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Jerry Westerweel (Rotterdam, December 4, 1964) is a professor of mechanical engineering at the Delft University of Technology.

Scientific Work and Recognition
After high school, Westerweel studied applied physics in Delft. He obtained his PhD cum laude in 1993 in Delft / at TU Deft with a thesis on an optical measurement method in fluid mechanics for studying the structures that occur in turbulent flows. After graduating, he worked as a Academy Research Fellow of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) as a researcher at Stanford University and the California Institute of Technology. In December 2001 he was appointed Anthoni van Leeuwenhoek professor at the Delft University of Technology. Since 2005 he has held the chair in fluid mechanics at the same university. He currently heads the Laboratory for Aero & Hydrodynamics and the Ship Hydromechanics group at the Department of Marine and Transport Technology.