John Dabiri

John O. Dabiri, Ph.D., is an aeronautical engineer who designs next-generation wind turbines with the potential to reduce cost, size, and environmental impacts while maximizing the amount of electricity generated. His discoveries on the ideal placement of wind turbines were shaped by his cross-disciplinary research into how jellyfish and schools of fish move throughout the ocean efficiently. A recipient of the MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Fellowship, he is the Centennial Professor of Aeronautics and Mechanical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology. John Dabiri received a B.S.E. (2001) from Princeton University and an M.S. (2003) and Ph.D. (2005) from the California Institute of Technology, where he is currently an associate professor of aeronautics and bioengineering. His scientific articles have appeared in such journals as Nature, the Journal of Fluid Mechanics, the Journal of Experimental Biology, and PNAS.