Curriculum Vitæ

CV.pdf

Area of Research

    Statistical description of turbulence in magnetized plasmas (MHD, Hall MHD, Electron MHD) and in neutral fluids (Navier-Stokes) with applications to solar physics (solar wind, Sun), interstellar clouds (compressible effects), geophysics (large-scale rotating and stratified flows) and cosmology.

Professional Experience / Awards

    2023-Now : Honorary fellow of Institut Universitaire de France

    2023-Now : Director of the Master (2nd year) "Plasma Physics and Fusion" (Univ. Paris-Saclay, Polytechnique, Sorbonne Univ.)

    2018-2023 : Senior fellow of Institut Universitaire de France; Chair: "Astrophysics and Turbulence"

    2018 : Professor (exceptional class) at Université Paris-Saclay

    2014 : Professor (1st class) at Université Paris-Sud / Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas

    2012 : Professor (2nd class) at Université Paris-Sud

    2011-2015 : Director of the Master (2nd year) "Plasmas: from Space to Laboratory"

    2010-2014 : President of the French National Program in Solar Physics - PNST

    2008-2013 : Junior fellow of Institut Universitaire de France

    2005-2006 : Attached to CNRS

    02/2001 : Associate Professor at Université Paris-Sud / Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale

    01/2001 : Visiting scientist at the National Center for Atmospherical Research (Boulder, Colorado, USA)

    1999-2000 : Research Assistant (Alan C. Newell / S.V. Nazarenko) at Warwick
    TMR contract on "Intermittency" (Coordinator: P. Tabeling, E.N.S. Paris)


Education

    2003 : Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches
    "Turbulence and Anisotropic Space Plasmas: Applications to Solar Physics"

    1998 : Ph.D. at the Observatoire de la Côte d'Azur in Nice.
    Thesis: "Turbulence and Intermittency in Magnetohydrodynamics"
    Adviser: Annick Pouquet.

    1994 : M.S. at Ecole Normale Supérieure and Observatoire de Grenoble
    Speciality: "Astrophysics and Plasma Physics"


Publications


Reviewer for International Journals

    Advances in Space Research

    Astrophysics and Space Science

    Europhysics Letters

    Journal of Fluid Mechanics

    Journal of Plasma Physics

    Journal of Geophysical Research - Space Physics

    Journal of Statistical Mechanics

    Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences

    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

    Nature Communication

    New Journal of Physics

    Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

    Physica D

    Physical Review Letters

    Physical Review E

    Physical Review Fluids

    Physical Review X

    Physics of Plasmas

    Planetary and Space Science

    Reviews of Modern Physics

    The Astrophysical Journal

    The Astrophysical Journal Letters

    The European Physical Journal B


Teaching

    2001-Now: First-year to fifth-year students at Université Paris-Saclay.
    Courses: MHD, Turbulence, Plasma Physics, Mathematics, Electrodynamics (192 hours/year).

    1999-2000: Second-year students at the University of Warwick.
    Course: Numerical Analysis (30 Lectures).

    1997-1998: Second-year students in the elite preparatory schools in Nice (section MP*).
    Course: Theoretical Physics.

    1995-1997: First-year students at the University of Nice.
    Course: Applied Physics.


Other Qualifications

    Running: Qualified for the French Championship 98' of marathon (2h38'58'').