People

Present

Klebbert Andrade

Klebbert — PhD student at Saint Gobain Research Paris with Pierre Jop — is visiting the lab for 3 months to work on the mixing of suspension blobs.

Aubin Archambault

Aubin is working as a Post-doc, co-advised with Joël Marthelot and Olivier Pouliquen, on the collective behavior of active fibers, since February 2024.

Hector Urra

Hector, from Santiago Chile, is working as a Post-doc on the breakup of a suspension jet, since September 2023.

Ilaria Castaldi

Ilaria has started her PhD, co-advised with Bloen Metzger and as part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie ITN CoPerMix Project on Sept. 2021. She works on the mixing of liquids of unequal viscosity..

Her thesis can be downloaded here.

Alumni

Alexis Bougoin

Alexis did a 24 month Post-doc (2022-24), co-advised with Bloen Metzger and Yoël Forterre and in collaboration with Pascal Boustingorry from Chryso Saint-Gobain company, on the flow of a shear-thickening suspension through a pipe.

Jan Siemen Smink

Jan Siemen, PhD student at Twente Univ. under the supervision of Claas-Willem Visser, has been visiting the lab for 3 months by the end of 2023, to work on jelling jets.

Fransisco Melo da Rocha

Chico has done a 24 month Post-doc (2022), co-advised with Bloen Metzger and Yoël Forterre, on the dynamics of jamming and the drag in a shear-thickening suspension.

Now Post-doc with Olivier Pouliquen (at IUSTI, still).

Baptiste Darbois-Texier

Baptiste has done a 18 month Post-doc (2020), co-advised with Yoël Forterre and Bloen Metzger, on the flow of a shear-thickening suspension down an incline.

Now CNRS Researcher at FAST lab in Orsay, Paris.

Régis Turuban

Régis did a 1 year Post-doc (2019), co-advised with Bloen Metzger, on mixing in a sheared suspension.

Now Post-doc in Trieste, Italy, with Antonio de Simone.

Sergio Palma

Sergio did a 18 month Post-doc (2019) on the coating flow with a particulate suspension.

Now Assistant Professor at Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria, Santiago, Chile.

Loren Jørgensen

Loren did a 18 month Post-doc (2018), co-advised with Yoël Forterre, on the impact dynamics of a concentrated suspension drop.

Now CNRS Research Engineer at SIMM lab, ESPCI, Paris.

Mathieu Souzy

Mathieu did a 1 year Post-doc (2017), co-advised with Bloen Metzger and Tanguy Le Borgne on mixing and dispersion in a porous medium.

Now INRAE Researcher at RECOVER lab, Aix-en-Provence.

Joris Château

Joris has defended his PhD, co-supervised with Élisabeth Guazzelli, 'Fragmentation of a particulate suspension' in 2018. His thesis can be downloaded here.

Now Expert Rheologist for Rheonis, a process/rheology consultancy company in Grenoble.

Interns

Bruno Weber

Bruno, from Bremen Germany, did a 4 month L3 internship (winter 2023), co-supervised with Ilaria Castaldi and Bloen Metzger, on the mixing of liquids with unequal viscosity.

Héléna Kochman

Héléna, from École Centrale Marseille, did a 2 month M1 internship (summer 2023), co-supervised with Joël Marthelot, on the dynamics of an active fiber.

Hugo Desbois

Hugo, from École Polytech Marseille, did 2 month M1 internship (summer 2023), co-supervised with Ilaria Castaldi and Bloen Metzger, on the mixing of liquids with unequal viscosity.

Basile Giguet

Basile, from École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, did a 2 month L3 internship (summer 2023), co-supervised with Alexis Bougouin and Bloen Metzger, on the dambreak flow of a shear-thickening suspension.

Imene Terchi

Imene, from Aix-Marseille 'Fluids & Solids' M2 did a 5 month internship (spring 2022), co-advised with Bloen Metzger and Yoël Forterre, on the drag of a sphere in a shear-thickening suspension.

Léonard Maume

Léonard Maume from École Centrale Marseille did a 4 month M1 internship (spring 2022) on the break-up of a suspension jet.

Victor Piard

Victor, from École Centrale Marseille did a 2 month M1 internship (summer 2022), co-advised with Joël Marthelot, on programming fibers of shape memory alloys.

Laurence Leclef

Laurence, from École Polytech Marseille did a 2 month M1 internship (summer 2021), co-supervised with Joël Marthelot, on the 'Expansion of Poplar Cotton upon Drying'.

Benoit Villard

Benoit, from Institut National des Sciences Appliquées, Rouen, did a 2 month M1 internship (summer 2021), co-supervised with Bloen Metzger, on the 'Mixing between Liquids with Different Viscosities'.

Edwyn Guérineau

Edwyn, from Aix-Marseille Univ. did a 2 month L1 internship (summer 2018) on the 'Silo Discharge of a Shear-Thickening Suspension'.

Malek Harb

Malek, from Lebanese University, Beirut, did a 4 month M1 internship (spring 2017) on 'Dip-coating a Solid using a Suspension'.

Thomas Chabannon

Thomas, from École Normale Supérieure, Paris, did a 1 month L3 intersnship (summer 2016) on the 'Coalescence of Suspension Drops'.