Dr Oliver Buxton (2003)

Oliver Buxton is currently a Reader in Experimental Fluid Mechanics in the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College London. He graduated with an M.Eng. In Engineering from St. John’s College in 2007 and a Ph.D. in Aeronautics from Imperial College London in 2011. Subsequently, he spent two years as a postdoc at the University of Texas at Austin before returning to Imperial College London in 2013. His research focuses on turbulent flows; he is currently an EPSRC fellow understanding and modelling the turbulent wakes that wind turbines produce in order to develop optimisation strategies for designing future offshore wind farms. He sits on the advisory board for the UK Turbulence Consortium and is a past winner of the Europe-wide ERCOFTAC Leonardo da Vinci award.