Thomas Le Reun

Contact

IRPHÉ UMR 7342

Technopôle de Château-Gombert

49, rue Joliot Curie - B.P. 146

13384 Marseille Cedex 13, France

lereun@irphe.univ-mrs.fr

Research

I am currently a PhD student at IRPHÉ under the supervision of Benjamin Favier and Michael Le Bars. My research focuses on understanding the flows created by tides in planetary cores (see task 3: The fluid dynamics of core rotation). I have been part of the team since April 2016.

Education

2015-2016: MS (second year), Physics, ENS Lyon.

2013-2014: MS (first year), Physics, ENS Lyon.

2012-2013: BS, Physics, ENS Lyon.

Previous research experience

2016: Non-linear saturation of the elliptical instability, idealized model and wave-vortex interactions

MSc research internship, IRPHÉ (Marseille).

2014: Spreading of laccoliths by fracturing, an experimental analogy

MSc research internship, BP Institute (Cambridge, UK)

2013: Convection and isentropic gradient in Xénon under hyper-gravity

BSc research internship, LGLTPE (Lyon)