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Biography
Detlef Lohse (born September 15, 1963 in Hamburg) is a German professor in the University of Twente's Department of Physics of Fluids in the Netherlands.
Biography
Lohse graduated from the University of Bonn in 1989 with a degree in Physics, and completed his PhD at the University of Marburg in 1992. He served as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Chicago from 1993 to 1995, and was finally made chair of Physics of Fluids at the University of Twente in 1998.
Scientific Work and Recognition
His present work includes turbulence and two-phase flows, granular flow, micro- and nanofluidics, and the biomedical application of bubbles.
Professor Lohse was a recipient of the 2012 Batchelor Prize, 2005 Spinoza Prize for his work on sonoluminescence, and was awarded with a knighthood in the Order of the Netherlands Lion in 2010. He is also a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2005, and a Fellow of the American Physical Society.