Prof. Ramis Örlü, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
The FLUCOME 2025 local organizing committee is honored to announce the award of the Nakayama medal to Prof. Ramis Örlü, for his significant contributions to the measurement and control of turbulent flows.
Ramis Örlü is a Professor of Fluid Mechanics at OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University in Norway. He earned a mechanical engineering degree (Dipl.-Ing.) in mechanical engineering from Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, in 2003, followed by a Ph.D. in engineering mechanics specializing in experimental fluid dynamics and turbulence at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, in 2009. In 2015, he was appointed docent in experimental fluid physics at KTH, where he has been a researcher since 2009 and continues to contribute part-time. Since 2017, he has also held an adjunct professorship at the University of Bologna, Italy. In 2023, he joined OsloMet as an associate professor in fluid mechanics and was promoted to full professor in 2024. Over the years, he has held fellowships and guest professorships in Germany and Turkey. His research focuses on fundamental aspects of turbulent flows, emphasizing skin-friction and drag reduction through passive and active control techniques. He utilizes large-scale wind tunnel facilities and integrates high-fidelity simulations to cross-validate experiments and computational results. In addition to his research, he is the Editor-in-Chief of Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, serves on the Editorial Advisory Boards of Flow, Turbulence and Combustion and Advances in Aerodynamics, and has co-edited the Progress in Turbulence series.
Prof.Dr.-Ing. Anne-Marie Schreyer, Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences, Germany
Anne-Marie Schreyer’s research is focused on understanding flow phenomena in aerospace transportation and propulsion systems. Her interests include unsteady aerodynamics, shock-wave/boundary-layer interactions, separation control in high-speed flows, and fluid-structure interactions. Anne-Marie combines experiments und numerical simulations to answer fundamental questions in fluid dynamics that directly affect and advance engineering applications. She has been awarded prestigious fellowships including an Emmy Noether grant of the German Research Foundation DFG. Anne-Marie received a doctoral degree at the Institute of Aerodynamics and Gas Dynamics of the University of Stuttgart, Germany, after a graduating in Aerospace Engineering at the same university. Since 2017, she has lead a research group at the Institute of Aerodynamics and Chair of Fluid Mechanics at RWTH Aachen University, Germany. In 2025, she has been appointed as Research Professor at Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences.
Prof. Maria Rosaria Vetrano, KU Leuven, Belgium
Maria Rosaria Vetrano was born in Naples, Italy, in 1975. She earned a five-year university degree in Physics from the University of Naples Federico II in 1999 and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium, in 2006. Her research interests lie in optics and fluid mechanics, with a particular focus on developing laser- and light-based non-intrusive measurement techniques for two-phase flows. She has pioneered several advanced techniques, including laser-induced fluorescence methods for measuring liquid and gas temperatures in flashing jets, scattering techniques for characterizing droplet size distribution and temperature in sprays, extinction techniques for analyzing micro- and nanoparticle flows, tomographic methods for reconstructing 3D gas/liquid interfaces, and optical heat flux gauges.
From 2007 to 2012, she served as a Senior Research Engineer at the von Karman Institute for Fluid Mechanics (VKI) in Belgium. In 2012, she became an assistant professor, and in 2015, she was promoted to associate professor. Between 2013 and 2017, she led VKI’s Cryogenic Research Group, where she conducted experimental studies on phenomena such as sloshing, boiling, nucleation, cavitation, and slush formation in liquid nitrogen. Since February 2017, she has been a professor at KU Leuven (Belgium), where she leads the “Heat & Mass Transfer Group” within the Mechanical Engineering Department. Her team’s research focuses on fluid mechanics and heat transfer phenomena, including pool and flow boiling, droplet impact with heat transfer (spray cooling and freezing), cryogenic heat transfer, and the development of advanced optical-based diagnostics.
Prof. Taku Nonomura, Nagoya University, Japan
Taku Nonomura received a B.S. degree in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, in 2003, and a Ph.D. degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 2008. He has previously worked for the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) as a researcher and Tohoku University, in Sendai as Associate Professor. He is currently a Full Professor with the Department of Aerospace Engineering at Nagoya University. His interests cover computational aeroacoustics and fluid mechanics using high-order weighted schemes, experimental aerodynamics and flow control as well as the advancement and use of data-driven science methods for fluid mechanics.