Stéphane Zaleski

Stéphane Zaleski is Professor at Sorbonne Université in the Jean Le Rond d'Alembert Institute.

He studied for his doctorate at the Physics Department of Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris. In 1992 he joined the Laboratoire de Modélisation en Mécanique which later became the Jean Le Rond ∂’Alembert Institute.

He investigates various numerical methods for the simulation of multiphase flow with applications for atomization, cavitation, porous media flow, boiling, hydrometallurgy and droplet impact. He currently investigates several variants of the Volume of Fluid method for interface tracking and the phase field method for interface tracking. He has written several computer codes for the simulation of two-​phase flow including PARIS Simulator with R. Scardovelli and G. Tryggvason and he participates in the development of the Basilisk code.

He is Associate editor of the Journal of Computational Physics and of Computers and Fluids. He created with Patrick Huerre a PhD and Master degree program in Fluid Mechanics taught entirely in English, a rarity at a French University. He received the Victor Noury prize of the Paris Academy of Sciences and the Silver Medal of CNRS; he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society.