Professional profile

Since 1994: researcher at LESIA, a department of the Paris Observatory.

Main fields of interest:

• physics of plasmas (collisional and collisionless plasmas)

• fluid dynamics (compressible and incompressible)

• space and astrophysical plasmas

  • solar atmosphere and solar wind

  • planetary magnetospheres

  • environment of artificial satellites

  • gravitationally stratified plasmas

  • dynamos

  • physics of granular systems

Methods:

• • PIC simulations

  • N-body simulations (for plasmas)

  • Hydrodynamic and MHD simulations