Wassim Dhaouadi
Wassim Dhaouadi is a Tunisian mechanical engineer. He is known for having solved Bretherton's buoyant bubble problem in physics as an undergraduate at the EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne).
Career and recognition
[edit]Dhaouadi studied mechanical engineering and received a BSc from EPFL in 2018 and a MSc from ETH Zurich in 2020. As a bachelor student in John Kolinski's laboratory at EPFL, Dhaouadi solved Bretherton's buoyant bubble, a long-standing problem in physics. By using an optical interference method, he was able to prove the existence and measure the physical properties of a thin liquid film that had been hypothesized by physicists to explain why air bubbles appear to get stuck in capillaries.[1][2][3][4][5]
In 2020, Dhaouadi was named one of the ten Outstanding Young Persons in the World in the category of Academic Leadership by the Junior Chamber International.[6][7] He was also awarded with the Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. Leadership and Ethics Award from Columbia Business School.[6]
He currently works as an intern in NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ Dhaouadi, Wassim; Kolinski, John M. (2019-12-02). "Bretherton's buoyant bubble". Physical Review Fluids. 4 (12): 123601. Bibcode:2019PhRvF...4l3601D. doi:10.1103/PhysRevFluids.4.123601.
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- ^ Staff Reporter (2019-12-07). "Century-Old Physics Problem Solved by a Student". Science Times. Retrieved 2020-09-10.
- ^ "Wassim Dhaouadi, étudiant tunisien diplômé de l'Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne ( EPFL Suisse) : Il élucide un phénomène jusque-là inexpliqué". La Presse de Tunisie (in French). 2019-12-05. Retrieved 2020-09-10.
- ^ a b "JCI". jci.cc. Retrieved 2020-09-10.
- ^ Min, 1+1= 7 Juillet 2020 at 19 H. 04. "JCI-TOYP 2020 : Le Tunisien, Wassim Dhaouadi, parmi les 10 jeunes les plus remarquables au monde - Kapitalis". kapitalis.com (in French). Retrieved 2020-09-10.
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