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Oumaima Lamaakel

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Address:

4800 Oak Grove Drive

Pasadena, CA 91109

Member of:

Aerosols And Clouds

JIFRESSE Postdoc

Education

  • Ph.D., Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of Connecticut, USA (2023)
  • M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, University of Connecticut, USA (2020)
  • B.Sc., General Engineering, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco (2018)

Professional Experience

  • Postdoctoral scholar at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory & University of California in Los Angeles (2023–present)
  • Research and teaching assistant at the University of Connecticut (2018 - 2023)
  • Research intern at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (summer 2022)
  • CEO and founder of Optimus SAMOY underwater technologies (2016 - 2018)

Research Interests

  • Geophysical fluid dynamics
  • Remote sensing of the atmosphere
  • Development and validation of atmospheric models using observational data
  • Turbulence modeling

Selected Awards

  • Stonehenge award: Best graduating engineering capstone project, School of Science & Engineering, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane (2018)
  • 1st Place: Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) ROV MEA Regional Competition (2018)

Selected Publications

  1. Lamaakel, O., Venters, R., Teixeira, J., & Matheou, G. (2023). Computational Domain Size Effects on Large-Eddy Simulations of Precipitating Shallow Cumulus Convection. Atmosphere, 14(7), 1186.
  2. Lamaakel, O., & Matheou, G. (2022). Organization development in precipitating shallow cumulus convection: Evolution of turbulence characteristics. Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, 79(9), 2419-2433.
  3. Lamaakel, O., & Matheou, G. (2021). Galilean invariance of shallow cumulus convection large-eddy simulations. Journal of Computational Physics, 427, 110012.