People

Current PhD students and postdocs

• 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)
• 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

Alumni

• Gauthier Bertrand, PhD thesis: Propulsion instationnaire, application à la voile de compétition (co-advised with M. Fermigier & B. Thiria, 2021-2024, defended on October 24, 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, defended on  October 11, 2024) *Guillaume was based at CEBC, working on the ANR DRAGON2 project with X. Bonnet as his main supervisor
• Camille Aracheloff, PhD thesis: Etude mécanique et aérodynamique d’ailes de libellules (Insecta Odonatoptera)  (co-advised with R. Garrouste, A. Nel & B. Thiria, 2021-2024, defended on October 10, 2024)
• Alexis Merigaud, Post-doctoral project: Ocean wave energy converters (funding: Marie Skłodowska-Curie fellowship 2020-2023)
• Baptiste Lafoux, PhD thesis: Collective fish swimming dynamics in altered flows (co-advised with B. Thiria, 2020-2023, defended on December 13, 2023)
• Vincent Stin, PhD thesis: Mesure de l’hydrodynamique de la nage des serpents (co-advised with A. Herrel & X. Bonnet, 2020-2023, defended on December 1, 2023); also post-doctoral project: Measuring the velocity field around a vibrating wing nanodrone (funding: ANR NANOFLY, 2024)
• Gatien Polly, PhD thesis: Interacions vague-structure d’une plaque flexible immergée pour la conversion d’énergie des vagues (co-advised with B. Thiria & A. Mérigaud, 2020-2023, defended on November 9, 2023)
• Jishen Zhang, Post-doctoral project: Étude expérimentale d’optimisation de la voile olympique (co-advised with M. Fermigier & B. Thiria, 2022-2023)
• 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 déformables inspirées de l’insecte et rigidifiées par un réseau de plis (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

• 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)
• 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)
• 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)
  
• 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)
• Manuel Lorite-Díez (Universidad de Granada)
• 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)