Michael LoCascio

Michael is a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Wind Engineering Laboratory at Stanford University, advised by Catherine Gorlé. He received his Ph.D. in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Stanford in 2025 with a focus in Atmosphere and Energy; he received his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford in 2023 and his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UCLA in 2020.

His research primarily focuses on atmospheric boundary layer flows. His Ph.D. dissertation, in collaboration with the National Wind Technology Center at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), focused on the development of low-fidelity, analytical modeling tools for wind farm power prediction and optimization. His current postdoctoral work concerns the modeling and simulation of turbulent fluxes of momentum, heat, and mass related to ecosystem-scale emissions of methane.

Michael spends his free time cooking, reading, making music, and watching baseball.