Michael Amitay is the James L. Decker ‘45 Endowed Chair in Aerospace Engineering and the Director and founder of the Center for Flow Physics and Control at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI). He received his D.Sc. (1994) from the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology in Israel. He was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Arizona (1994-1996). From 1996 to 2003 he held several positions at Georgia Tech Research Institute and at Georgia Institute of Technology. He joined RPI in 2003. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS). Prof. Amitay has over 250 journal and conference publications, four book chapters, three conference papers that were awarded "best technical paper" by ASME and by AIAA, and eight U.S. patents. His current research interests are in the fields of experimental fluid mechanics, aerodynamics, and flow control with applications in aerial and ground vehicles. As a 2025-2026 Fulbright Scholar, Michael will be hosted at School of Production Engineering & Management, Technical University of Crete with Prof. Ioannis K. Nikolos to conduct research and teaching. Michael will conduct research on bio-inspired flow control where the ultimate goal of the research is to use the knowledge gained from the flow physics underlying aspects of avian dynamic environment rejection capabilities, to potentially incorporated them into human-designed systems. In addition, he will deliver a series of lectures on Aerodynamic Flow Control. The targeted audience are post-graduate students at the Technical University of Crete, who will participate in person, as well as post-graduate students throughout Greece, who will participate remotely. This will be coordinated with the host, Prof. Nikolos at the Technical University of Crete.