Academic Profile : Faculty

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Assoc Prof François Gay-Balmaz
Associate Professor, School of Physical & Mathematical Sciences
F. Gay-Balmaz is an Associate Professor in Mathematics at 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 (2009-2010).
Geometric methods in fluid dynamics and elasticity
Structure preserving discretization
Variational principles in nonequilibrium thermodynamics
Geometry and modeling of quantum-classical systems
 
  • Fusion Science for Clean Energy
  • Geometry for fluid dynamics: modeling, numerics, and thermodynamics
Awards
Dommer prize for excellence in 2004 (1st rank among all EPFL graduates)
 
Courses Taught
MH3600: Topology and Manifolds
MH3702 & PH3409: Geometric Methods in Mathematical Physics