Team and collaborators

Current team | Alumni | Collaborators | Collaborative projects

[see also BIOMIM@PMMH]

Current PhD students and postdocs

  • Elizabeth Gregorio, Post-doctoral project: Snake swimming hydrodynamics (funding: ANR DRAGON2 Project 2023-2025, co-advised with A. Herrel)
  • Diane Komaroff, PhD thesis: Interaction des ondes de surface avec un réseau d’obstacles mobiles : applications à la conversion d’énergie de vagues (co-advised with B. Thiria, 2023-2026)
  • Qimin Ma (马祺敏), PhD thesis: Modelling collective fish swimming with visual perturbations (co-advised with B. Thiria, 2023-2027)
  • Peng Yu (余鹏), PhD thesis: Aerodynamic and Elastic Response of Dragonfly-inspired Flapping Wings (co-advised with T. Engels & B. Thiria, 2023-2027)

Current interns and visiting students

  • Mame Diarra Dieng, BUT Mésures Physiques, IUT de Saint Denis, 2025
  • Victor Dupic-Miquel, Parcours Recherche CentraleSupélec, Université Paris Saclay, 2023-2024
  • Sam Gaborieau, M2 ICFP, 2025
  • Audrey Nathan, M1 Énergétique et Environnement, Sorbonne Université, 2025

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Alumni

Short term internship and visiting students

  • Manuel Etchevest, Visiting PhD student, Universidad de Buenos Aires, 2025
  • Xiangyuan Mi (米湘媛), Visiting PhD student, Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 2024-2025
  • Alexandre Dallot, M2 intern, ENS Paris Saclay, 2024
  • Marie Charles-Bray, M1 intern, École Centrale de Lyon, 2024
  • Supriya Karmakar, Visiting PhD student, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 2024
  • Eloi Colliau, CPES Parcours Sciences, PSL Université, 2024
  • José Carlos Muñoz Hervás (Visiting PhD student, Universidad de Jaén, 2023)
  • Diane Komaroff (M2 internship Université Paris Saclay, 2023)
  • Valentin Halbant (M1 internship Université Cergy Paris, 2023)
  • Ianis Huin-Sesnis (M1 internship ENS, 2023)
  • Paul Bernard (M2 internship ENS, 2023)
  • Mateus Gadotti Milagre (ENSTA internship, 2022)
  • Carlos García Baena (Visiting PhD Student, Universidad de Jaén, 2021)
  • Jeanne Moscatelli (M1 internship, 2021)
  • Paul Bienvenu (ESPCI 3A internship, 2021)
  • Cindy Da Costa (L3 internship, 2021)
  • Lucie Gallardo (L1 internship, 2021)
  • Mathieu Melennec (École Polytechnique, L3 internship 2021)
  • Léo Walter (ISAE-ENSMA 3rd year internship 2020)
  • Lila Séguy (ESPCI 3rd year internship 2020)
  • Rind Alhage (Ecole Polytechnique, 3A 2020)
  • Baptiste Lafoux (M2 Fluid Mechanics, SU/Ecole Polytechnique 2019)
  • Mateus Costa Guia (Ecole Polytechnique 3A 2019)
  • Alicia Giménez (SU, M1 internship 2019)
  • Delphine Fourteau (U Paris Sud, L2 internship 2019)
  • Nicolas Cattaud (U Cergy-Pontoise, L3 Physique, 2018)
  • Bill François (ENS 4th year internship, 2017)
  • Matthieu Baron (ENS Cachan L3, 2017)
  • Baptiste Ferrero (ESPCI Internship, 2017)
  • Martyna Góral (M2 Fluid Mechanics, UPMC/Ecole Polytechnique, 2017)
  • Luce-Marie Petit (M2 Biomechanical engineering, Université Paris-Saclay, 2017)
  • Hanaé Bradshaw (CRi L3, 2016)
  • Pedro Miguel Fernandes (ENSTA 2A, 2016)
  • Florian Benoit (ESPCI 3A, 2016)
  • Tùng Hà Thanh (ESPCI 3A, 2016)
  • Clément Haeck (ENS Cachan L3, 2016)
  • Gabriel Victorino Cardoso (Ecole Polytechnique 3A, 2016)
  • Camille Le Roy (M1 MNHN, Paris, 2016)
  • Jérôme Hardoüin (École Polytechnique, MSc Internship 2015)
  • Keziah Reynoso (UNAM, Mexico, MSc Internship 2014)
  • Arnaud Choux (ENS Cachan Internship 2014)
  • Lucien Causse (ENS Cachan Internship 2014)
  • Olivier Spitz (ESPCI Internship 2014)
  • Jérôme Vacher (ESPCI Internship 2014)
  • Rafael Fernández Prats (PhD visiting student, 2013)
  • Antoine Gaillard (ENS Internship 2013)
  • Prasann Jain (IIT Kharagpur, India, Internship 2013)
  • Karanvir Singh (IIT Kanpur, India, Internship 2013)
  • Gaëlle Bimbard (Visiting PhD student, IRBI, Université de Tours 2013)
  • Maxime Dana (ENSTA Internship 2012)
  • Mariana Centeno (UNAM, Mexico, MSc Internship 2012)
  • Olivia Gann (ESPCI Internship 2011)
  • Alexis Weinreb (ESPCI Internship 2011)
  • Stéphane Rakoto (UPMC MSc Intrernship 2009)
  • Jean-Yves Andro (PhD visiting student, 2008)

