Latest news:

December 2021

New paper on Helical turbulent nonlinear dynamo at large Rm

June 2020

Habilitation thesis manuscript available here (French)

August 2019

Les Houches lecture notes on Dynamo theories finally published !

July 2018

Major update of the review on The Sun's super granulation.

September 2016

New paper on Supergranulation and multiscale flows in the solar photosphere.

July 2016

New paper on Magneto rotational dynamo chimeras.

February 2016

New paper on Collisionless plasma dynamo.

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Nov 14, 2022

Welcome

I am a member of the CNRS research staff, and currently head of the galaxies, high-energy astrophysics and cosmology group at the Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP, UMR CNRS 5277, Université de Toulouse), part of Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées. My research focuses on astrophysical fluid, plasma and magnetic phenomena in astrophysical systems ranging from the Sun to clusters of galaxies.

To get a flavour of the research topics I'm into, you may be interested in browsing through the slides of these tutorials on dynamo theory (review/lecture notes for J. Plasma. Phys. recently published here) and MHD and plasma turbulence in accretion disks given at Les Houches winter schools. Also check out this general audience conference on Chaos and Turbulence given at the Estivales de la Malepere (Aude, France).

Academic timeline

I completed a PhD in the former astrophysics laboratory of Toulouse in 2004, and after that worked for two years (2005-07) as a postdoctoral research associate in the Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics group of DAMTP (University of Cambridge). I was hired at CNRS in 2007 and have been working in IRAP Toulouse since.

Collaborations

My main collaborations are with

PhD students

I am currently supervising the PhD thesis of Jean Kempf (IRAP). I formely supervised the PhD theses of Subendhu Rawat (IMFT) and Antoine Riols (IRAP) with Carlo Cossu.