François Gallaire obtained his engineering degree from the Ecole Polytechnique in Paris in 1998 and a Master's degree in "Physics of Liquids" from the Université Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris in 1999. He then joined the Laboratoire d'Hydrodynamique (LadHyX) at the Ecole Polytechnique, where in 2003 he defended a thesis on the instabilities of rotating jets and the control of vortex bursting under the supervision of Jean-Marrc Chomaz. In 2003, he was appointed CNRS research fellow at the J.A. Dieudonné Laboratory at the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis, before joining the EPFL in 2009 to found the Fluid Mechanics and Instabilities Laboratory (LFMI).
His research focuses on the fundamental stability properties of fluid flows and is guided by real-world applications, in particular flow control. Recently, he has made major contributions in the fields of micro-fluidics (analysis of laser manipulation of a drop in a micro-channel) and bio-fluid dynamics (mechanical description of the abdominal aortic aneurysm).
30 November 2023