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Alec Linot

Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, UMass-Amherst, 2025 – Present

Postdoc, UCLA, Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, 2025
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin - Madison, Chemical and Biological Engineering, 2023
B.S., Kansas State University, Chemical Engineering, 2017

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at UMass-Amherst. My group focuses on using computation and theory to model, control, and analyze a variety of fluid flows. I am particularly interested in systems that exhibit sustained chaotic dynamics, and the transition mechanisms to chaos. Wall-bounded Newtonian turbulence is a canonical example of a chaotic fluid system, but many other fluid systems can exhibit chaotic behavior, such as bacteria aggregation, viscoelastic flows, and Rayleigh–Bénard convection.