Research
Physics : Non -Linear Systems out of Equilibrium
Statistical Properties of Fracture (Theory and Experiments) (Click here for details)
Statistical Properties of fracture (Click here for details)
Fracture precursors, acoustic emissions, phase transitions.
Thermal nucleation of microfractures
Effect of disorder on rupture
Dynamical Systems (Theory and Experiments)
Granular Matter, Fluids and Complex systems (watch some videos)
Vibrated (dry) granular matter
Wet, immersed and humid granular matter (The hydrodynamic diode)
Thermal convection
Medical Physics and Socio-Physics
Cerato-Platanin dynamics measured by AFM
Opinion dynamics in small and large groups
Gait time series analysis for non invasive, early detection of neurodegenerative diseases (Parkinson, ALS, ALS)
Collective Intelligence
Science of Education
Collective Intelligence and Multiple Intelligences
Social experiments and numerical models on collective intelligence and multiples intelligences in the educational context
Cardiac Coherence in educational context
Didactics of science
Teaching Physics by Magic (here)
Collaborative Teachers formation
Sciences didactics projects
(click here to see the Virtual Lab)
(click here to see the Methanizer)
Evaluation of the Educational System
Performance and statistical analysis for strategic planning, resource allocation and management, and for monitoring and reporting system level performance
EEG applied to Pedagogy and Education
Instructional Strategies (click here for details)
School Rhythms
Neuro-feedback for students with attention deficit
Renewable Energies
Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion
SWAC : Sea Water Air Conditioning (click here for details) (watch a video)
Ocean Mechanical Energy Conversion
Bays and Lagoons Circulation and transport.
Thermal properties of coral reef
Non-linear waves and solitons, Faraday’s instability