Luc Deike, Ph.D.

Luc Deike is an associate professor in the Princeton University Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and the High Meadows Environmental Institute. Deike joined the Princeton faculty in winter 2017, coming from the University of California, San Diego, where he served as a postdoctoral researcher at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 2013 to 2016. Deike received his Ph.D. from the University Paris Diderot in 2013 and his M.Sc. and B.Sc. from the École Normale Supérieure in Paris. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2019 the François Frenkiel award from the American Physical Society’s Division of Fluid Dynamics in 2023 and then the McGraw Graduate Mentoring Award from the Princeton University Graduate School and the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning in 2023. His research focuses on fundamental fluid dynamics with an emphasis on multi-scale systems, motivated by their importance in environmental and industrial applications, including ocean-atmosphere interactions, aerosol science, and multi-phase turbulent flows.