Sylvain Laizet is a professor in the Department of Aeronautics at Imperial College London (ICL). He holds a PhD and a Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches from the University of Poitiers in France in the field of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) applied to turbulence. Understanding turbulent flows and how to manipulate them in various engineering applications is the motivation behind his research. With his collaborators at Imperial College, in France and in Brazil, he has developed over the years high-order finite-difference highly-scalable flow solvers dedicated to the study turbulent flows. Within the turbulence simulation group at ICL, he is currently investigating wake-to-wake interactions in wind farms, Bayesian optimisation techniques for the maximisation of the power output of large-scale wind farms, active control solutions for turbulent flows, and quantum computing and machine learning tools applied to CFD. In particular, I have developed recently a unique wind farm simulator in order to design and optimise already installed and future onshore/offshore wind farms.