He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 2006. After his doctoral studies, Dr. Bardet was a lecturer and postdoctoral fellow at UC Berkeley, before postdoctoral training at the California Institute of Technology. He joined the Faculty at GW in August 2010. His current research is focused on understanding vorticity interaction with liquid-gas interfaces resulting in air entrainment and atomization, instabilities and vortex breakdown in swirling jets, and Fluid-Structure Interactions in nuclear reactor cores during seismic events. His research group is currently developing non-intrusive laser diagnostics for measuring water vapor temperature and dissolved gas concentration in liquids. Dr. Bardet teaches courses in Fluid Mechanics, Thermodynamics and Experimental Methods.