Bert Blocken
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Professor of Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) KU Leuven
Dr. Bert Blocken is Full Professor in the Department of the Built Environment at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in the Netherlands and part-time Full Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at KU Leuven in Belgium. His main areas of expertise are urban physics, wind engineering and sports aerodynamics. He has published 180 papers in international peer-reviewed journals. According to the 2016 Academic Ranking of World Universities (Shanghai Ranking) & Elsevier, he is among the 150 most cited researchers world-wide both in the field of Civil Engineering and in the field of Energy Science & Engineering. He is listed as 2018 and 2019 Highly Cited Researcher by Clarivate Analytics (Web of Science) for production of multiple highly cited papers that rank in the top 1 percent by citations for field and year in the Web of Science Core Collection. He is an editor of the journal Building & Environment, associate editor of the Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics and assistant editor of the journal Sports Engineering. He supervises a team of five senior researchers and 26 PhD students. Website at urbanphysics.net.