Success comes from the people you get to work with. I am fortunate to work with several excellent collaborators and many wonderful students.
Collaborators, Past and Present
Patrick Bontoux, CNRS, France
Umberto D’Ortona, Aix-Marseille University Umberto D’ORTONA Laboratoire de Mécanique, Modélisation & Procédés Propres (m2p2.fr)
Denis Martinand, Aix-Marseille University Denis MARTINAND Laboratoire de Mécanique, Modélisation & Procédés Propres (m2p2.fr)
Julio M. Ottino, Northwestern University
Eric Serre, CNRS, France Eric SERRE Laboratoire de Mécanique, Modélisation & Procédés Propres (m2p2.fr)
Rob Sturman, University of Leeds
Paul Umbanhowar, Northwestern University Paul B. Umbanhowar | Faculty | Northwestern Engineering
Graduate Students and Post-Docs
The Ottino-Lueptow research group in July 2024
(l-r) Richard Lueptow, Hantao He, Dhairya Vyas, Mengying Wang, Qiong Zhang, Julio M. Ottino (missing Paul Umbanhowar and Suwei Liu)
The Ottino-Lueptow research group in September 2013
Front Row (l-r) Richard Lueptow, Paul Park, Zafir Zaman, Julio M. Ottino; Second Row: Paul Umbanhowar, Austin Isner, Adam Spitulnik, Yi Fan; Back Row: Conor Schlick, Darius Wheeler, Dennis Diaz.
The Ottino-Lueptow Research Group in 2007
(l-r) Diego A. Melani Barreiro, Nick Pohlman, Ashley Smart, Pengfei Chen, Richard Lueptow, Julio Ottino, Gabriel Juarez, Steve Cisar, Steve Meier, Jiajun Wang.
The Lueptow Research Group in 2006
(l-r) Tapan Shah, Andi Petculescu, Antje Brucks, Nick Pohlman, Richard Lueptow, Yuan Yao.
Doctoral Students and PostDocs I have Advised or Co-advised
Ivan Christov, Purdue University
Olivier Czarny, AREVA SA, France
Steve Meier, Exxon-Mobil
Steve Wereley, Purdue University
Pengfei Chen, UOP-Honeywell
Nick Pohlman, Northern Illinois University
Andi Petculescu, University of Louisiana
Steve Snarski, Applied Research Associates
Jay Schwille, Aerospace Corporation
Shannon Ciston, Unversity of California, Berkeley
Sangho Lee, Kookmin University, Korea
Yuan Yao, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Yeomin Yoon, University of South Carolina
Nitin Jain, ZS Associates
David Sheppard, US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives
Alp Akonur, Baxter Healthcare
Augustin Min, Fenwal Inc.
Yi Fan, The Dow Chemical Company
Hongyi Xiao, University of Michigan
Lu Jing, Tsinghua University
Song Gao, The Dow Chemical Company
Zafir Zaman, DuPont de Nemours, Inc.
Undergraduate Research
We integrate undergraduates into our research program. Mechanical engineering student Marissa Krotter was lead author on the cover article in the International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos in 2012. In addition to Northwestern undergraduates, students have visited from the French Air Force Academy, MIT, and the University of Bremen.