FALCON Eric - Curriculum Vitae                                                                                                                 July 2024
                                                                                               

   Université Paris Cité – CNRS (UMR 7057)                                                                                                                                   Tel.: +33 1 57 27 62 19

   Laboratory Matter and Complex Systems (MSC)                                                                                                                                 

   https://labo.msc.u-paris.fr/~falcon                                                                                                                           eric.falcon@u-paris.fr


  Researcher IDs: Google Scholar       ResearchGate       ORCID iD iconOrcid ID (0001-9640-9895)       Web of Science (N-2261-2017)    Scopus ID: 57206448826     
 
 
Bibliometry (from Google Scholar) h-index: 34; i10-index: 82; Total number of citations: 4223; Most cited article: 633;  8 articles cited more than 100 times
                 
 
List of all  publications
                    
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    Current Status

  

CNRS Senior Research Scientist (DR1) at MSC (UMR7057), Université Paris Cité CNRS
Université Paris Cité

   

    Current Research Interests

   Experimental studies on Nonlinear Physics, Wave Turbulence, Turbulence, Fluid Mechanics, Granular Media, Ferrofluid, Physics of instabilities 


    Summary

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·      10 PhD Thesis supervised

·       14 post-docs supervised

·       21 master students supervised (14 M2, 2 M1, 5 L3)


·       PI of 35 funded research projects (2.91 M€)

·       Co-PI of 17 funded research projects  (1.38 M€)

 

·          8 awards

·       27 organized conferences (13 international, 14 national)

·          9 international invited visits

 

·         99 articles in international peer-reviewed journals 20 PRL, 15 EPL, 19 PRE, 12 PRF, 5 JFM..

·        20 edited books or book chapters

·        45 conference proceedings

·        33 popularizing works

·        98 press items and articles published in media

 

·        32 invited talks in international conferences

·        35 talks in international conferences

·           10 invited talks in national conferences

·        71 invited seminars and other national presentations

    Awards

    2023-26 Simons Foundation (USA) Principal Investigator (renewal)
    2022-25 CNRS Scientific Excellence Reward
   
    2019-23 Simons Foundation (USA) Principal Investigator

    2018-21 CNRS Scientific Excellence Reward
    2016      PRE Milstone Paper from American Physical Society* 

    2014-17 CNRS Scientific Excellence Reward 

    2004      Branly Prize

   2001     CNRS Bronze Medal
   *jointly obtained with C. Coste and S. Fauve (among 50,000 papers published since the journal inception in 1993)

    Main Service and Research Management     

  - President of the Nonlinear Physics Division of the French Physical Society (SFP) since 2021
  -
President of Expert Group in Physics of CNES (French Space Agency) (2015 -2019 and Member 2010 – 2014)

  - Member of the Spatial Exploration and Research Evaluation Committee (CERES) of CNES (2017 – 2019)

  - Elected member of the ELGRA (European Low Gravity Research Association) Management Committee (2017 - 2023)
 
- General Secretary of French Committee for Physics (CFP) of French Academy of Sciences since 2012

  - Coordinator of the annual Nonlinear Physics Conference (RNL) in Paris since 2012 (200 participants)

  - Coordinator of the European network Space Grains of ESA (European Space Agency) since 2011

   - Scientific head of the ESA VipGran instrument for International Space Station (since 2017) and for Parabolic Flights (2011-2022)
   - French Delegate during the General Assembly of IUPAP (International Union of Pure and Applied Physics) in 2014 and 2021


  - Head of the
Research Group Out-of Equilibrium Dynamical Systems (DSHE) (37 people) at MSC Laboratory (2013 2021)
 
- Head of the Research Group Nonlinear Physics at MSC Laboratory since 2007
 
- Member of MSC Laboratory Board, Université Paris Cité (since 2014 - 2024 and in 2010 – 2012)


    Career and Degrees     

    2019             Appointment as CNRS Senior Scientist 1st class (DR1) - permanent position

    2011             Appointment as CNRS Senior Scientist 2nd class (DR2) - permanent position

    2008             Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches (HDR), Univ. Paris Diderot


    2002             Appointment as CNRS Associate Scientist 1st class (CR1) - permanent position

    1999             Appointment as CNRS Associate Scientist 2nd class (CR2) - permanent position


    1997 1999 Post-doc (2 years) CNES (French National Space Agency), LPS, ENS Paris

    1996 1997 Post-doc (1 year) National military service, LPMC, ENS Paris

    1993 1997 PhD Thesis at ENS Lyon, Summa Cum Laude, supervisor S. Fauve

    1993             M2 (DEA) of Statistical Physics and Nonlinear Phenomena, ENS Lyon, grade ‘‘Good’’ (rank: 2nd)

    1993             Magistère of Physics, ENS Lyon, grade ‘‘Good’’

    1990 1993 Student at ENS Lyon (M2, M1, L3)

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