Current Position

CNRS Resarcher Director at Laboratoire de Physique ENS Lyon.
Hydrodynamics, Dynamo effect, Plasma Turbulence, Turbulence in liquid metals
Link to Les Houches school 2011 (Dynamics and turbulent transport in plasmas and conducting fluids)
Link to Les Houches school 2015 (Turbulence, magnetic fields and self organization in laboratory and astrophysical plasmas)

Research

Plasma Turbulence

Plasma flows, plasma turbulence and magnetic induction processes
Young Researcher grant from Agence Nationale de la Recherche
Numerical simulations funded by labex iMUST
Collaboration A. Aanesland, W. Bos, M. Bourgoin, F. Godeferd, J.-F. Pinton
Advisor V. Désangles (2015-2018); Post-docs: G. Bousselin, A. Poyé

Dynamo Instability : Collaboration VKS

Magnetic field self-generation in a fully turbulent liquid sodium flow
Collaboration CEA/DSM, CNRS, ENS Paris, ENS Lyon, experiment run at CEA Cadarache

Magnétohydrodynamics: turbulence, instabilities and innovative instrumentation

Collaboration J.-F. Pinton, R. Volk, P. Odier, M. Bourgoin, M. Moulin, P. Metz, M. Tanase
PhD advisor: G. Verhille (defended Sept. 2010) ; S. Miralles (defended Oct. 2013)
Project: Magnetic distortion probe form the lab to industry funded by PULSALYS (2016). Collaboration G. Bousselin.

PhD Thesis: Stability of an electronegative inductive plasma

Laboratoire de Physique et Technologie des Plasmas - Ecole Polytechnique
Advisors: P. Chabert et J. Perrin
Collaboration C. Corr, J.-L. Raimbault et SP3 - Australian National University - Canberra (Australie)

Teaching

Teaching at ENS Lyon

MHD turbulence, dynamo (Master 2), labs (Master 1), electromagnetism
Team leader of the ENS de Lyon team for the French Physicists' Tournament and the International Physicist Tournament. Our team won the 2016 international final! and was ranked 4th on the 2017 international final.

Science demonstrator at Palais de la Découverte (2003 - 2006)

LecturerEcole Supérieure Ingénieurs de Beyrouth

Faculté d'Ingénierie - Université Saint Joseph – Beyrouth - LIBAN (2000-2002)

Collaborations

International Collaborations

Center for Plasma in the Laboratory and Astrophysics - U. Wisconsin - Madison - USA

Cary Forest, Mark Nornberg, Ken Flanagan, David Weisberg

Institut für Theoretische Physik - Bochum U. - Germany

Rainer Grauer, Sebastian Kreuzahler

Institut Continuous Media Mechanics - Perm - Russia

Peter Frick, Ruslan Khalilov, Ilya Kolesnichenko

Plasma Research Lab - ANU - Canberra - Australie

Rod Boswell, Christine Charles, Albert Meige, Orson Sutherland

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences- U. C. Berkeley - Californie - USA

Allan Lichtenberg, Michael Lieberman

French collaborators

Laboratoire de Mécanique des Fluides et d'Acoustique - Lyon

Wouter Bos, Fabien Godeferd, Alessandro De Rosis, Francesco Palermo

Laboratoire Lagrange - Obs. Nice

Yannick Ponty, Holger Homann

Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas - Ecole Polytechnique - Palaiseau

Ane Aanesland, Pascal Chabert, Jean-Luc Raimbault

Centre de Physique des Plasmas et de leurs Applications de Toulouse - Toulouse

Jean-Pierre Boeuf, Gerjan Hagelaar, Albert Meige

Collaboration VKS

Service de Physique de l'Etat Condensé - CEA Saclay
Laboratoire de Physique Statistique - ENS Paris
Laboratoire de Physique de L'ENS Lyon