People

Current PhD students and postdocs

  • Camille Aracheloff, PhD thesis: Adaptation and biophysics of flight for dragonflies (co-advised with R. Garrouste, A. Nel & B. Thiria, 2021-2024)
  • Gauthier Bertrand, PhD thesis: Propulsion instationnaire, application à la voile de compétition (co-advised with M. Fermigier & B. Thiria, 2021-2024)
  • Guillaume Fosseries*, PhD thesis: Transitions-retour vers la vie aquatique : cinématique ondulatoire de la nage chez les ophidiens (co-advised with X. Bonnet & A. Herrel, 2021-2024) *Guillaume is based at CEBC, working on the ANR DRAGON2 project with X. Bonnet as his main supervisor
  • Elizabeth Gregorio, Post-doctoral project: Snake swimming hydrodynamics (funding: ANR DRAGON2 Project 2023-2025)
  • 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)
  • Vincent Stin, Post-doctoral project: Measuring the velocity field around a vibrating wing nanodrone (funding: ANR NANOFLY, 2024)
  • Peng Yu (余鹏), PhD thesis: Aerodynamic and Elastic Response of Dragonfly-inspired Flapping Wings (co-advised with B. Thiria, 2023-2027)

Current interns and visiting students

  • Victor Dupic-Miquel, Parcours Recherche CentraleSupélec, Université Paris Saclay, 2023-2024
  • Eloi Colliau, CPES Parcours Sciences, PSL Université, 2023

Alumni

Short term internship students

  • 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)
  • 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)

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)
  • Gaëlle Bimbard (IRBI, Université de Tours)
  • 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)
  • Marc Fermigier (PMMH, ESPCI)
  • José Halloy (LIED, Université Paris Diderot)
  • Anthony Herrel (Muséum Nationale d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris)
  • Francisco Huera-Huarte (Universitat Rovira i Vrigili, Tarragona)
  • Frédéric Lechenault (LPS, École Normale Supérieure, Paris)
  • Gen Li (JAMSTEC, Japan)
  • Hao Liu (Chiba University, Japan)
  • Laurent Jacquin (ONERA, DAFE)
  • Dmitry Kolomenskiy (JAMSTEC, Japan)
  • Violaine Llaurens (Muséum Nationale d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris)
  • Catherine Marais (PMMH, ESPCI)
  • Olivier Marquet (ONERA, DAFE)
  • Arturo Olvera (IIMAS, UNAM)
  • Ramon Peralta y Fabi (Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM)
  • 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)