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