Simen Andreas Ådnøy Ellingsen | |
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Born | May 14, 1981 |
Nationality | Norwegian |
Occupation | Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology |
Simen Andreas Ådnøy Ellingsen (born 14 May 1981) is a Norwegian engineering physicist specializing in fluid mechanics, especially waves, turbulence, and quantum mechanics. He is a full professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, at the Department of Energy and Process Engineering. [1] He is known for having expanded Lord Kelvin's work known as Kelvinangle. [2] He received the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters Prize for Young Researchers in the Natural Sciences in 2011 [3] and became a member of the Young Academy of Norway in 2019. [4] He received a European Research Council Consolidator Grant in 2022. [5]
He plays several instruments and has published music with the band Shamblemaths. [6]
Ellingsen has two doctoral degrees. The first from 2009 is Nuclear Terrorism and Rational Choice from King's College London. [7] The second from 2011 is Dispersion forces in Micromechanics: Casimir and Casimir-Polder forces affected by geometry and non-zero temperature from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. [8]
In 2011 he was the winner of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters Prize for Young Researchers in the Natural Sciences. [3]
Ellingsen became one of 12 new members of the Young Academy of Norway in 2019, [4] and is member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters. [10]