About me

I am currently doing my PhD in physics at the MSC laboratory of Université Paris Cité under the supervision of Adrian Daerr. Here is a tentative CV.

Research interests

I am interest in nonlinear phenomena and instabilities in physics, in particular in the context of hydrodynamics.

Academic formation

2022 - Today — PhD in physics

2022 — Admission to Agrégation de Physique : High-level competitive examination for future physics teachers for high school and preparatory classes (rank: 2/459)

2021 — Master’s degree, Applied and Theoretical Mathematics (MATH), specialization Mathematical modeling and macroscopic physics

2017 - 2022 — Physics at Ecole Normale Supérieure (Bachelor in Physics and M1 ICFP), Paris

2017 — Admission to École Normale Supérieure, via competitive exam (rank: 10/390)

Publications

Grégoire Le Lay, Sarah Layani, Adrian Daerr, Michael Berhanu, Rémy Dolbeault, Till Person, Hugo Roussille, and Nicolas Taberlet, Magnetic levitation in the field of a rotating dipole, Physical Review E, 110, 045003 (2024). PDF [Editor’s suggestion]
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.110.045003

Antoine Gaillard, Jack S. Keeler, Grégoire Le Lay, Grégoire Lemoult, Alice B. Thompson, Andrew L. Hazel and Anne Juel, The life and fate of a bubble in a geometrically perturbed Hele-Shaw channel, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 914, A34 (2021).
DOI: 10.1017/jfm.2020.844

Tania Gajardo, Mathilde Bernard, Marie Lô, Elisa Turck, Claire Leveau, Marie-Thérèse El-Daher, Alexandre Deslys, Patricia Panikulam, Constantin Menche, Mathieu Kurowska, et al., Actin dynamics regulation by TTC7A/PI4KIIIα limits DNA damage and cell death under confinement, Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, 152, 4, p949-960 (2023).
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaci.2023.06.016

Sundary Sormendi, Mathieu Deygas, Anupam Sinha, Mathilde Bernard, Anja Krüger, Ioannis Kourtzelis, Grégoire Le Lay, Pablo J. Sáez, Michael Gerlach, Kristin Franke et al., HIF2α is a direct regulator of neutrophil motility, Blood, 137, 24 (2021).
DOI: 10.1182/blood.2020007505

Teaching

Ondes

I teach a short courses on waves and wave-related phenomena for the Préparation à l’agrégation interne of Université Paris Cité.

Laser

I give tutorials on lasers to students for the 2A Génie Physique at EIDD.

International Physicist’s Tournament

I participate in the training of Université Paris Cité’s team for the french selection of the International Physicists’ Tournament.

IPhO

Member of the scientific committee of selection and training of the French team competing at the International Physics Olympiads.

Outreach

Chaotic waterwheel

I devised a small and portable chaotic waterwheel (Malkus–Lorenz like) to explain dynamical systems and chaos to the general public. Learn more…

Projects

PyPendentDrop

Open-source Python API (shipped with graphical and command line interfaces) to measure surface tension from images of pendent drops.

• Package on PyPI
• Documentation on ReadTheDocs
• Source code on GitHub

Limrendir

Limrendir is a free software that allows for viewing and saving video streams from Genicam compatible cameras using the Aravis library. It is a mashup between Aravis Viewer, which allows for user-friendly interactions with a camera including control and stream visualisation, and gevCapture, which allows for user-unfriendly recording of said stream.
It is coded in C using GTK3. The code is hosted on Github.

Tracktor

Tracktor is a statistical analysis software. It is able to compute many statistical metrics for large tracking datasets and compare the data to existing models. It renders the results in the form of publication-ready figures.
It is coded in C++ using Qt5, and Python.