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François Gallaire earned an engineering degree from the École Polytechnique in 1998 and a master’s in Liquids Physics from Université Pierre et Marie Curie in 1999. He completed his PhD in 2002 at LadHyX, focusing on swirling flow instabilities and vortex breakdown. After six years in the Mathematics department at Université de Nice, he joined EPFL in 2009, founding the Fluid Mechanics Instabilities Lab (LFMI). He became an associate professor in 2016 and served as the teaching department director from 2018 to 2023. In 2019, he was named a fellow of the American Physical Society. His research focuses on instability theory and free interface phenomena in microfluidics, with an emphasis on a fundamental description of these phenomena.
École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne • Lausanne
Founding member of the Fluid Mechanics Instabilities Lab (LFMI) and served as the teaching department director.
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