our PhD student @gaetan-raynaud.bsky.social is among this year's winners 🎉 📷 🇨🇭
What happens in the lab, should not stay in the lab! Sebastien and his vertical axis wind turbine model are now featured in the latest issue of Bild der Wissenschaft 🌬️https://www.wissenschaft.de/bdw-hefte-specials/aktuelles-heft/
Hormone als Taktgeber (bild der wissenschaft 03/2025)
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February 24, 2025 at 5:03 PM
What happens in the lab, should not stay in the lab! Sebastien and his vertical axis wind turbine model are now featured in the latest issue of Bild der Wissenschaft 🌬️https://www.wissenschaft.de/bdw-hefte-specials/aktuelles-heft/
Great work by our colleagues from the Soft Transducers Laboratory (LMTS) at EPFL, to which we were able to make a small contribution ☺️
Highly agile flat swimming robot | Science Robotics www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Highly agile flat swimming robot | Science Robotics www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Highly agile flat swimming robot
Autonomous swimming robots are propelled by undulating pectoral fins driven at resonance by soft electrohydraulic actuators.
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February 19, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Great work by our colleagues from the Soft Transducers Laboratory (LMTS) at EPFL, to which we were able to make a small contribution ☺️
Highly agile flat swimming robot | Science Robotics www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Highly agile flat swimming robot | Science Robotics www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Check out @alexandergehrke.bsky.social's work on flexible membrane wings in @pnas.org 🦇🌀
Taking inspiration from bats, researchers build a flexible membrane wing that can create more lift than a stiff wing by bending and changing shape when it is flapped back and forth, causing air to flow along the wing without creating a vortex. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
February 17, 2025 at 7:28 PM
Check out @alexandergehrke.bsky.social's work on flexible membrane wings in @pnas.org 🦇🌀
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Taking inspiration from bats, researchers build a flexible membrane wing that can create more lift than a stiff wing by bending and changing shape when it is flapped back and forth, causing air to flow along the wing without creating a vortex. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
February 11, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Taking inspiration from bats, researchers build a flexible membrane wing that can create more lift than a stiff wing by bending and changing shape when it is flapped back and forth, causing air to flow along the wing without creating a vortex. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Exciting to see EPFL News featuring our (@unfold-epfl.bsky.social) work on how flexible, bat-like wings generate lift more efficiently! 🦇 By bending just right, they boost performance—insights that could shape future drones & energy tech. 🚀
actu.epfl.ch/news/bat-win...
#Science #FlappingWings
actu.epfl.ch/news/bat-win...
#Science #FlappingWings
Bat wings boost hovering efficiency
EPFL researchers have designed flexible, batlike wings that boost lift and improve flight performance. This innovation could lead to more efficient drones or energy-harvesting technologies.
actu.epfl.ch
January 30, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Exciting to see EPFL News featuring our (@unfold-epfl.bsky.social) work on how flexible, bat-like wings generate lift more efficiently! 🦇 By bending just right, they boost performance—insights that could shape future drones & energy tech. 🚀
actu.epfl.ch/news/bat-win...
#Science #FlappingWings
actu.epfl.ch/news/bat-win...
#Science #FlappingWings
🚨 New paper alert 🚨
@alexandergehrke.bsky.social's work on membrane wings is now published in @pnas.org 🎉
Flexible membrane wings can outperform stiff wings and, surprisingly, they perform best when the formation of a leading edge vortex is suppressed 🌀
🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2410833121
@alexandergehrke.bsky.social's work on membrane wings is now published in @pnas.org 🎉
Flexible membrane wings can outperform stiff wings and, surprisingly, they perform best when the formation of a leading edge vortex is suppressed 🌀
🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2410833121
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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January 28, 2025 at 8:25 PM
🚨 New paper alert 🚨
@alexandergehrke.bsky.social's work on membrane wings is now published in @pnas.org 🎉
Flexible membrane wings can outperform stiff wings and, surprisingly, they perform best when the formation of a leading edge vortex is suppressed 🌀
🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2410833121
@alexandergehrke.bsky.social's work on membrane wings is now published in @pnas.org 🎉
Flexible membrane wings can outperform stiff wings and, surprisingly, they perform best when the formation of a leading edge vortex is suppressed 🌀
🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2410833121