Current members
In order of arrival in my group.
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Rundong Zhou (Sept. 2020 - now; ) is a fourth-year Engineering Science student writing his senior thesis on developing spectral methods for computational fluid dynamics in polar coordinates. |
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Han Wang (Sept. 2020 - now; hannnwangus -at- gmail.com) is a post-doctoral scientist. She graduated in 2020 from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at NYU. Supported by the Canadian Space Agency, she is studying methods to disentangle internal tides from vortical flows from sea surface height signals, in preparation for the SWOT mission. |
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Jack Farrell (May 2020 - now) is a 4th-year Physics Specialist here at UofT and NSERC USRA awardee. Co-supervised with Prof. T. Scaffidi, he is studying electron hydrodynamics using numerical tools of geophysical fluid dynamics. |
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Zirui (Ellen) Wan (Jan. 2020 - now; ellen.wan -at- mail.utoronto.ca) is a 3rd-year Physics Specialist student here at UofT. First as a PHY479 research student, she has been working on the application of deep neural networks on the biogeochemical carbon cycle in the Southern Ocean. |
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Christos Papoutsellis (Jan. 2020 - now) is a post-doctoral scientist, whose principal affiliation is at the Institut de Mécanique des Fluides de Toulouse (FR), co-supervised by M. Mercier. He is developing a semi-analytical model of the internal tide radiated by arbitrary topographies. Prior to working on internal tides, he was specializing in non-linear surface wave dynamics. He earned in his doctoral degree from NTU Athens in 2016, and worked as a post-doc between the Paris area and Marseille. |
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Fabiola Trujano Jiménez (Sep. 2019 - now; ftrujano -at- physics.utoronto.ca) graduated from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in the summer of 2019. She is now a PhD student in the department of physics at UofT. She is working on understanding sub-surface submesoscale instabilities. |
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Varvara Zemskova (Aug. 2019 - now; barbara.zemskova -at- utoronto.ca) is a post-doctoral scientist. She earned her doctoral degree in 2019 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Trained as an applied mathematician and marine scientist, she specializes in theoretical and idealized numerical studies of the ocean's energy content, the dynamics of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, and submesoscale instabilities. |
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Mikhail Schee (Sep. 2018 - now; mschee -at- physics.utoronto.ca) graduated from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities as a Physics major in the spring of 2018. Now a PhD candidate in the physics department, he is interested in studying small-scale processes (double-diffusion, internal waves) in the Arctic Ocean. |
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Jeff Uncu (Sep. 2017 - now; jeffrey.uncu -at- mail.utoronto.ca) graduated from UofT as a Physics Specialist in the spring of 2018. Now working as an PhD candidate in the physics department, he studies the scattering of internal tides by geostrophic turbulence with layered shallow-water models. |
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I (Nicolas Grisouard, he/him) received my Physics B.Sc. in 2005 from the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan (since renamed ENS Paris-Saclay), and my Ph.D. in Earth, Universe and Environment Sciences in 2010 from the Université de Grenoble (since renamed Université Grenoble Alpes). I then did post-docs at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences in New York City and Stanford University in the Bay Area, until joining the Dept. of Physics at the University of Toronto in 2015. I am primarily interested in fundamental dynamics of small-scale internal waves and internal tides, their interactions with balanced (in the general sense, not limited to geostrophy) flows, and ageostrophic instabilities of submesoscale flows. |
