Welcome !

I am currently holding a Chargé de Recherche (tenured researcher) position at Laboratoire Navier near Paris. This lab is affiliated with Université Gustave Eiffel (my primary affiliation), the CNRS and the ENPC. I study how bubbles and particles behave under flow in simple and complex fluids. Bubbles and particles are a lot alike, but they differ in the sense that bubbles are very sensitive to sound waves. Exploiting these properties allows us to probe - or if we are not nice, damage - their surroundings.



Bubble Dynamics (dissolution, inflation, shape oscillations) in a model transparent yield-stress fluid (Carbopol),
from B. Saint-Michel & V. Garbin, Soft. Matt. (2020)

My previous work

  • Postdoc at TU Delft and Imperial College London (2018-2021) in the group of Valeria Garbin. We used ultrasound on single bubbles to study and disrupt the structure of complex fluids.

  • Postdoc at the laboratoire de Physique de l’Ens de Lyon (2015-2018) with Sébastien Manneville and Thomas Gibaud, in a collaboration with the Laboratoire du Futur (U. Bordeaux & Solvay). We studied there how concentrated - and sometimes shear-thickening - suspensions flow combining insights from ultrasound echography and X radiography.

  • Postdoc at IRPHÉ in Marseille (2013-2014), studying how colloidal suspensions self-organise during directional freezing, with Alain Pocheau, Marc Georgelin and Sylvain Deville.

  • PhD student at SPEC, CEA Saclay (2010-2013), during which I researched the long-time, large-scale properties of a turbulent swirling von Karman flow in water. Under the supervision of François Daviaud and Bérengère Dubrulle.

Brice Saint-Michel

  • (2013) Ph.D., Sorbonne U.
  • (2010) MSc, ESPCI

News

01 February, 2024

Very insightful day visiting I2M in Bordeaux and presenting my results there !

21 November, 2023

Looking for job opportunities in the Netherlands.

24 October, 2023

Presenting some preliminary results on bubble dissolution in yield-stress fluids at the GFR 2023 in Paris !

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