Christophe Gissinger Associate professor at Ecole Normale Superieure (ENS Paris)
NEWS :
10/2024.  
Daniel Guinier Award: Marlone Vernet has been awarded the SFP Grand Prize for a PhD Thesis.
Congratulations to Marlone ! Click here for mor informations.
06/2024.  
Liquid-liquid thermoelectricity
Our article Thermoelectricity at a gallium–mercury liquid metal interface has been published in PNAS. In an experimental study, we report the first evidence of a thermoelectrical effect at the interface between two metals that are liquid at room temperature, gallium and mercury. The liquid nature of the interface leads to an abnormally high current density and thermoelectric pumping of the fluid. This recent discovery paves the way for new thermoelectric cooling systems and liquid metal battery technologies.
Click here for a news story by IEEE Spectrum and
click here for a commentary published by PNAS.
10/2023.  
PhD defense of Marlone Vernet
Congratulations to Marlone !
01/2023.  
Why do the cores of stars spin more slowly than expected?
Our article Spin-down by dynamo action in simulated radiative stellar
layers has been published in Science. In a numerical model
reproducing a stellar interior, we have shown that a subcritical
generation of a magnetic dynamo can transport very efficiently the
angular momentum in stars. Click here for a news story by Scientific American and
click here for a news story by CNRS.
09/2022.  
An accretion disk in the laboratory
By driving a liquid metal with a magnetic field and electric
currents, we have obtained the first laboratory model of a
turbulent Keplerian accretion disk. See how this experiment
predicts the amount of angular momentum carried by turbulence
around black holes and protostars in
our recent PRL study.. Click here for
a new story by APS and here for an interview by ENS on this topic.
02/2021.  
Popular Science conference at ESPG
Wide-audience conference on: a magnetically-driven equatorial jet in Europa's ocean (laboratory experiments)
⇒Conference link.
09/2020.  
New M2 Mathematical Modeling and Macroscopic Physics
Opening of the new PSL master program 'M3P' offering courses in macroscopic physics, thermodynamics out of equilibrium, fluid dynamics, non-linear waves and patterns generated by instability.
More informations here.
10/2020.  
Nomination at Institut Universitaire de France
It is a great honor to be nominated as a junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France (IUF) !
⇒Go to website.
03/2019.  
A magnetically-driven equatorial jet in Europa's ocean
Our paper on the oceans of Jupiter's moons has been published in
Nature Astronomy.
09/2019.  
Michael Pereira is now assistant professor at Arts et Metiers
Congratulations to him !
09/2019.  
ANR Grant on energy transformations and MHD instabilities.
Thank you to the French National Agency for funding my project for the next five years.
12/2018.  
PhD defense of Michael Pereira
Congratulations to Michael !
11/2018.  
Habilitation HDR
I thank the jury of my HDR for the delivery of this habilitation to
direct research.
11/2016.  
PhD defense of Florence Marcotte
Congratulations to Florence !
09/2013.  
ANR Grant on electromagnetic pumps
I received an ANR grant for the next 3 years !