
Biography
Dr. Ali Ozel was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Fluid Mechanics at the National Polytechnic Institute of Toulouse, France in October 2011 with a financial support from the Marie Curie Fellows Association Grant of European Commission. As a post-doctoral fellow at the Fluid Mechanics Institute of Toulouse (Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse), he collaborated with a multi-national chemical company Ineos Group Limited (INEOS, France), the Mechanics and Engineering Institute in Bordeaux (Institut de Mécanique et d’Ingénierie) and Chemistry Laboratory in Toulouse (Laboratoire de Génie Chimique). He then worked as an associate research scholar in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Princeton University, USA for three years. Dr. Ozel has B. Sc. and M. Sc. degrees in Aerospace and Aeronautical Engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Turkey and Research Master in Environmental and Applied Fluid Dynamics from von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Belgium. He joined at Heriot-Watt University as an assistant professor of oil and gas engineering in September 2017.
Areas of interest
- Drag
- Engineering
- Fluidized Bed
- Fluids
- Gases
- INIS
- Modeling
- Particles
- Simulation