Lorena Barba is a faculty member in the College of Engineering at Boston University. She has a PhD in Aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology, and specializes in computational fluid dynamics and high-performance computing.

Lorena has lived in England and Chile (where she grew up) and has several years of experience in higher education. She is an advocate of open-source software for science and open educational resources, and shares her courseware on iTunes U and You Tube. She is also interested in education technology, social learning and the recent spread of massively open online courses.

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