Guillaume Michel Associate professor at Sorbonne Université

Career and education

2019 - Present Associate professor Sorbonne Université
2017 - 2019 Post-doc.   Woods Hole (MA) and Santa Barbara (CA), with G. Chini
2013 - 2017 Ph.D.   École Normale Supérieure, Paris, under the supervision of F. Pétrélis and S. Fauve
2009 - 2013 École Normale Supérieure, Paris

 Free tuition, civil servant status

2013 Agrégation de physique (graduation rank: 2nd in France)

 Civil service competitive examination for a position in the public education system

2011 - 2012 M.S. in Physics of liquids and soft matter  École Normale Supérieure, Paris

 Research internship with Johann Herault, Paris

 Research internship with Debra B. Bernhardt (Searles), Brisbane

Scholarships and honors

2024 Prix Jacques Herbrand, French Academy of Sciences
2013 - 2019 Agrégé préparateur, École Normale Supérieure, Paris

 Ph.D and Post-doc position with teaching commitment (192h/y)

Feb. - June 2018 Invited at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics, Santa Barbara (CA)

 Program Planetary Boundary Layers in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Ice on Earth and Moons

Summer 2017 Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Fellowship, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (MA)

Teaching

2019 - Present 192h/y, including:

- Computational mechanics, M.S. courses and tutorial

- Fluid mechanics, Acoustics, M.S. tutorial

- Elasticity, undergraduate tutorial and practical work

2013 - 2019 192h/y, including:

- Experimental physics, M.S. practical work

- Energy transformation, M.S. tutorial

- Non-linear partial differential equations, M.S. tutorial

- Optics and thermodynamics, undergraduate courses

Peer-reviewed publications

30 peer-reviewed publications, two articles for the general public and one book: go to the publication section

Measurement campaigns

2015 - 2025 More than ten measurement campaigns conducted in a wave basin at École Centrale de Nantes
2018 - 2026 Two zero-gravity flight measurement campaigns organized by CNES

Service

Journal referee for Physical Review Letters, Physical Review E, Physical Review Applied, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Physics Letters A, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, Emergent Scientist and Fluids