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Current team
- 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)
- Baptiste Lafoux, PhD thesis: Collective fish swimming dynamics in confined geometries and altered flows (co-advised with B. Thiria, 2020-2023)
- Alexis Merigaud, Post-doctoral project: Ocean wave energy converters (funding: Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship 2020-2023)
- Gatien Polly, PhD thesis: Interaction entre ondes de surface et structures élastiques (co-advised with B. Thiria & A. Mérigaud, 2020-2023)
- Vincent Stin, PhD thesis: Dynamique des fluides de la nage des serpents (co-advised with A. Herrel & X. Bonnet, 2020-2023)
- Jishen Zhang, Post-doctoral project: Étude expérimentale d’optimisation de la voile olympique (co-advised with M. Fermigier & B. Thiria, 2022-2023)
Alumni
- Tao Liu, Thesis: Dynamics of turbulent structures in plane Couette-Poiseuille flow (co-advised with B. Semin and J. E. Wesfreid, defended on January 27, 2022)
- Roméo Antier, Thesis: Ailes battantes inspirées de l’insecte (co-advised with B. Thiria, 2018-2021, defended on December 15, 2021)
- Bill François, Thesis: Physique statistique de la locomotion aquatique : de la nage du poisson au mouvement collectif (co-advised with B. Thiria and F. Lechenault, 2017-2021, defended on March 30, 2021)
- Salomé Gutiérrez-Ramos, Thesis: Acoustic confinement of Escherichia coli cells and the impact on biofilm formation (defended on October 18, 2018)
- Clotilde Nové-Josserand, Thesis: Convertir l’energie de vagues à l’aide d’interactions fluide/structure (co-advised with B. Thiria and W. M. Megill, defended on October 1, 2018)
- Intesaaf Ashraf, Thesis: Interactions in collective fish swimming (co-advised with B. Thiria, defended on April 4, 2018)
- Marion Segall, Thesis: Water as a driver of evolution: the example of aquatic snakes (co-advised with A. Herrel, defended on November 10, 2017)
- Miguel Piñeirua (Postdoc funding: EADS Foundation 2014-2015, subject: Modelling undulatory swimmers)
- Sophie Ramananarivo, Thesis: Propulsion biomimétique de structures élastiques (co-advised with B. Thiria, defended on January 10, 2014)
- Verónica Raspa (Postdoc funding: Research in Paris fellow, ANR & EADS Foundation 2010-2013, subject: bio-inspired locomotion)
- Catherine Marais, Thesis: Dynamique tourbillonnaire dans le sillage d’un aileron oscillant: Propulsion par ailes battantes biomimétiques (co-advised with J. E. Wesfreid, defended on January 14, 2011)
Short term internship students
- 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)