Julio Soria holds a Personal Chair in Mechanical Engineering (Aerodynamics and Fluid Mechanics) within the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in the Faculty of Engineering at Monash University. He is interested in the physics and control of turbulent flows. He uses both physical experiments and direct numerical simulation to investigate fluid physics. His current research interests include: attached and separated trubulent boundary layer flow, subsonic and supersonic jet flow, swirling flow physics, the development of non-intrusive optical experimental measurement methods and direct numerical simulations of turbulent flows.