Sandrine Aubrun

Position

  • Professor
  • Coordinator of ORACLE LabEx
  • Chief Editor for the area "Fluid Mechanics" of the journal Wind Energy Science
  • Board of Governors

Contact

Phone :
+33 2 40 37 25 95
Email :
Sandrine.Aubrun58a4cad2-ff14-40a2-a06d-93da25ec45d7@ec-nantes.fr
Office :
N-205

Research institute

Research Laboratory in Hydrodynamics, Energetics & Atmospheric Environment (LHEEA)

Research group

  • Dynamics of Urban and Coastal Atmosphere (DAUC

Research

Experimental Aerodynamics (wind tunnel and field)
Aerodynamics for wind energy
Atmosphere/wind turbine interactions
Aero-hydro coupling for floating offshore wind
Environmental aerodynamics
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Full professor at Ecole Centrale de Nantes / LHEEA since 2017

2004-2017      Associate Professor, the university of Orléans (Laboratoire PRISME)
 Experimental activities on:

  • Wind turbine aerodynamics and wakes
  • Physical Modelling of the atmospheric boundary layer
  • Flow control
  • Turbulence and unsteady signal processing

2000-2004       Researcher, Institute of Meteorology from the University of Hamburg, Germany
Experimental study of the anthropogenic and biogenic emission transport in the inhabited atmosphere area.


1998-2000       Post-doctoral position, ONERA-CERT, Toulouse, France, team TRansition et INstabilites
Experimental study of the receptivity of a 3D laminar boundary layer to an acoustic excitation.

Nov94-jan98  PhD in Fluid Mechanics, Aerodynamics, under the direction of Professor Hieu HA MINH, IMFT, Toulouse, France
Experimental study of coherent structures from a turbulent separated flow behind a backward facing step and Comparison with the plane mixing layer.

Teaching activities
Teaching activities Fluid Mechanics
Wind energy, wind turbine wakes and interactions
Publications
Publications
Awards and distinctions
Awards and distinctions EAWE (European Academy of Wind Energy) Scientific Award 2024 for her outstanding contributions and pioneering role in enhancing the understanding of wind turbine wake dynamics through physical modelling and experimentation
2019 - 2022: Elected member of the Scientific Council of Centrale Nantes
2023 - 2026: Elected member of the Board of Governors of Centrale Nantes
Published on July 16, 2024 Updated on November 2, 2026

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