bio
Basics
| Name | Oscar Sepúlveda Steiner |
| Label | Scientist |
| osepulve@ucdavis.edu | |
| Url | https://osepulve.github.io/ |
| Summary | Water resources and hydraulics engineer focusing on field-based experimental research in environmental fluid mechanics: From lakes to polar oceans. |
Work
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2025.08 - present Assistant Project Scientist
Tahoe Environmental Research Center (TERC) University of California, Davis (UC Davis)
- Environmental Fluid Mechanics
- Physical Limnology
- Biophysical coupling
- Turbulence
- Mixing
Education
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2016.03 - 2020.09 Lausanne, Switzerland
Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Aquatic Physics Laboratory. Supervisor: Prof. Alfred "Johny" Wüest
- Thesis title: Mixing processes and their ecological implications: From vertical to lateral variability in stratified lakes
Certificates
| Mentoring academy for postdoctoral scholars | ||
| UC Davis | 2025 |
| Effective teaching series | ||
| UC Davis | 2025 |
| Scientific leadership and management skills | ||
| UC Davis | 2024 |
Languages
| Spanish | |
| Native speaker |
| English | |
| Fluent |
| French | |
| Fluent |
| German | |
| Beginner |
Interests
| Environmental Fluid Mechanics | ||||
| Turbulence | ||||
| Mixing | ||||
| Convection | ||||
References
| Prof. Alfred "Johny" Wüest | |
| PhD supervisor |
| Prof. Damien Bouffard | |
| PhD co-supervisor and first postdoc supervisor |
| Prof. Alexander Forrest | |
| Postdoc supervisor |