About Dutch-Flemish Wind Engineering Association Members

Jeroen van Beeck

Jeroen graduated from applied physics at TU Eindhoven and completed the Research Master at the von Karman Institute, where he currently is the Head of the Environmental and Applied Fluid dynamics deparment and dean of the faculty. His expertise encompasses wind tunnel testing, CFD methodologies, laser techniques, multiphase flows, meteorology, wind energy, wind loading, gas dispersion, vehicle aerodynamics and industrial flows.

Chris Geurts

Chris has a structural engineering brackground from TU Eindhoven, with expertise in structural dynamics, reliability and Building Envelope Technology. After being a part-time professor at TU Eindhoven, he now works at TNO, Delft. Chris has been the chair from the Dutch-Flemish Association for Wind Engineering since 1999.

Clara García-Sánchez

Clara graduated as an aerospace engineer at the Polytechnic University of Valencia in 2011, completing the Research Master of Fluid Dynamics at the von Karman Institute in 2012. She obtained her PhD, focused in computational fluid dynamic simulations of urban flows, through a collaboration between Antwerp Universtiy and the von Karman Institute in 2017. Since 2019 she is an assistant professor at Delft University of Technology (TUDelft), where she focuses on wind and dispersion predictions in urban environments with an uncertainty quantification perspective.

Liesette La Gasse

Liesette has a background in structural mechanics, and is now working in structural reliability related topics at TNO, Delft. She is the KIVI B&W representative for the Dutch-Flemish Wind Engineering Association.

Steffi Gillmeier

With a background in Meteorology, Steffi gathered experience in Wind Engineering as a research associate at the Environmental Wind Tunnel Laboratory of the University of Hamburg and the Civil Engineering Laboratory of the University of Birmingham. Since 2018, Steffi is a senior researcher and the wind tunnel project engineer at TU Eindhoven. She has worked on a variety of wind induced challenges, such as, the physical simulation of tornadoes, pedestrian wind comfort, pollutant dispersion, aerodynamics of crops and trees, as well as vehicle and cycling aerodynamics.

Marcel van Uffelen

Marcel has a back ground in applied physics, holding wide expertise in computational fluid dynamics, thermal comfort, wind loading, wind tunnel testing, wind noise and building physics. He has worked in Peutz since 1996, being an active member of the Windtechnologische Gesellschaft Germany. He is currently the secretary of the Dutch-Flemish Wind Engineering Association.

Ine Wijnant

Ine studied mechanical engineering at Twente University and graduated in fluid dynamics. She has worked at KNMI since 1993, first as a (maritime) weather forecaster and since 2009 doing research on wind climate. The focus of her work is on offshore wind energy and coastal defense, not on wind engineering. But, as a famous palaeopathologist said: “All knowledge is connected to all other knowledge. The fun is in making the connections”.