Research
2023- present. Associate Professor, Princeton University, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and High Meadows Environmental Institute, USA. July 2018. Visiting Professor, Joliot Curie Chair, ESPCI, Paris, France. 2018- present. Affiliated faculty, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Princeton University. 2018- present. Affiliated faculty, Princeton Material Institute PRISM, Princeton University. 2017- present. Assistant Professor, Princeton University, Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and High Meadows Environmental Institute, USA. 2013-2016. Postdoctoral researcher with Ken Melville, at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, USA. 2010-2013: PhD with Eric Falcon at the MSC Lab, Universite Paris Diderot, France.
2008: Visiting student researcher at NIWA, Wellington, New Zealand, with Stephane Popinet. Education
2010-2013: PhD in Physics, with Eric Falcon at the MSC Lab, Universite Paris Diderot, France.
2006-2010: BSc and MSc in Physics, at Ecole Normale Superieure and Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France. Awards
2023. Francois Frenkiel award, 2023 from the American Physical Society, Division of Fluid Dynamics.
2023. Graduate Mentoring Award, from the Princeton University McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning and Graduate School.
2021. American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics 2021, Milton Van Dyke Award.
2021. Alfred Rheinstein faculty award from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Princeton University.
2019. National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award.
2010. PhD Fellowship from the French Ministry of Research (3 years).
Grants and Projects
2023-2026. NSF Physical Oceanography. A direct modeling approach to momentum, heat and mass at the ocean atmosphere interface at high wind speed.
2023-2026. NSF CBET. Direct numerical simulations of droplet break-up in turbulence in inertial and viscous regimes.
2023-2026. NASA Wind Vector Science Team. High fidelity modeling of parasitic capillary wave dynamics for remote sensing. In collaboration with Tom Farrar (WHOI) and Bertrand Chapron (Ifremer, France).
2022-2023. SEAS Innovation Grant.
2022. Sub-contract from COMFRE Iowa State on simulations of drop break-up in turbulence, with Rodney Fox (Iowa State).
2021-2022. Metropolis Fund to study particles transport in turbulent boundary layer
2021-2023. HMEI Grand Challenge on environmental impact of offshore wind farm (in collaboration with Michael Mueller, Elie Bou-Zeid and Marcus Hultmark).
2021-2022. Andlinger Center Grant on offshore wind farm (in collaboration with Michael Mueller, Elie Bou-Zeid and Marcus Hultmark at Princeton University).
2020-2022. Princeton Catalysis Initiative. Gas exchange at the ocean-atmosphere interface (in collaboration with Laure Resplandy at Princeton University)
2019-2024. NSF CAREER Award. Bubble fragmentation in turbulence. CBET program.
2019-2020. SEAS Princeton Innovative fund.
2019-2020. American Chemical Society, Petroleum Research Fund. Break-up and transport of oil droplets by shear and turbulence.
2018-2023. Cooperative Institute Princeton-NOAA GFDL. On Gas transfer and sea spray fluxes parameterization at the ocean atmosphere interface (yearly renewal).
2017-2019. Urban Grand Challenge, Princeton Environmental Institute. Extreme waves in coastal environments (150k$).
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