Research Group: GEOMETRIC MECHANICS AND THERMODYNAMICS
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François Gay-Balmaz |
About François
François Gay-Balmaz is an Associate Professor in Mathematics at Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore, since September 2023. Previously he was a researcher at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS, France) at Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris (ENS). He received his Master (2004) and Ph.D. degrees (2009) from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL, Switzerland) and his Habilitation (2018) at Sorbonne University. He was also a PostDoc at EPFL and at the California Institute of Technology (from 2009 to 2010).
Current Research Interest
Structure-preserving discretization & learning
Variational principles in nonequilibrium thermodynamics
Geophysical fluids
Plasma physics
Quantum-classical systems
Open Positions
I welcome PhD applicants interested in my research areas.
In addition, one fully funded PhD position is currently available in the area of structure-preserving methods for plasma physics.
General information about PhD studies at NTU can be found here and here.
Editorial Activities
⭐ Special issue: Complexities: Thermodynamics and Complexity — Editors Lock Yue Chew and François Gay-Balmaz — Open for submission!