IRD Researcher at LEGOS, Toulouse
Co-Director of LOTUS international joint laboratory, USTH, Hanoi, Vietnam
Head of ECOLA team, LEGOS
Scientific advisor at IRD in charge of « Coast and Sea » Community of Knowledge
Diplomas
– 2020 : HDR, Toulouse III University. PDF of HDR thesis here
– 2007 : Ph.D, Toulouse III University. PDF of PhD thesis here
– 2004 : M.S, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
– 2003 : M.S, ENSTA
– 2001 : B.S, Ecole Polytechnique
Scientific activities
My main interest concerns the understanding of regional marine systems, based on the development and use of regional ocean hydrodynamic models, coupled with biogeochemical, atmospheric and sediment transport models, and used jointly with in-situ and satellite observations. My research activity mainly focuses on :
– the physical processes involved in the functioning of ocean dynamics in regional marine systems,
– the response of dynamics to different factors of variability at all scales,
– the influence of dynamics on the cycle of matter.
My two main areas of study are the Mediterranean Sea and the South China Sea.
PhD students
– Since 2022 : Adrien Garinet. Mixing of water masses in the South East Asia seas : role of fine scale processes
– Since 2021 : Juliette Pénicaud. Sediment transport in the Red River estuary-Gulf of Tonkin continuum
– Since 2021 : Nguyen Thi Hue. Air-sea fluxes in South East Asia in global and regional coupled models
– Since 2020 : Quentin Desmet. An ocean-atmosphere regional coupled model study of South East Asia atmosphere and ocean dynamics
– 2018-2022 : To Duy Thai. Interannual to intraseasonal variability of the South Vietnam Upwelling. Roles of wind and intrinsic variability
– 2016-2020 : Trinh Bich Ngoc. Water, heat and salt cycles in the South China Sea, from seasonal variations to inter annual variability : a high resolution closed budget modeling study
– 2016-2019 : Violaine Piton. From the Red River to the Gulf of Tonkin: hydrodynamics and sediment transport along the estuary – coastal zone continuum
– 2014-2018 : Nguyen Dac Da. The interannual variability of the South Vietnam Upwelling : contributions of atmospheric, oceanic, hydrologic forcing and the ocean intrinsic variability
– 2013-2016. Robin Waldman. Multi-scale study of ocean deep convection in the Mediterranean Sea : from observations to climate modelling