Welcome
I am a member of the CNRS research staff in the
solar and stellar physics group of the Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et
Planétologie (IRAP, UMR CNRS 5277, Université de Toulouse), 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
(see this review talk
in Les Houches), microinstabilities in magnetized plasmas, and pulsations of magnetized stars.
Videos of some of my 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 various members of the solar and stellar physics group in Toulouse. 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.