Renan Soares
Senior Specialist Technical Officer (R&D Applied Aero) at University of Southampton
Southampton, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolRenan Soares is an applied aerodynamicist and Senior Specialist Technical Officer with nine years of hands-on experience in wind tunnel testing, PIV and CFD-driven R&D at the University of Southampton. He leads operations and consultancy at the UK’s largest university-owned wind tunnel, translating experimental methods into commercial solutions across automotive, aerospace, sports and marine sectors. His PhD and postdoctoral work focused on wake characterisation and advanced optical metrology, giving him deep expertise in WT–CFD correlation and aeroelastic experiments using stereo-, tomo- and high-speed PIV, DIC and Shake-the-Box. Renan is also a proven mentor and supervisor, with a track record of preparing MSc students for motorsport careers and securing confidentiality in industry collaborations. Notably, he combines practical wind tunnel management and model design skills with advanced image-based diagnostics, enabling non-intrusive measurement strategies that uncover flow physics often missed by conventional approaches. Based in Southampton, he blends academic rigour with enterprise-facing delivery to drive experimental aero projects from concept to deployable insight.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
University of Johannesburg Master's degree Mechanical Engineering / Fluid Mechanics / Aerodynamics (2-year degree program), Master's degree Mechanical Engineering / Fluid Mechanics / Aerodynamics (2-year degree program) at Universidade Federal de Uberlândia - UFUBachelor's degree Mechanical Engineering (5-year degree program), Bachelor's degree Mechanical Engineering (5-year degree program) at Federal University of Technology - ParanaDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Aerospace / Applied Aerodynamics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Aerospace / Applied Aerodynamics at Cranfield University
Portuguese, English, Italian
Github Skills (61)
revert9
django-admin9
sketchup8
xadmin8
textbook8
admin7
sympy7
coordinates7
java7
laravel7
network-programming7
django7
multithreading7
lock-free7
management6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
renph/Reproduce-texture-vs-shape
Apr 2019 - Sep 2019
Contributions:27 commits, 4 pushes in 5 months
renph/Genius
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
Genius source code
Contributions:4 PRs, 17 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
geniusreactnextjstypescript
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