Diogo Bolster

I am an environmental fluid dynamicist interested in how water, air, contaminants, particles, heat, and uncertainty move through natural and engineered systems. My work sits at the intersection of hydrology, fluid mechanics, environmental engineering, applied mathematics, and decision-making, with problems ranging from pore-scale transport in groundwater to rivers, watersheds, buildings, fires, coastal flooding, and climate-related risk.

At Notre Dame, I lead a research group that develops mathematical models, numerical tools, laboratory experiments, and field-inspired studies to better understand environmental flows across scales. A common thread through my work is the search for simple, useful descriptions of complex systems: how fluids mix, how contaminants react and spread, how uncertainty grows, and how science can support better environmental decisions.

After earning my undergraduate degree at University College Dublin in Ireland, I worked as a CFD engineer and project manager before moving to the United States for graduate work in environmental fluid dynamics at UC San Diego. I later worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Technical University of Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain, and joined the faculty at Notre Dame in August 2010.

2010

Joined Notre Dame Engineering

200+

Peer-reviewed journal publications

3

Core lenses: models, experiments, decisions