Juan Lasheras

Professor, Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering

Turbulence and fluid mechanics with a special interest in two-phase flows, particle mechanics, microgravity fluid mechanics and bio-fluid mechanics.

An aeronautical engineer by training, Professor Lasheras' research interests include turbulent flows, two-phase flows, and bio-medical fluid mechanics. He conducts laboratory and mathematical modeling of flows relevant to a wide range of applications spanning from naval hydrodynamics to propulsion and vascular hemodynamics. His bio-medical fluid mechanics work is currently centered on the complex interaction between the mechanical stimuli and the pathophysiology of vessel remodeling responsible for the enlargement of cerebrovascular and abdominal aortic aneurysms.

Capsule Bio:
Juan C. Lasheras is a professor of aerospace engineering at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering. Lasheras received the F.N. Frenkiel Award for Fluid Dynamics from the American Physical Society in 1990, the 2003 Breakthrough Innovation in Medical Sciences given by BIOCOM and BIOSECTOR of Southern California, and the 2003 High Tech Award in Medical Devices and Instrumentation given by the American Electronics Association. He is an elected member of the Royal Academy of Engineering of Spain and a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), and was a Guggenheim Fellow and a George Van Ness-Lothrop Fellow. Lasheras holds 39 patents in medical devices technology. He received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1982.

Institute Affiliation:
Whitaker Institute of Biomedical Engineering »