Detlef Lohse

Detlef Lohse FRS (born 15 September 1963 in Hamburg) is a German physicist (fluid dynamicist) and professor in the University of Twente's Department of Physics of Fluids in the Netherlands.

Biography Lohse studied at the University of Kiel and University of Bonn, graduating in Bonn in 1989 with a degree in Physics, and completed his PhD at the University of Marburg in 1992 with Professor Siegfried Grossmann on "Fully developed turbulence," receiving his doctorate summa cum laude (with distinction). He served as a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Chicago with Leo Kadanoff from 1993 to 1995, which he later described as a formative experience in his scientific career. In 1997 he got his Habilitation in theoretical physics at the University of Marburg on the subject of Sonoluminescence. He joined University of Twente in 1998 where he leads the Physics of Fluids department.

Lohse has been an external member of the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization in Göttingen, Germany since 2015. Since 2016, he is a founding member of the Max Planck Center for Complex Fluid Dynamics at University of Twente.

He is married with two children. His groundbreaking work on bubble dynamics and sonoluminescence (the emission of light from acoustically driven bubbles) helped solve a longstanding scientific puzzle by explaining the phenomenon through bubble shape stability, diffusive stability, chemical stability, and energy focusing. In the field of micro- and nanofluidics, he investigates fluid behavior at microscopic and nanoscopic scales. His research on inkjet printing explores the fluid dynamics challenges in printing technologies. Lohse has conducted pioneering work on surface nanobubbles and nanodroplets, studying the stability and properties of nanoscopic bubbles on surfaces. and was awarded with a knighthood in the Order of the Netherlands Lion in 2010.

Additional major honors include three European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Grants (2010, 2017, 2023), membership in the National Academy of Engineering of the United States (elected 2017), the Simon-Stevin-Meesterschap Prize (2009), and the AkzoNobel Science Award (2012). a member of the National Academy of Engineering since 2017, a Fellow of the American Physical Society, a member of the German Academy of Sciences "Leopoldina" (elected 2002), a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (elected 2004), a member of the Netherlands Academy of Technology and Innovation (elected 2017), About 75 of his former PhD students and postdocs now hold professorships worldwide Several startup companies have emerged from his Physics of Fluids Department, including ACFD Consultancy, Tide Microfluidics, Bubclean, and Iamfluidics and Shell-Master-Thesis Prize in Physics

Lohse has demonstrated his commitment to science education through teaching activities including course lectures on "Physics of Fluids," "Dynamics," and "Advanced Fluid Mechanics," as well as special lectures on topics such as turbulence, granular flow, and stochastic processes.