Léon Lüer has been a doctoral researcher at the Institute of Fluid Mechanics (ISM) since May 2025, under the supervision of Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rolf Radespiel. He holds a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and an M.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering from TU Braunschweig, as well as a French Diplôme d’Ingénieur from the Université de Technologie de Compiègne (UTC). Prior to his academic studies, he completed an apprenticeship as an aircraft mechanic specializing in engine technology with the German Air Force in cooperation with MTU Aero Engines.
He conducted his master’s thesis during a one-year research stay as a Visiting Graduate Student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, MA, USA, in the Hypersonics Research Lab (HRL) under the supervision of Prof. Wesley L. Harris. His work focused on numerical simulations of electrophilic gas injection into reactive crossflows for mitigating plasma blackout during atmospheric reentry.
His current research at ISM focuses on the experimental determination of freestream disturbances in hypersonic wind tunnels. To this end, he develops and uses advanced optical measurement techniques and specialized pressure probes. Another key aspect of his work is the inverse decomposition of the measured data to quantify the fundamental disturbance modes.