Funding

Active

• NWO Large Compute Grant — Multi-fidelity computational modelling of environmental fluid systems Active
  NWO / SURFSara, NL — Sept 2024 – present
  Amount: €64,000 (4 million CPU hours)
  Named Researcher — led the development of the funding proposal, conceptualised the research direction, and drafted the main proposal document
  Large compute grant to support multi-fidelity simulations of environmental fluid systems.
• Understanding the role of surface layer stability on wind farm-induced gravity waves Active
  Stanford University, Centre of Turbulence Research — Jun 2026 – Jul 2026
  Amount: $9,000 (travel, stay, and research expenses)
  Co-applicant alongside MSc. U. C. Krishnan Paranjothi, Prof. S. Watson, and Prof. S. Hickel
  Prestigious summer research scholarship to investigate the role of gravity waves in offshore and onshore wind farms.
• IAM-CC: eVTOL assessment of downwash in urban microclimate environments Active
  European Funding Agency — Dec 2025 – present
  Amount: €425,000 (TU Delft share) of €5,000,000 total
  Scientific co-contributor alongside Assoc. Prof. C. García-Sánchez and Dr. K. Arroyo Ohori
  Contributing partner in the IAM-CC project consortium consisting of 10 partner institutes.
• Complex Roots Active
  Climate Action Fund, TU Delft — Apr 2026 – present
  Amount: €26,283
  Principal Investigator alongside Assoc. Prof. C. García-Sánchez, Assoc. Prof. B. van Wesenbeeck, and Assoc. Prof. H. Ledoux
  Scientific inquiry into understanding the resilience of Mangrove forests under the action of waves.

Awarded

• NWO Small Compute Grant — TURBOCOR: Unraveling the Turbulence Dynamics: Investigating Wave-Induced Turbulence over Corals
  NWO / SURFSara, NL — May 2023 – May 2024
  Amount: €6,400 (0.4 million CPU hours)
  Named Researcher — primary lead for the development of the research plan and proposal
  Small compute grant for the TURBOCOR project.
• XSEDE Computing Grant — Direct numerical simulations of wave-current interactions over hydraulically smooth and rough walls
  XSEDE / University of Texas (Stampede2), Stanford University — Jan 2021 – Dec 2021
  Amount: Equivalent to $409,340 in compute time
  Named Researcher — developed the research plan and proposal ensuring feasibility and scientific novelty as part of PhD research
  Compute grant for conducting DNS research on the Stampede2 computing cluster.

Under Review

• Gauss Community Centre of Excellence (GCCE): Unifying Europe's Finite Volume Community to Address Emerging HPC Challenges Under Review
  Horizon Euro-HPC — In Review
  Amount: ~€500,000 (TU Delft share) of €8,000,000 total
  Contributor alongside Assoc. Prof. C. García-Sánchez and Asst. Prof. B. Font; project consortium of 19 partner institutes across the EU
  Proposal for a community centre of excellence unifying Europe's finite volume CFD community.

Not Funded

• Zero-Pollution Cities EU funding call: UrbanCAPES Not Funded
  European Commission (Zero-Pollution Cities) — Feb 2025
  Co-lead alongside Assoc. Prof. C. García-Sánchez; co-author, led consortium meetings, coordinated deliverables across 16 partners in the EU and UK
  Proposal scored 13.5/15 in the European Commission's evaluation with positive reviewer comments, but was not selected for funding.
• Complexity: a friend, not foe — Towards a unified complexity framework to understand the flow inside heterogeneous environmental canopies Not Funded
  NWO — Apr 2026
  Principal Investigator
  Proposal to develop a unified complexity framework for environmental canopy flows.