Rösgen, Thomas, Prof. Dr.

Curriculum Vitae

Thomas Rösgen has been full Professor of Fluid Dynamics at the IFD/ETH Zurich since June 1, 1997.

Following the diploma study of engineering physics at the Technical University Berlin, he did his graduate work at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA, and received a Ph.D. in aeronautics in 1984. Subsequently, he was employed as a research fellow and staff engineer at ESA-ESTEC, the technology research center of the European Space Agency in Noordwijk, The Netherlands. Following a position as group leader in microgravity research at the Institute for Space Systems, Stuttgart University, he returned as a senior development engineer to ESA-ESTEC. During those years of academic and professional employment, he worked on such diverse topics as pattern recognition in turbulent flows, quantized vortices in superfluid helium, cryoelectronics design, radar and satellite image processing, fluid physics in microgravity, satellite image communications and in-orbit remote & autonomous experiment control.

The research activities of T. Rösgen are centered in the field of modern electro-optical diagnostics and image processing with application to fluid dynamics. He also takes special interest in problems concerning the physics of fluids in general and flow phenomena in constrained geometries.

 

Current Research Projects

• Real-time motion capture for aerodynamic probe registration (A. Landolt)
• Image Doppler velocimetry (A. Meier)
• Fluid mechanics of magnetized liquid oxygen (T. Grünberg)
• Modeling and control of aerosol-laden flows in the lung (D. Borer)
• Fluid structure interaction in bio-prosthetic heart valves (A. Landolt)
• Modeling and control of backlayering in tunnel fires (M. Ehrensperger, J.P. Kunsch)
• Infrared thermography for atmospheric reenty flows (S. Airaghi)
• Background oriented schlieren in flows with buoyancy (N. v. Hinsberg)
• Infrared imaging for surface flow visualization (L. Prochazka)