People
Principal Investigator
Nick Ouellette is an Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 2002 with a double major in Physics and Computer Science. He earned his Ph.D. (in Physics) in 2006 from Cornell University, where he worked with Eberhard Bodenschatz. Before coming to Yale, he was a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in 2006 (working with Eberhard Bodenschatz) and from 2007-2008 in the Physics Department at Haverford College (working with Jerry Gollub). You can read Nick's dissertation or CV.
Postdocs
Doug Kelley is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Ouellette lab. He earned a BS in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech in 2000 and an MS in physics from Auburn in 2004. He completed his doctoral work in physics, studying with Daniel P. Lathrop at the University of Maryland, in 2009. His academic interests include many sorts of turbulence (rotating, two-dimensional, hydromagnetic…), especially when understood with the language of nonlinear dynamics. You can read Doug's dissertation, CV, or teaching philosophy. You can also contact him: 
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Graduate Students
Nidhi Khurana is a graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. She obtained her MS from the School of Physical Sciences at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. At Yale, she has worked with Prof. Blawzdziewicz. With him, she numerically investigated nonlinear dynamics of rigid spherical particles freely suspended in a fluid, under Stokes flow conditions. In the Ouellette lab, she is using computational methods to study dynamics of swimming particles in chaotic flows.
Alexandre de Chaumont Quitry is a graduate student in Mechanical Engineering. He graduated from Brown University in 2009 with a BS in Engineering and Physics. In the Ouellette lab, he is investigating Von Karman turbulent flows in complex fluids using Lagrangian particle tacking.
Undergraduates
Sophia Merrifield is an undergraduate entering her fourth year at Yale University. She is a double major in Physics and Mechanical Engineering. Her academic interests include ocean circulation, atmospheric physics, modeling, fluid dynamics, and turbulence. Her research experience includes 3 summers of work in Oceanography culminating in co-authorship of a sea level paper submitted to the Journal of Climate. In the Ouellette lab, she will work with 2D turbulent flows using Lagrangian particle tracking techniques. She plans to begin graduate studies in the fall of 2010.