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Unsteady flow diagnostics lab @ EPFL @unfold-epfl.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Yesterday we went on our yearly summer lab hike. We hiked from Bière, through the arboretum du Vallon all the way down to the lake 🍺🥾🌳🥾🏖️ If you want to be part of next year's outing, apply now to one of our open PhD positions: careers.epfl.ch/job/Lausanne...

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Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF) @snsf.ch · 14/07/2025

🔬✈️ With funding from the SNSF, researchers can gain experience formative for their careers. The Postdoc.Mobility 🧳🌍 scheme is allocating a total of 24.8 million Swiss francs to support 200 postdocs either to carry out a research project abroad or to return to Switzerland. ➡️https://buff.ly/sLWClEO

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Mobility grants for 200 postdocs

The SNSF is allocating a total of CHF 24.8 million to enable 200 researchers to carry out a stay abroad or to return to Switzerland.

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Unsteady flow diagnostics lab @ EPFL @unfold-epfl.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

We are currently looking for multiple PhD students to join our lab in the fall or winter. Are you interested in experimental research on vortex-dominated flow? Apply now or share the link! careers.epfl.ch/job/Lausanne...

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PhD positions - Experimental unsteady fluid and vortex dynamics

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Gaétan Raynaud @gaetan-raynaud.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

A huge thanks to the Swiss Radio #CQFD #RTS for hosting me this morning, especially to Sarah Dirren and Stéphane Gabioud! They gave me the opportunity to chat about the representation of scientific research, outreach and some aspects of fundamental work in fluid structure interaction 🌀🏁

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Unsteady flow diagnostics lab @ EPFL @unfold-epfl.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Vanishing self-portrait, by our PhD student @gaetan-raynaud.bsky.social is among this year's winners 🎉 📷 🇨🇭

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Unsteady flow diagnostics lab @ EPFL @unfold-epfl.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

What happens in the lab, should not stay in the lab! Sebastien and his vertical axis wind turbine model are now featured in the latest issue of Bild der Wissenschaft 🌬️https://www.wissenschaft.de/bdw-hefte-specials/aktuelles-heft/

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Hormone als Taktgeber (bild der wissenschaft 03/2025)

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Unsteady flow diagnostics lab @ EPFL @unfold-epfl.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Great work by our colleagues from the Soft Transducers Laboratory (LMTS) at EPFL, to which we were able to make a small contribution ☺️ Highly agile flat swimming robot | Science Robotics www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Highly agile flat swimming robot

Autonomous swimming robots are propelled by undulating pectoral fins driven at resonance by soft electrohydraulic actuators.

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Unsteady flow diagnostics lab @ EPFL @unfold-epfl.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Check out @alexandergehrke.bsky.social's work on flexible membrane wings in @pnas.org 🦇🌀

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences @pnas.org · 11/02/2025

Taking inspiration from bats, researchers build a flexible membrane wing that can create more lift than a stiff wing by bending and changing shape when it is flapped back and forth, causing air to flow along the wing without creating a vortex. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Alexander Gehrke @alexandergehrke.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Exciting to see EPFL News featuring our (@unfold-epfl.bsky.social) work on how flexible, bat-like wings generate lift more efficiently! 🦇 By bending just right, they boost performance—insights that could shape future drones & energy tech. 🚀 actu.epfl.ch/news/bat-win... #Science #FlappingWings

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Bat wings boost hovering efficiency

EPFL researchers have designed flexible, batlike wings that boost lift and improve flight performance. This innovation could lead to more efficient drones or energy-harvesting technologies.

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Unsteady flow diagnostics lab @ EPFL @unfold-epfl.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

🚨 New paper alert 🚨 @alexandergehrke.bsky.social's work on membrane wings is now published in @pnas.org 🎉 Flexible membrane wings can outperform stiﬀ wings and, surprisingly, they perform best when the formation of a leading edge vortex is suppressed 🌀 🔗 www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2410833121

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Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...

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