Welcome
I am a member of the CNRS research staff in the
Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics Group of Laboratoire d'Astrophysique de
Toulouse-Tarbes (France, UMR CNRS 5572), part of Observatoire
Midi-Pyrénées.
My research focuses on astrophysical fluid and plasma dynamics, notably
solar physics, turbulent convection, MHD and
dynamo theory, accretion disk turbulence, microinstabilities in
magnetized plasmas, and pulsations of magnetized stars.
Videos of some of my recent talks
can be found on the
ENS Lyon website (general audience solar MHD seminar) and on the
2006 IAU website (specialized talk on turbulent convection and corresponding paper).
Collaborations
- I am working with several members of the Toulouse AFD and solar and stellar magnetism groups, most notably Michel Rieutord and Thierry Roudier. Outside of LATT, my main collaborations are with
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- Alex Schekochihin from the Theoretical Physics Departement of the University of Oxford (UK),
- Steve Cowley from CCFE (UK),
- Gordon Ogilvie, Geoffroy Lesur, Michael Proctor and Mark Rosin from the Departement of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics of the University of Cambridge (UK),
- Carlo Cossu from IMFT (Toulouse),
- Pierre-Yves Longaretti from LAOG (Grenoble).
Former group
I am a former member of the Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics group at DAMTP where I was employed for two years (2005-07) as a postdoctoral research associate.