List of ongoing PhD theses I supervise with some of my colleagues, and of the PhD theses defended since 2013 which I supervised or co-supervised.
Ongoing PhDs
Vincent Pilorget (co-supervision with A.G. Filippini) : global storm surge models for very long term inundation simulations. PhD started in January 2023, BRGM and ANR LAGOON
Maxime Janin (co-supervision with P. Heinrich) : high order methods for tsunami propagation. PhD started in November 2024, funding by CEA
Defended PhDs
Bastien Jouy, PhD defended in October 2024 (co-supervision with D. Violeau) : section averaged models for (dispersive) bore propagation in channels. PhD thesis. Currently: permanent research staff at EDF
Aurore Cauquis, PhD defended in November 2022 (co-supervision with P. Heinrich) : high order Lax-Wendroff finite differences for Boussinesq equations.
Mirco Ciallella, PhD defended in September 2022 (co-supervision with R. Paciorri and A. Bonfiglioli) : bridging shock fitting and embedded methods to handle shock waves in hyperbolic systems. Currently: assistant professor, Université Paris Cité.
Giulia Bellezza, PhD defended in September 2022 (co-supervision with G. Vignoles and G. Couegnat) : multi scale modelling for self-healing composite materials. Currently: R&D engineer at Astradyne space.
Sixtine Michel, PhD defended in March 2022: linearly stable and well balanced mass matrix free stabilized continuous finite elements for shallow water simulations. Currently: assistant professor at ESILV
Umberto Bosi, PhD defended in June 2019 (co-supervision with A.P. Engsig-Karup and C. Eskilsson): depth averaged spectral element modelling of wave-structure interaction. Currently: postdoc fellow at UPPA
Luca Arpaia, PhD defended in September 2017 (co-supervision with P. Bonneton) : ALE residual distribution and finite volumes and adaptive mesh movement on the sphere for tsunami simulations. Currently: CNR researcher at ISMAR in Venice.
Andrea Gilberto Filippini, PhD defended in December 2016 (co-supervision with P. Bonneton): unstructured mesh depth averaged numerical modelling of non-hydrostatic free surface flows. Currently: permanent research staff at BRGM in Orléans.
Leo Nouveau, PhD defended in December 2016 (co-supervision with H. Beaugendre and C. Dobrzynski): adaptive unstructured grid immersed boundary methods for compressible flow-rigid body interaction. Currently: assistant professor at INSA Rennes.
Stevan Bellec, PhD defended in October 2016 (co-supervision with M. Colin) : discrete asymptotic modelling of non-hydrostatic free surface flows. Currently: professor of classes préparatoires.
Gregory Perrot, PhD defended in December 2015 (co-supervision with G. Vignoles) : numerical modelling of the healing mechanism in self healing ceramic matrix composites. Currently: developer at BOA Concept.
Stefano D’angelo, PhD defended in March 2015 at VKI/ULB (co-supervision with H. Deconinck) : Adjoint-based error estimation for adaptive Petrov-Galerkin finite element methods with application to inviscid compressible flows. Currently head of advance analytics at ING
Damien Genet, PhD defended in December 2014 (co-supervision with A. Guermouche) : design of a highly parallel finite element platform for fluid dynamics. Currently head of cyber security department SOLENT.
Dante DeSantis, PhD defended in December 2013 (co-supervision with R. Abgrall) : development of high order residual distribution schemes for RANS models. Currently: team leader – senior developer at SIMSCALE
