PERSONAL INFORMATION
Thierry Alboussière
Researcher employed by CNRS, national French research institute
ORCID 0000-0002-3692-899X
Date of birth: 14 October 1967
Nationality: French
URL for web site: http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/thierry.alboussiere
EDUCATION
1994 PhD in Magnetohydrodynamics and compositional segregation in crystal growth
Centre d’Etudes Nucléaires de Grenoble, France
1990 Engineering Degree in Fluid Mechanics
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Hydraulique et de Mécanique de Grenoble, France
CURRENT POSITION
2010 - present CNRS senior researcher
Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon, France
PREVIOUS POSITIONS
2003 - 2010 CNRS researcher
Laboratoire de Géophysique Interne et Tectonophysique de Grenoble, France
1996 - 2003 Lecturer
Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, United-Kingdom
1997 - 2003 Fellow and Director of Studies
Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, United-Kingdom
1994 - 1996 Post-Doctoral researcher
Laboratoire MADYLAM, Grenoble, France
FELLOWSHIPS and AWARDS
2002 ‘Edmond Brun’ award, Académie des Sciences, France
1995 ‘PhD award’, Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble, France
SUPERVISION OF GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWS
2010 - 2022 3 Postdocs/ 3 PhD/ 15 Master Students
Subjects: compressible convection experiments, numerics; crystallization; dynamo; decay
of Slichter modes; thermo-solutal convection; penetrative convection;
Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon, France
2003 - 2010 1 PhD/ 7 Master Students
Subject: crystallization of the Earth’s inner core; inertial waves; Alfvén waves;
Laboratoire de Géophysique Interne et Tectonophysique, Grenoble, France
1996 - 2003 2 Postdocs/ 2 PhD/ 8 Master Students
Subjects: vortex decay in Magnetohydrodynamics; experiments on transition to
turbulence in Hartmann layer; Dimensions of magnetohydrodynamic flows;
Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, United-Kingdom
1994 - 1996 1 PhD/ 2 Master Students
2D turbulence; measurement of diffusion coefficients; magnetoconvection
Laboratoire Madylam, Grenoble, France
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
2010 - 2022 Thermodynamics, Geomagnetism, Fluid mechanics / ENSL, University Lyon 1, France
2003 - 2010 Dynamics of the Earth’s core / ENSL, University Lyon 1, France
1996 - 2003 Boundary layers, Heat transfer, Turbulence, Mathematics, Laboratory work, supervisions /
Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, United-Kingdom
1991 - 1996 Fluid Mechanics Laboratory work, probability / Ecole Nationale Supérieure
d’Hydraulique et de Mécanique de Grenoble, France
FAMILY
Nathalie Revol and our three children, Malo, Antonin and Lisa
Adrar, Mauritania
