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D-Index
73
Citations
23309
World Ranking
316
National Ranking
17

Eric Lauga publication distribution in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Eric Lauga sits on this spectrum.

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47 publications 659+

This scientist: 322 publications — 76th percentile

76% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 659 publications or more.

Eric Lauga D-index placement in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Eric Lauga sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 93+

This scientist: 73 D-Index — 91st percentile

91% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 93 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2016 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For outstanding theoretical contributions to a wide variety of lowReynoldsnumber biological flows

Overview

Eric Lauga is a researcher affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their academic work primarily spans the fields of engineering and physics and astronomy, with a focus on subfields such as condensed matter physics, biomedical engineering, mechanical engineering, cell biology, and atomic and molecular physics and optics.

Their research topics are centered around micro and nano robotics, microfluidic and bio-sensing technologies, modular robots and swarm intelligence, advanced thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, orbital angular momentum in optics, molecular communication and nanonetworks, and particle dynamics in fluid flows.

Eric Lauga has published extensively across various venues, with notable frequent publication platforms including arXiv (Cornell University), Physical Review Fluids, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Soft Matter, and Physical Review Letters.

Recent significant papers include:

  • "The 2020 motile active matter roadmap," 2020, Journal of Physics Condensed Matter
  • "Cilia metasurfaces for electronically programmable microfluidic manipulation," 2022, Nature
  • "Microswimming in viscoelastic fluids," 2021, Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics
  • "The bank of swimming organisms at the micron scale (BOSO-Micro)," 2021, PLoS ONE
  • "Swirling Instability of the Microtubule Cytoskeleton," 2021, Physical Review Letters

Lauga frequently collaborates with several co-authors who have contributed to multiple publications together, including Pyae Hein Htet, Raymond E. Goldstein, Alexander Chamolly, Albane Théry, and Weida Liao.

In addition to journal articles, Lauga has published books with Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press. Notable titles include "The Fluid Dynamics of Cell Motility" (2020) and "Fluid Mechanics: A Very Short Introduction" (2022).

Eric Lauga was awarded the status of Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2016, recognized for theoretical contributions to various low-Reynolds-number biological flows.

Best Publications

  • The hydrodynamics of swimming microorganisms

    Eric Lauga;Thomas R Powers

  • Swimming in circles: motion of bacteria near solid boundaries

    Eric Lauga;Willow R. DiLuzio;George M. Whitesides;Howard A. Stone

  • Effective slip in pressure-driven Stokes flow

    Eric Lauga;Howard A. Stone

  • Structured light enables biomimetic swimming and versatile locomotion of photoresponsive soft microrobots

    Stefano Palagi;Andrew G Mark;Shang-Yik Reigh;Kai Melde

  • Hydrodynamic attraction of swimming microorganisms by surfaces

    Allison P. Berke;Linda Turner;Howard C. Berg;Eric Lauga

  • Microfluidics: The no-slip boundary condition

    Eric Lauga;Michael P. Brenner;Howard A. Stone

  • Bacterial hydrodynamics

    Eric Lauga

  • Hydrodynamics of self-propulsion near a boundary: predictions and accuracy of far-field approximations

    Saverio E. Spagnolie;Eric Lauga

  • Cargo‐Towing Fuel‐Free Magnetic Nanoswimmers for Targeted Drug Delivery

    Wei Gao;Daniel Kagan;On Shun Pak;Corbin Clawson

  • The 2020 motile active matter roadmap

    Gerhard Gompper;Roland G Winkler;Thomas Speck;Alexandre Solon

  • A smooth future

    Lydéric Bocquet;Eric Lauga

  • Propulsion in a viscoelastic fluid

    Eric Lauga

  • Adaptive locomotion of artificial microswimmers

    H.-W. Huang;F. E. Uslu;P. Katsamba;E. Lauga

  • Phoretic self-propulsion at finite P'eclet numbers

    Sébastien Michelin;Eric Lauga

  • Self-propulsion in viscoelastic fluids: Pushers vs. pullers

    Lailai Zhu;Eric Lauga;Luca Brandt

  • Dynamics of swimming bacteria at complex interfaces

    Diego Lopez;Eric Lauga

  • High-speed propulsion of flexible nanowire motors: Theory and experiments

    On Shun Pak;Wei Gao;Joseph Wang;Eric Lauga

  • Life around the scallop theorem

    Eric Lauga

  • Experimental Investigations of Elastic Tail Propulsion At Low Reynolds Number

    Tony S. Yu;Eric Lauga;A. E. Hosoi

  • Spontaneous autophoretic motion of isotropic particles

    Sébastien Michelin;Eric Lauga;Denis Bartolo

  • Phoretic self-propulsion at finite Peclet numbers

    Sébastien Michelin;Eric Lauga

  • Adaptive locomotion of artificial microswimmers

    Henwei Huang;Fazil Emre Uslu;Panayiota Katsamba;Qianwen Chao

Frequent Co-Authors

Sébastien Michelin
Sébastien Michelin École Polytechnique
Michael P. Brenner
Michael P. Brenner University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Luca Brandt
Luca Brandt Polytechnic University of Turin
Metin Sitti
Metin Sitti Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Howard A. Stone
Howard A. Stone Princeton University
Philippe Marmottant
Philippe Marmottant Grenoble Alpes University
François Gallaire
François Gallaire École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Paulo E. Arratia
Paulo E. Arratia University of Pennsylvania
Takuji Ishikawa
Takuji Ishikawa Tohoku University
Joseph Wang
Joseph Wang University of California, San Diego

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