Eckart Heinz Meiburg (born 1959) is a

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professor of

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at the

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UCSB, retrieved 2021-02-13. His research focuses on using

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to study phenomena including

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AGU press release
"New study solves mystery of salt buildup on bottom of Dead Sea". in

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and

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, double diffusive instabilities, and particle-laden flows.ISS National Lab's "Upward" Magazine
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Education

Meiburg did his undergraduate studies

University of Karlsruhe The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; german: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie) is a public research university in Karlsruhe, Germany. The institute is a national research center of the Helmholtz Association. KIT was created in 2009 w ...

, earning a Diplom-Ing. of Mechanical Engineering in 1981. Following one year under a DAAD fellowship at Stanford, he did his PhD studies at

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as well in 1985.

Career

Following a one-year postdoc at

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

chemical engineering Chemical engineering is an engineering field which deals with the study of operation and design of chemical plants as well as methods of improving production. Chemical engineers develop economical commercial processes to convert raw materials int ...

, Meiburg went to

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in 1987 as an assistant professor of applied mathematics. In 1990 he went to the

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as professor of aerospace engineering. In 2000 he moved to

University of California Santa Barbara The University of California, Santa Barbara (UC Santa Barbara or UCSB) is a public land-grant research university in Santa Barbara, California with 23,196 undergraduates and 2,983 graduate students enrolled in 2021–2022. It is part of the Un ...

as a professor of mechanical engineering, where he currently works. He was the

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of the mechanical engineering department from 2003 to 2007, and is currently a distinguished professor. He has been an associate editor of ''

Physical Review Fluids ''Physical Review Fluids'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal, published monthly by the American Physical Society. The journal focuses on fluid dynamics and also covers geophysical fluid dynamics, biofluid dynamics, nanofluidics and magnetohyd ...

'' since 2014.PRFluids Editor List
/ref> He has been an associate editor of European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids and served on the editorial board of Journal of Turbulence. His awards have included a Senior Gledden Fellowship (2005) from the Institute of Advanced Studies at the

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, the

Humboldt Prize The Humboldt Prize, the Humboldt-Forschungspreis in German, also known as the Humboldt Research Award, is an award given by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation of Germany to internationally renowned scientists and scholars who work outside of G ...

(2005) Senior Research Award,Humboldt Foudation awardees list
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Presidential Young Investigator Award The Presidential Young Investigator Award (PYI) was awarded by the National Science Foundation of the United States Federal Government. The program operated from 1984 to 1991, and was replaced by the NSF Young Investigator (NYI) Awards and Presiden ...

(1990),Presidential Young Investigator grant
/ref> a first prize at the Scottish Offshore Achievement Awards, and the APS Gallery of Fluid Motion Flow Visualization Award (2001, 2004). He is a fellow of the

American Physical Society The American Physical Society (APS) is a not-for-profit membership organization of professionals in physics and related disciplines, comprising nearly fifty divisions, sections, and other units. Its mission is the advancement and diffusion of k ...

(2005)Eurekaler: UC Santa Barbara's Eckart Meiburg elected a fellow of the American Physical Society
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American Society of Mechanical Engineers The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) is an American professional association that, in its own words, "promotes the art, science, and practice of multidisciplinary engineering and allied sciences around the globe" via "continuing ...

(2013).Noozhawk: UCSB Professor Eckart Meiburg Named a Fellow of American Society of Mechanical Engineers
/ref>UCSB Press Release: "Mechanical Engineering Professor Eckart Meiburg Elected Fellow of ASME"
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References

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