Members of the Team
Jérémie Bec CNRS researcher
Holger Homann Assistant Professor 
Giorgio Krstulovic CNRS researcher 
Mamadou Cisse PhD Student
François Laenen PhD Student
Former members
Rehab Bitane PhD student
Benjamin Pergolizzi
PhD student
Samriddhi Sankar Ray Postdoc
Ewe Wei Saw Postdoc
Simon Thalabard Postdoc
Jérémie Bec
Name: Jérémie Bec
Position: CNRS researcher
Phone: +33 4 92 00 31 19
E-mail: jeremie.bec at oca.eu
Experience
- 2005– : Chargé de Recherche CNRS at the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur
- 2004: Postdoc in the Physics Department of Università La Sapienza (Rome, Italy)
- 2003: Member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton, USA)
Education
- 2002: PhD in mechanics (University P.&M. Curie, Paris)
- 1999: MD Engineering (ENSTA, Paris)
Personal webpage
Scientific Interests
Turbulence, dynamical systems, turbulent transport, out-of-equilibrium systems, inertial particles, preferential concentration, suspensions of finite-size particles.
Holger Homann
Name: Samriddhi Sankar Ray
Position: Assistant professor
E-mail: holger at oca.eu
Experience
- 2011–: Assistant professor of the University Nice-Sophia Antipolis
- 2010: Postdoc in the Laboratoire Lagrange of the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur (Nice, France)
- 2009: Postdoc Ruhr University (Bochum, Germany)
- 2008: Postdoc in the Laboratoire Lagrange of the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur (Nice, France)
Education
2007: PhD in physics (Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany)
2003: MSc Physics Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany)
Personal webpage
Scientific Interests
Hydrodynamics, Plasmas, High-Performance Computing
Giorgio Krstulovic
Name: Giorgio Krstulovic
Position: CNRS researcher
Phone: +33 4 92 00 39 76
E-mail: krstulovic at oca.eu
Experience
- 2010–2013: Postdoc in the Atmoflex team at OCA (Nice, France)
- 2010: Postdoc in the Laboratoire de Physique Statistique of ENS (Paris, France)
Education
- 2010: PhD in physics (University P.&M. Curie, Paris)
- 2006: MSc Theoretical Physics (ENS, Paris)
- 2005: MD Engineering Applied Mathematics (Universidad de Chile, Santiago)
Personal webpage
Scientific Interests
Statistical Physics, Turbulence, Dynamical systems.
Mamadou Cisse
Name: Mamadou Cisse
Position: PhD Student
Phone: +33 4 92 00 30 44
E-mail: mamadou.cisse at oca.eu
Education
- 2011: MSc in Atmospheric Phyics (University of Lyon)
- 2010: MSc in Condensed Matter Phyics (University of Lyon)
- 2008: MD in Physics and Chemistry (University Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Senegal)
Scientific Interests
Turbulent transport, particle pollutant.
François Laenen
Name: François Laenen
Position: PhD Student
Phone: +33 4 92 00 31 69
E-mail: francois.laenen at oca.eu
Education
- 2011: MSc in Phyical Sciences (University of Liège, Belgium)
Scientific Interests
Simulation and modeling in fluid dynamics.
Rehab Bitane
Name: Rehab Bitane
Former position: PhD student
E-mail: rehab at europe.com
Education
- 2012: PhD on “Transport and density fluctuations in disordered systems”
- (University of Nice, France)
- 2007: Master for Graduates in Computational Science and Super Calculus (University of Calabria, Italy)
- 2006: MD in Physics (University of Calabria, Italy)
- 2004: BSc in Physics (University of Calabria, Italy)
- 2002: Geometer diploma (Catanzaro, Italy)
Scientific Interests
Turbulent transport, particle dispersion.
Benjamin Pergolizzi
Name: Benjamin Pergolizzi
Former position: PhD student
E-mail: pergolizzi at oca.eu
Education
- 2012: PhD (University of Nice)
- 2007: MSc in Mathematics (University of Nice)
Scientific Interests
Dynamical systems, inertial particles.
Samriddhi Sankar Ray
Name: Samriddhi Sankar Ray
Former position: Postdoc
E-mail: ssray at oca.eu
Experience
- 2010–2012: Postdoc in the Laboratoire Lagrange of the Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur (Nice, France)
Education
- 2010: PhD in physics (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
- 2006: MSc Physics (Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore)
Scientific Interests
Turbulence, Statistical Physics, Transport.
Ewe Wei Saw
Name: Ewe Wei Saw
Position: Postdoc
Phone: +33 4 92 00 30 44
E-mail: ewsaw at oca.eu
Experience
- 2009–2012 : Postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (Göttingen, Germany)
Education
- 2008: PhD in physics (Michigan Tech, USA)
Scientific Interests
Turbulence, turbulent transport, turbulence-particle interactions, preferential concentration.
Simon Thalabard
Name: Simon Thalabard
Position: Postdoc
Phone: +33 4 92 00 31 69
E-mail: simon.thalabard at oca.eu
Education
- 2013: PhD in physics (CEA Saclay)
- 2009: Master in physics (ENS Lyon)
Scientific Interests
Statistical physics, out-of-equilibrium systems, turbulence.
