Dr Adrien Lefauve

College positions: Senior Research Fellow, Acting Director of Studies in Earth Sciences, College Lecturer in Mathematics

University position: NERC Independent Research Fellow

Subject: Mathematics

E-mail:

lefauve@damtp.cam.ac.uk

Tel:

01223764053

Dr Adrien Lefauve obtained a first MSc in Mechanical Engineering from Université de Technologie de Compiègne (France), which included two years abroad: first at the Technical University of Vienna (Austria), then at the German Aerospace Centre in Stuttgart (Germany), and finally at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA), where he wrote his thesis on the numerical simulation of collective motion of active swimmers in viscous suspensions. He obtained a second MSc in Fluid Mechanics from Ecole Polytechnique (France), where he wrote his thesis on the propagation and mixing of internal tidal waves in the deep ocean.

From there he moved to the G. K. Batchelor Laboratory of Fluid Dynamics in Cambridge and obtained a PhD in the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics. His thesis focussed on the waves and turbulence found in stratified shear flows, using a combination of experimental, theoretical and numerical approaches. Since then, he has been expanding on this exciting research programme, whose ultimate goal is to better understand the complex mathematics and physics of mixing in fluids that are layered in density, such as ocean currents of different temperature or salinity. More recently, he also developed an interest in decompression sickness, using hydrogels as an experimental model for soft body tissues.