Current members
Graduate students
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Erin Atkinson (Sep. 2022 – now; erin.atkinson -at- mail.utoronto.ca) graduated from the University of Cambridge in the summer of 2022, and are now a PhD student in the Department of Physics at UofT. They are working on the role of ageostrophic instabilities in the process of ocean frontogenesis. |
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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. Work done in collaboration with Dr. Varvara E. Zemskova (Oregon State U.). |
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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. Work done in collaboration with Drs. Erica Rosenblum (U. Toronto) and Jonathan Lilly (Planetary Sci. Institute). |
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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. |
Undergraduate students
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Haoyuan Shi (Jan. 2024 – now) is a 4th-year undergraduate mathematics and physics student at the University of Toronto. For his PHY478 research project, he is studying how ice cubes melt in rotating tanks, and what influence the salinity of the water has on the melting. Work done in collaboration with Dr. Erica Rosenblum and Tianxing Zheng (below). |
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Tianxing (Nick) Zheng (Sep. 2023 – now; nick.zheng -at- mail.utoronto.ca) is a 4th-year undergraduate Physics Specialist at the University of Toronto. For his PHY479 research project, he is studying how ice cubes melt in rotating tanks, and what influence the salinity of the water has on the melting. Work done in collaboration with Dr. Erica Rosenblum and Haoyuan Shi (above). |
Nicolas Grisouard (he/him/his)
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I 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. |
