His recent work includes the use of LES for wind-energy-related applications[1] and the development of the Johns Hopkins Turbulence Database[2] for sharing large-scale datasets from high-fidelity computational fluid dynamics calculations.

in mechanical engineering, Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Valparaíso (Chile), 1985 His Ph.D. advisor was K. R. Sreenivasan and his thesis was on the multi-fractal nature of small-scale turbulence.

The research has led to new engineering models that will allow for better designed wind farms thus increasing their economic benefit and helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels.

As a deputy director of JHU’s Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science, he worked with a team of computer scientists, applied mathematicians, astrophysicists, and fluid dynamicists that built the JHTDB (Johns Hopkins Turbulence Databases).

Interfaces in turbulence were shown to have a fractal dimension of nearly 7/3, where the 1/3 exponent above the value of two valid for smooth surfaces could be related to the classic Kolmogorov theory.

And a universal multi-fractal spectrum was established, leading to a simple cascade model, which has since been applied to many other physical, biological and socio-economic systems.

2021: Recipient, 2021 Fluid Dynamics Award from the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), "for advancing both the theoretical and practical understanding of turbulence through groundbreaking modeling techniques and applications of large-eddy simulation."

2014-2015: Midwest Mechanics Lecturer 2012-2013: Fulbright Scholar, US-Australia Fulbright Scholarship 2012: Stanley Corrsin Lecturer, Johns Hopkins University 2011: First recipient of the Stanley Corrsin Award from the American Physical Society, citation: “For his innovative use of experimental data and turbulence theory in the development of advanced models for large-eddy simulations, and for the application of these models to environmental, geophysical and engineering applications.” 2005: Foreign corresponding member of the Chilean Academy of Sciences 2005: Appointed to the Louis M. Sardella Professorship in Mechanical Engineering 2004: UCAR Outstanding Publication Award for co-authorship of the paper by Horst et al., that appeared in J. Atmospheric Science 2003: Johns Hopkins University Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award 2001: François N. Frenkiel Award for Fluid Mechanics, American Physical Society 1989: Henry P. Becton Prize for Excellence in Research, Yale University 1985: Premio Federico Santa María, UTFSM Valparaíso, Chile American Academy of Mechanics, Fellow.