Current team | Alumni | Collaborators | Collaborative projects

Past and present collaborators
(in alphabetical order, if you are not on the list and you should be you should complain…)

  • Juan D’Adamo (LFD, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Buenos Aires)
  • Jean-Luc Aider (PMMH, ESPCI)
  • Guillermo Artana (LFD, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Buenos Aires)
  • Dwight Barkley (University of Warwick)
  • Paul Billant (LadHyX, Ecole Polytechnique)
  • Xavier Bonnet (CEBC, CNRS, Université de La Rochelle)
  • Chandan Bose (University of Birmingham)
  • Jérôme Casas (IRBI, Université de Tours)
  • Federico Castro-Hebrero (LFD, Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de Buenos Aires)
  • Jean-Marc Chomaz (LadHyX, Ecole Polytechnique)
  • Pablo Cobelli (UBA)
  • Steven Czitrom Baus (Centro de Ciencias de la Atmósfera, UNAM)
  • Vincent Debat (Muséum Nationale d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris)
  • Thomas Engels (ISM, CNRS, AMU, Marseille)
  • Marc Fermigier (PMMH, ESPCI)
  • Carlos García Baena (Universidad de Jaén)
  • Cándido Gutiérrez Montes (Universidad de Jaén)
  • José Halloy (LIED, Université Paris Diderot)
  • Anthony Herrel (Muséum Nationale d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris)
  • Francisco Huera-Huarte (Universitat Rovira i Vrigili, Tarragona)
  • José Ignacio Jiménez González (Universidad de Jaén)
  • Laurent Jacquin (ONERA, DAFE)
  • Dmitry Kolomenskiy (Skoltech, Moscow)
  • Frédéric Lechenault (LPS, École Normale Supérieure, Paris)
  • Gen Li (JAMSTEC, Japan)
  • Hao Liu (Chiba University, Japan)
  • Violaine Llaurens (Muséum Nationale d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris)
  • Manuel Lorite-Díez (Universidad de Granada)
  • Carlos Málaga Iguiñiz (Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM)
  • Olivier Marquet (ONERA, DAFE)
  • Arturo Olvera (IIMAS, UNAM)
  • Ramon Peralta y Fabi (Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM)
  • Gaële Perret (LOMC, Le Havre)
  • Miguel Piñeirua (PMMH, ESPCI)
  • Daniel Pradal (PMMH, ESPCI)
  • Esteban Prado (ICML, UNAM)
  • Sophie Ramananarivo (PMMH, ESPCI)
  • Veronica Raspa (PMMH, ESPCI)
  • Ranulfo Rodríguez Sobreyra (ICML, UNAM)
  • Benoît Semin (PMMH, ESPCI)
  • Catalina Stern (Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM)
  • Benjamin Thiria (PMMH, ESPCI)
  • José Eduardo Wesfreid (PMMH, ESPCI)
  • Roberto Zenit (IIM, UNAM)

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Collaborative Projects

The return to an aquatic life, the evolution of propulsive efficiency & biomimetics
DRAGON2
2020-2024 (extended to 12-2025)
PI: X. Bonnet (CEBC), Co-PI: R. Godoy-Diana (ESPCI Paris)
Agence Nationale de la Recherche (Paris, FR)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.9664681
GRANT_NUMBER: ANR-20-CE02-0010

InWAS
Innovative Wave-Absorbing Structures
2020-2023
Project funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Marie Skłodowska-Curie Grant Agreement No. 842967
Project lead: Alexis Mérigaud (MSCA Postdoc)
Supervision: R. Godoy-Diana & B. Thiria
Host lab: PMMH, UMR7636 CNRS, ESPCI Paris–PSL, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité
URL: https://blog.espci.fr/inwas/

ODOFLY
Adaptation du vol chez les libellules (Insectes Odonates)
2020-2021
PI: A. Nel, MNHN
MITI CNRS ‘Adaptation du vivant à son environnement’.

MODULO
Modélisation des structures tourbillonnaires propulsives de la nage par ondulations
2019-2020
PI : X. Bonnet, CEBC, Co-PI ESPCI: R. Godoy-Diana
Défi “Modélisation du vivant” de la Mission pour les Initiatives Transverses et Interdisciplinaires (MITI).

IRP IVMF
Ingénieries vertes par la mécanique des fluides
2019-2024
INSIS-CNRS (Coordinateur : R. Godoy-Diana)
blog.espci.fr/ivmf/

NANO FLYing vehicle based on vibrating wings control
NANOFLY
2019-2022 (extended to 06-2024)
ANR ASTRID 2019 (2020-2023),
PI: S. Grondel (IEMN), Co-PI: R. Godoy-Diana (ESPCI Paris)
Agence Nationale de la Recherche (Paris, FR)
URL: https://app.dimensions.ai/details/grant/grant.9465295
GRANT_NUMBER: ANR-19-ASTR-0023

PEPS “Ingénierie verte”
Bio-inspired wave-energy absorbers
2018
INSIS-CNRS (PI : R. Godoy-Diana).

Fluids and elasticity for biomimetic propulsion
2012-2014
PI: R. Godoy-Diana & B. Thiria
EADS Foundation (Paris, FR)

The physics of insect-inspired flapping wings
ANR ENTOMOPTER 2008
PI: R. Godoy-Diana
2008-2012
Agence Nationale de la Recherche (Paris, Paris, FR)
GRANT_NUMBER: ANR-08-BLAN-0099