Dr. Jeff Marshall is a VASE Board Member, inducted in 2026.

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Jeff Marshall is a Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the
University of Vermont (UVM). He received BS and MS degrees from the University of
California, Los Angeles, and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley. Prior to coming to UVM in 2006, he served for 13 years on the Mechanical Engineering faculty at the University of Iowa, including service as Chair of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department. At UVM, Dr. Marshall has served as director of the School of Engineering, director of the NSF-funded Smart Grid Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training Program, and Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Education at the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences.

 

Dr. Marshall has authored over 150 journal publications and book chapters, and three academic books (Inviscid Incompressible Flow, John Wiley & Sons, 2001; Adhesive Particle Flow: A Discrete Element Approach, Cambridge University Press, 2014; and Physics of Vortex Flows, Springer Nature, 2025). He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and a recipient of the Henry Hess Award from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Young Investigator Award from the Army Research Office, and the CIES Fellowship from the French Ministry of Education.

Professor Marshall studies the mechanics of incompressible fluids and particulate flows, with applications to energy, biological, and aerospace systems. His specific areas of focus include three-dimensional vorticity transport, interaction of vortices with structures, and physics of adhesive particles. His work has a wide variety of applications, including helicopter and aircraft aerodynamics, hydraulic pump intake flows, blood flow and damage by mechanical heart valves, mechanics of snowflakes and their interactions with vegetation, sediment erosion and interaction with turbulent boundary layer structures, dust adhesion to solar panels, and nanoparticle mitigation of bacterial biofilms.