Florentin Daniel's personal webpage

About me

I am currently a postdoctoral research associate at Northwestern University, working in the group of Daniel Lecoanet. Before coming to the US, I did my PhD at Ecole normale supérieure, Paris, under the supervision of Christophe Gissinger and Ludovic Petitdemange.

I am interested in various Astrophysical and Geophysical Fluid Dynamics problems, ranging from dynamo action in the radiative zone of stars to the understanding of subsurface oceans of icy moons such as Europa. My interest goes beyond magnetohydrodynamics as I also study the formation of the so-called quasi-biennial oscillation through the mixed dynamics of a stably-stratified layer and convectively unstable one. 

To conduct my research, I use a combination of direct numerical simulations (PaRoDy, MagIC, Dedalus) and low-order dynamical systems. Although the problems I study appear quite different at first, I'm particularly interested in the similarities they share concerning transport, whether the latter focuses on angular momentum or heat, having for objective to confront my results with observational data.

Some of my collaborators include Florence Marcotte, Charly Pinçon, Kévin Belkacem and Liam O'Connor.