César Dopazo is a professor at the University of Zaragoza, Spain, where he teaches Fluid Mechanics at graduate and postgraduate level. Professor Dopazo (León, Spain, 1943) graduated as an Aeronautical Engineer from Madrid Polytechnic University in 1969. He then pursued doctoral degrees at the State University of New York, Stony Brook (PhD in Mechanical Engineering, 1973) and at Madrid Polytechnic University (PhD in Aeronautical Engineering, 1979). He was an Associate Scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratory (US Department of Energy) from 1976 to 1978, and then became a Technical Advisor until 1983; and he was a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Johns Hopkins University from 1974 to 1976. On his return to Spain, and following a brief spell in Industry, he was appointed Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the University of Zaragoza in 1981.

His research interests span a wide variety of topics, including: probabilistic approaches to turbulence, mixing and combustion; intermittency in turbulent shear flows; multi-phase flows (including the derivation of the two-phase flow equations using a statistically conditioned averaging formalism); PDF transport methods for turbulent flows; the local geometry of isoscalar surfaces and its influence in mixing and chemical reaction; cavitating bubble dynamics; and energy modeling and energy planning.