2026 George Haller: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	59	716	648	12	11	192	15591

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Switzerland Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Switzerland Leader Award
2020 - SIAM Fellow For contributions to applied dynamical systems including the theory of Lagrangian coherent structures.

Overview

George Haller is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland and works primarily in the field of Engineering. Their research encompasses several subfields, including Computational Mechanics, Civil and Structural Engineering, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Control and Systems Engineering, and Global and Planetary Change.

Their research topics focus extensively on Model Reduction and Neural Networks, Bladed Disk Vibration Dynamics, Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows, Structural Health Monitoring Techniques, Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design, Fluid Dynamics and Vibration Analysis, and Hydraulic and Pneumatic Systems.

Recent publications by George Haller include the following papers:

Data-driven modeling and prediction of non-linearizable dynamics via spectral submanifolds, 2022, Nature Communications
How to compute invariant manifolds and their reduced dynamics in high-dimensional finite element models, 2022, Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)
Model reduction to spectral submanifolds and forced-response calculation in high-dimensional mechanical systems, 2020, Journal of Sound and Vibration
Search and rescue at sea aided by hidden flow structures, 2020, Nature Communications
Nonlinear analysis of forced mechanical systems with internal resonance using spectral submanifolds, Part I: Periodic response and forced response curve, 2022, Nonlinear Dynamics

Frequent co-authors of George Haller are:

Bálint Kaszás
Mattia Cenedese
Shobhit Jain
Joar Axås
Mingwu Li

George Haller has published many articles in various venues, notably:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Nonlinear Dynamics
Journal of Fluid Mechanics
Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science
Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)

They have contributed to books published by Cambridge University Press and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, with titles including:

Transport Barriers and Coherent Structures in Flow Data (2023)
Modeling Nonlinear Dynamics from Equations and Data - with Applications to Solids, Fluids, and Controls (2025)

George Haller was awarded the SIAM Fellow distinction in 2020 for contributions to applied dynamical systems, including the theory of Lagrangian coherent structures.

Best Publications

An objective definition of a vortex

G. Haller

1203
Citations
Lagrangian coherent structures and mixing in two-dimensional turbulence

G. Haller;G. Yuan

1093
Citations
Lagrangian Coherent Structures

George Haller

1088
Citations
Distinguished material surfaces and coherent structures in three-dimensional fluid flows

G. Haller

1021
Citations
Lagrangian coherent structures from approximate velocity data

G. Haller

686
Citations
Defining coherent vortices objectively from the vorticity

G. Haller;A. Hadjighasem;M. Farazmand;F. Huhn

497
Citations
A variational theory of hyperbolic Lagrangian Coherent Structures

George Haller

489
Citations
Finding finite-time invariant manifolds in two-dimensional velocity fields

G. Haller

453
Citations
Detection of Lagrangian coherent structures in three-dimensional turbulence

M. A. Green;C. W. Rowley;G. Haller

417
Citations
Lagrangian structures and the rate of strain in a partition of two-dimensional turbulence

G. Haller

312
Citations
Coherent Lagrangian vortices: The black holes of turbulence

G. Haller;F. J. Beron-Vera

308
Citations
Lagrangian coherent structures: The hidden skeleton of fluid flows

Thomas Peacock;George Haller

261
Citations
Uncovering the Lagrangian skeleton of turbulence.

Manikandan Mathur;George Haller;Thomas Peacock;Jori E. Ruppert-Felsot

258
Citations
Experimental Measurements of Stretching Fields in Fluid Mixing

G. A. Voth;G. H. Haller;Jerry P. Gollub;Jerry P. Gollub

256
Citations
Nonlinear normal modes and spectral submanifolds: existence, uniqueness and use in model reduction

George Haller;Sten Ponsioen

256
Citations
Computing Lagrangian coherent structures from their variational theory

Mohammad Farazmand;George Haller

243
Citations
A critical comparison of Lagrangian methods for coherent structure detection

Alireza Hadjighasem;Mohammad Farazmand;Daniel Blazevski;Gary Froyland

239
Citations
Pollution release tied to invariant manifolds: A case study for the coast of Florida

Francois Lekien;Francois Lekien;Chad Coulliette;Arthur J. Mariano;Edward H. Ryan

233
Citations
How to compute invariant manifolds and their reduced dynamics in high-dimensional finite element models

Shobhit Jain;George Haller

227
Citations
Where do inertial particles go in fluid flows

George Haller;Themistoklis Sapsis

223
Citations
Forecasting sudden changes in environmental pollution patterns

María J. Olascoaga;George Haller

196
Citations
Variational Theory of Hyperbolic Lagrangian Coherent Structures

George Haller

9
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Pak Wai Chan Hong Kong Observatory

Jan S. Hesthaven Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Pierre F. J. Lermusiaux MIT

Jerry P. Gollub Haverford College

Adrian Constantin University of Vienna

Nicholas T. Ouellette Stanford University

Gustavo Goni Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory

Gary Froyland University of New South Wales

Stephen Wiggins University of Bristol

Igor Mezic University of California, Santa Barbara

External Links

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