Rene Pecnik
Professor at Technische Universiteit Delft
Delft, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolRene Pecnik is a professor at TU Delft with nine years of formal professional experience and a long academic trajectory rooted in mechanical engineering and a PhD from Technische Universität Graz. His research blends applied collaboration with gas-turbine industry partners and fundamental work in numerical analysis, fluid mechanics, and turbulence, driven by a clear commitment to renewable energy systems. He progressed through assistant and associate professorships to his current role, with a postdoctoral stint at Stanford that shaped his computational and experimental approach. Known for bridging theory and practice, he brings a dual background that accelerates technology transfer from lab-scale models to industrial applications. Based in Delft, he combines deep disciplinary rigor with hands-on problem solving, often pursuing cross-disciplinary angles that reveal practical design insights not immediately obvious from simulations alone.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D, Mechanical Engineering, with distinction, Ph.D, Mechanical Engineering, with distinction at Technische Universität Graz
Github Skills (1)
dns2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Fluid-Dynamics-Of-Energy-Systems-Team/AAT_pythonHandOnLecture
Mar 2020 - Aug 2025
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
Fluid-Dynamics-Of-Energy-Systems-Team/interactive-IB-NS-code
Nov 2018 - Jun 2019
interactive immersed boundary Navier-Stokes code
Contributions:24 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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