Key people

Experienced Researcher

Lorenzo Raffaele

Department of Architecture and Designimg_CV
Windblown Sand Modelling and Mitigation (WSMM) R&D joint group
Politecnico di Torino – Italy
Born in 1990, PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering
H-index 7
Lorenzo is a wind engineer specialising in probabilistic modelling of windblown sand action, design and performance assessment of sand mitigation measures.
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Phone: +39 011 090 4870
E-mail: lorenzo.raffaele@polito.it

Scientific Coordinator

Luca Bruno

Department of Architecture and Design
Politecnico di Torino – Italy
H-index 20
PhD in Structural Engineering, PhD in Fluid Mechanics
Luca is a wind engineer specialising in bluff body aerodynamics and design and assessment of sand mitigation measures.

Phone: +39 011 090 4870
Email:  luca.bruno@polito.it

Partner Organizations Coordinators

Jeroen van Beeck

Environmental and Applied Fluid Dynamics Department
von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics – Belgium
H-index 26
PhD in Fluid Dynamics
Jeroen is an applied physician specialising in multiphase flows, wind engineering, wind energy, and vehicle aerodynamics.

Phone: +32 (0)2 359 96 78
Email:  vanbeeck@vki.ac.be

Nicolas Coste

R&D Department
Windblown Sand Modelling and Mitigation (WSMM) R&D joint group

Optiflow Company – France
PhD in Fluid Mechanics
H-index 6
Nicolas is a skilled consultant in computational wind engineering specializing in Atmospheric Boundary Layer and flow around complex environment.
Supervising WP2 Wind Sand Computational Simulation

Phone: +33 (0)4 918 17 740
Email:  coste@optiflow.fr