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Jérémie Vidal (Ph.D.)
CNRS Research Scientist, LGL-TPE (ENS de Lyon - Univ. Lyon 1)
Email: jeremie [dot] vidal [at] ens-lyon [dot] fr
Brief Bio
Professional experience
From 2025: CNRS researcher (Chargé de Recherche - CR)
LGL TPE - ENS Lyon - Univ. Lyon 1 (France)
September 2020 – January 2025: Research Fellow in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
CNRS - ISTerre (France)
June 2018 – July 2020: Research Fellow in Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics
Department of Applied Mathematics - School of Mathematics - Univ. of Leeds (UK)
October 2014 – January 2018: Ph.D. student
ISTerre - Univ. Grenoble Alpes (France)
Academic background
January 2018: Ph.D. in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (Summa Cum Laude)
Supervised by Dr N. Schaeffer (CNRS) - Univ. Grenoble Alpes (France)
June 2014: M.Sc. in Geophysical Fluid Dynamics (Summa Cum Laude, rank 1)
M.Sc. internship (M2R) supervised by Dr N. Schaeffer (CNRS) - Univ. Grenoble Alpes (France)
M.Sc. internship (M1) supervised by Dr N. Gillet & Dr D. Jault (CNRS) - Univ. Grenoble Alpes (France)
Summer schools
6. Mathematical Fluid Mechanics
Institut d'Etudes Scientifiques, Cargèse (France), 01 April - 11 April 2025, [Program]
5. Physics of Wave Turbulence and Beyond
Les Houches School of Physics, Les Houches (France), September 1-6 2024 [Program]
4. New Trends in Mathematical Fluid Dynamics
Institut Fourier, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, June 5-16 2023, [Program]
3. Fluid Mechanics of Planets and Stars
Centre International pour les Sciences Mécaniques (CISM), Udine (Italy), April 17-21 2023, [Program]
2. Waves, Instabilities and Turbulence in Geophysical and Astrophysical Flows (WITGAF)
Institut d'Etudes Scientifiques, Cargèse (France), July 8-19 2019, [Program]
1. Doctoral Training: Solid Earth
Les Houches School of Physics, Les Houches (France), October 6-17 2014, [Program]
Fellowships & other grants
August 2020: ERC THEIA Fellowship (successful), grant #847433
Application for a funded postdoctoral position (CNRS)
June 2018: F.R.S.-FNRS Fellowship (PI, not awarded), F.R.S.-FNRS Application # 32760781
Application for a postdoctoral research position (CR - Chargé de recherches)
Topic: Understanding Planetary Core Flow Dynamics from Nutations (CoreNut)
May 2018: FSR Fellowship, (PI, awarded but declined), FSR Incoming Post-doc Fellowships
Application for a postdoctoral position with Prof. V. Dehant (Royal Observatory of Belgium)
Topic: Understanding Planetary Core Flow Dynamics from Nutations (CoreNut)
January 2018: STFC Fellowship (successful), grant #ST/R00059X/1
Application for a funded postdoctoral position (University of Leeds)
May 2015: Grant for international mobility (PI, awarded, 3000 €), Collaboration with R. Hollerbach (University of Leeds)
Funded by ED STEP & Labex OSUG@2020 (France)
January 2015: Local Scientific Grants, (PI, awarded), Co-organizer of the scientific event Tribulations Savantes 2015 in Grenoble
Funded by Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA) & Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Grenoble (OSUG), France
July 2014: Ph.D. Fellowship (PI, awarded), Ministère de l’Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche (France)
Writing of a competitive national grant
Administrative tasks
April 9-11 2024: Mini-Symposium (MS) "Geometrical optics stability analysis, micoloclal analysis and applications in geo- and astrophysical fluid dynamics", British Applied Mathematics Colloquium (BAMC),
Co-organisor & co-chair of the MS with Prof. O. K. Kirrilov (Northumbria University) and Dr D. Ratliff. [Program]
Volunteer reviewer (2 papers/y) in Fluid Mechanics, Geophysics & Astrophysics. See my WoS profile
April 2015: Co-organizer of the scientific event Tribulations Savantes
Funded by Universite Grenoble Alpes (UGA) & Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Grenoble (OSUG). This is a scientific event intended for high school and undergraduate students. More than 300 pupils/students attended to the event in 2015! Further details here.
Co-organiser of the Ph.D. student congress (ISTerre). June 4-5 2015, Arvillard (France). [Program]
Ph.D. student representative (ISTerre, 2014 - 2015)
Scientific Outreach
October 2017: Results from our PRL paper discussed in a Youtube scientific video (timecode 7:55) from Science Etonnante
September 2017: Cover of JGR Planets (Volume 122, Issue 9)
September 2017: CNRS communication for our PRL paper
2017: Our paper on MHD propulsion cited on the collaborative encyclopedia Wikipedia
Thesis - Reports
3. Vidal J., 2018, Orbital forcings of a fluid ellipsoid. Inertial instabilities and dynamos
Ph.D. thesis, University Grenoble Alpes (France), PDF (in English)
2. Vidal J., 2014, Stratification at the core-mantle boundary: effects on quasi-geostrophic eigenmodes
M.Sc. thesis (M2R), University Grenoble Alpes (France), PDF (in French)
1. Vidal J., 2013, Quasi-geostrophic inertial waves in times series of magnetic observatories
M.Sc. report (M1), University Joseph Fourier (Grenoble, France), PDF (in French)
Current collaborators (alphabetical order)
De T. Alboussière, CNRS Senior Scientist, LGL-TPE (France)
Dr D. Cébron, CNRS Research Scientist, ISTerre (France)
Dr Y. Colin de Verdière, Emeritus professor, UGA (France)
Dr S. Labrosse, Professor, ENS de Lyon (France)
Dr J. Noir, Senior Scientist, ETH Zürich (Switzerland)
Dr N. Schaeffer, CNRS Research Scientist, ISTerre (France)
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