Dr. Robert Mettin (PhD in Physics in 1996) is a member of the permanent research staff and has headed the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Cavitation and Micro-Erosion at the DPI for 7 years. He has worked experimentally and theoretically on nonlinear dynamics, acoustics, fluid dynamics and optics. His main research activities include ultrasound and acoustic cavitation, bubble and drop dynamics, surface cleaning, sonochemistry and sonoluminescence.
Dr. Carlos Cairós earned his PhD in Chemistry in 2010, and he has worked on acoustic cavitation and bubble dynamics, sonoluminescence and sonochemistry at the DPI for 5 years. His main research interests focus on the links between bubble dynamics and sonochemistry, sonoluminescence spectroscopy, especially the connection between multibubble sonoluminescence (MBSL) and single-bubble sonoluminescence (SBSL), and the arising applications in sonochemical reactor design.
Dr. Sergey Nikitenko earned his PhD in Chemistry in 1981. Currently he is a Director of Research at CNRS France. Since 2008 he has been Head of the Laboratory of Sonochemistry in Complex Fluids at Marcoule Institute for Separation Chemistry (ICSM). His research focuses on sonochemistry, sonoluminescence, synthesis of nanomaterials, inorganic chemistry, and radiochemistry.
Dr. Rachel Pflieger (PhD in Physical Chemistry in 2006) has been pursuing research at the ICSM sonochemistry lab since 2008. She has been working on single-bubble sonoluminescence, SBSL (in the framework of a collaboration with Max-Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces of Potsdam, Germany) and on multibubble sonoluminescence, MBSL (at ICSM). Her main research interests are sonoluminescence spectroscopy, bubble size estimation based on sonoluminescence intensity measurements, and the investigation of the links between sonoluminescence and sonochemistry.